【正文】 。m Br inksl ey Meers, and my other name is Glor ia Gl eam . Now you get out of her e f ast !39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a li ght passenger pl ane f lew off cour se som e ti me ago, i t cr ashed i n the m ount ai ns and it s pi lot was kil led. The onl y pa senger s, a young woman and her two baby daught er s, wer e unhur t. I t was the mi ddle of wi nt er. Snow l ay thick on t he ground. The wom an knew that the near est vi lage was miles away. When it gr ew dark. she turned a suit case int o a bed and put t he chi ldr en inside i t, cover ing t hem wi th al t he clothes she could fi nd. Dur ing t he night, it got ter ri bly cold. The woman kept as near as she coul d t o the chil dren and even tr ied t o get i nto t he case herself , but it was t oo smal l. Ear ly , next mor ni ng she hear d planes passi ng overhead and wonder ed how she coul d send a si gnal. Then she had an idea. She stamped out the let ters39。 SOS39。 in t he snow. Fort unat el y, a pil ot saw t he si gnal and sent a message by r adi o t o the nearest own. It was not long before a hel icopter ar ived on t he scene to r escue the sur vi vor s of the pl ane cr ash. Lesson76 Apri l Fool s Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our speci al news bull et in, 39。 said t he voi ce of the t el evi si on announcer ,39。 we ar e taking you t o t he macar oni f ields of Calabri a. Macar oni has been gr own i n thi s ar ea for over si x hundr ed year s. Two of the leading gr ower s, Gi useppe Moldova and Ri cardo Br abante, tel l me that they have been expect ing a splendid cr op thi s year and har vest ing has begun earl ier than usual . Her e you can see t wo wor ker s who, bet ween them, have j ust f ini shed cutt ing t hr ee car t loads of gol den br own m acaroni stalks. The whol e vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hr eshi ng thi s year39。s crop befor e the September rai ns. On t he ri ght, you can see Mr s Br abante her self . She has been hel pi ng her husband for t hir ty years now. Mr s Br abante i s tal king t o the m anager of t he local f act or y wher e the crop is procesed. Thi s last scene shows you what wi l happen at the end of the harvest : t he famous Calabr ian macaroni eat ing peti ti on ! Signor Fr atel i, t he pr esent champi on, has won i t every year since 1961. And t hat ends our speci al bull etin for t oday, Thur sday, Apri l 1st . We are now ret urning you t o t he st udi o.39。 Lesson77 A sucessf ul operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The m ummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mumm y is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Temple of Thebes. As ther e were st range marks on t he Xr ay plates t aken of t he mummy, doct ors have been t ryi ng to fi nd out whether the wom an died of a r ar e disease. The onl y way t o do thi s was to operat e. The operati on, whi ch lasted f or over four hours, pr oved to be ver y dif fi cul t because of the har d resin which cover ed the skin. The doct or s r em oved a secti on of t he mumm y and sent it t o a l abor at or y. They al so found som et hing whi ch the X r ay of t he god Duam utef. Thi s god whi ch has the head of a cow was nor mal y pl aced inside a mummy. The doct ors have not yet deci ded how the woman di ed. They f ear ed that he mumm y would f al t o pieces when t hey cut i t open, but f ort unatel y thi s has not happened. The mum my succesf ul ly sur vi ved the operati on. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Aft er readi ng an art icle ent itl ed 39。Ci gar et e Smoking and Your Health39。 I li t a cigaret e t o cal m m y nerves. I smoked wit h concentr ati on and pl easure as I was sure t hat t his would be my l ast cigaret e. For a whol e week I did not smoke at al and duri ng thi s ti me, my wi fe suf fered t er ibly. I had al the usual symptom s of someone giving up smoki ng: a bad t em per and an enor mous appet ite. My fr iends kept on of feri ng me ci gar et tes and cigars. They made no ef or t to hi de their amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweets f r om my pocket. Af ter seven days of t his I went to a par ty. Everybody ar ound me was sm oki ng and I f el t ext remely unf ort abl e. When my old fr iend Br ian ur ged m e to accept a ci gar et te, it was m or e t han I could bear. I t ook one gui lti ly, l it it and smoked wit h sat isf acti on. My wi fe was del ighted t hat t hi ngs had r etur ned t o norm al once more. Anyway, as Br ian poi nt ed out , it i s the easi est thi ng in the wor ld t o give up smoking. He hi msel f has done it l ots of ti mes! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機 I used t o tr avel by ai r a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ents, used to li ve in South Ameri ca and I used to fl y ther e fr om Eur ope in t he hol idays. An ai rhostess would t ake charge of me and I never had an unpleasant exper ience. I am used to t ravel ing by ai r and only on one occasi on have I ever felt f ri ghtened. Af ter taking of f, we were f lyi ng low over the ci ty and slowl y gaining height , when t he plane suddenly t urned r ound and f lew back t o the air port . Whil e we wer e wait ing t o l and, an air hostes t old us t o keep cal m and t o get of f the plane quietl y as soon as i t had t ouched down. Ever ybody on board was worr ied and we wer e cur i ous t o f ind out what had happened. Lat er we learnt that there was a ver y i mport ant person on boar d. The pol ice had been t old t hat a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Af t er we had landed, the pl ane was sear ched thoroughly. For tunately, nothi ng was found and fi ve hour s lat er we were able to t ake of f agai n. Lesson80 The Cryst al Palace 水晶宮 Per haps t he most extr aordinar y buildi ng of the nieenth centur y was the Cr yst al Pal ace, which was buil t in Hyde Par k for t he Great Exhi bit ion of 1851. The Cr yst al Pal ace was di f er ent f rom al other buil di ngs in t he worl d, f or it was mad