【正文】 She came i nt o my room yester day. 39。 she asked. 39。m ha ngi ng t hi s pi ct ur e on t he wal, 39。I t39。 She l ooked at it cr it cal y for a moment.39。s al l r ight,39。but isn39。 I looked at it again. She was r ight! It was! Leson27 A wet ni ght 雨夜 Late in t he aft er noon, the boys put up thei r t ent in the middle of a f ield. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They were al hungr y and the food smelt good. Af ter a wonderf ul meal , t hey told stori es and sang songs by t he camp fir e. But some time l at er it began to rain. The boys felt ti red so t hey pet out the fi re and crept i nt o thei r tent . Thei r sleepi ngbags were warm and fort able, so t hey al l slept soundly. I n the middl e of t he night, two boys woke up and began shouti ng. The tent was full of water! They al leapt out of t heir sleepingbags and hur ri ed outsi de. It was r ai ni ng heavil y and they f ound t hat a st ream had formed in t he f ield. The st ream wound its way acr oss the field and then f lowed r ight under t heir t ent! Lesson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper White i s one of t hose r ar e peopl e who believes in anci ent myt hs. He has just bought anew house in t he city, but ever since he moved in, he has had tr ouble wit h mot or ists. when he retur ns home at ni ght, he al ways fi nds that someone has par ked a car out si de his gat e. Because of t hi s, he has not been able to get his own car into his gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。 signs outside hi s gate, but these have not had any ef ect. Now he has put an ugl y st one head over t he gate. I t i s one of t he ugliest f aces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what it was and he t ol d me that it was Medusa, t he Gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wil tur n mot or ists to stone. But none of t hem has been t ur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 39。 i s a smal Swi s aer oplane caled a 39。. This wonder ful pl ane can car ry seven pasenger s. The most surprising thing about i t, however, is t hat it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed f ield. Captain Fawcet t39。t any i n si ght: they had al l run away! The man l aughed when he real ized what had happened. He cal led out to the chi ldren and threw t he bal back t o the bank. Leson31 Success st ory 成功者的故事 Yesterday aft er noon Fr ank Hawki ns was teli ng me about hi s exper iences as a young man. Frank is now t he head of a very l ar ge busi nes pany, but as a boy he used to work i n a smal shop. It was hi s job to repai r bicycl es and at that ti me he used to work f our teen hour s a day. He saved money f or years and in 1938 he bought a smal wor k shop of his own. Duri ng t he war Fr ank used to make spar e part s f or aer opl anes. At hat time he had t wo helper s. By the end of the war , t he smal l work shop had bee a lar ge f actory which employed seven hundr ed and t wentyeight people. Fr ank smiled when he remembered hi s hard ear ly year s and the long r oad to success. He was ti l smi ling when t he door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She wanted hi m to r epair thei r son39。 gave39。 car was badly damaged and easy t o recogni ze. Shortl y af terwards, the pol ice st opped the car and both men wer e ar rest ed. Lesson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽 Erna Har t i s going to swim across t he Engl ish Channel t omor row. She is goi ng t o set out f rom t he Fr ench coast at fi ve o39。s father wil l set out wi th her in a smal l boat . Mr Hart has t rained his daught er f or years. Tomorr ow he wi l be watchi ng her anxi ously as he swims t he l ong distance to Engl and. Erna intends t o take short r ests every t wo hours. She wi l have something to dri nk but she wi l not eat any soli d food. Most of Er na39。s mot her, who swam t he Channel her self when she was a gi rl. Lesson37 The Olympic Games 奧 林匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì) The Olympic Games wil l be hel d in our countr y in four year s39。They wil l also be buil di ng new roads and a special r ai lway line. The Games wil be held j ust outside the capital and the whol e ar ea wil l be cal led 39。. Workers wil l have pl et ed the new roads by the end of t hi s year . By t he end of next year , they wi l have f inished work on the new stadium. The fine modern buil di ngs have been desi gned by Kurt Gunt er . Ever ybody wil be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up. We are al ver y excited and are l ooking forward to t he Ol ympi c Games because they have never been held before in t hi s count ry. Leson38 Everyt hi ng except he weather 惟獨(dú)沒有考慮到天氣 My old f ri end, Har ison, had li ved in t he Mediter anean f or many year s before he returned to Engl and. He had oft en dr eamed of reti ring in England and had pl anned t o set tl e down in t he countr y. He had no sooner returned t han he bought a fine house and went to li ve t here. Almost immediately he began to pl ai n about the weather, for even though it was stil l summer , i t r ained conti nualy and it was oft en bit terly cold. Af ter so many year s of sunshine, Har ison got a shock. He act ed as if he had never li ved in Engl and bef or e. I n the end, it was mor e than he could bear. He had hardly had t ime to set tl e down when he sold t he house and left the count ry. The dream he had had for so many year s ended t here. Har rison had thought of everything except the weather . Leson39 Am I all ri ght? 我是否痊愈？ Whil e John Gilbert was in hospit al , he asked his doct or to t el l him whether his oper at ion had been succesful, but the doctor refused to do so. The f ol lowing day, t he patient asked for a bedside telephone. When he was alone, he t el ephoned the hospit al exchange and asked f or Doct or Mi li ngton. When the doctor answered the phone, Mr Gil bert said he was i nquir ing about a cer tai n pati ent, a Mr John Gilbert . He asked i f Mr Gilbert39。 No,39。 I am Mr John Gil bert