【正文】 hi m t o press his paw on t he lat ch to l et hi msel f in. Rex soon became an exper t at openi ng the gat e. However, when I was going out shopping l ast week, I noti ced him in t he gar den near t he gat e. This tim e he was bar king so t hat someone woul d l et hi m out ! Since then, he has devel oped another bad habi t. As soon as he opens the gate f r om t he out si de, he es int o the garden and wait s unti l t he gat e shut s. Then he sit s and bar ks unt il someone l ets hi m out. Af ter t hi s he immediately lets hi msel f in and begins barki ng again. Yesterday my husband removed the gate and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him since. Leson60 The fut ure 卜算未來 At a vi l age f air , I decided t o visit a f ort une tel er cal ed Madam Bel li nsky. I went i nto her tent and she t ol d me to sit down. Af ter I had gi ven her some money, she l ooked i nt o a cr yst al bal and sai d: 39。A r elati on of your s is i ng to see you. She wi l be ar ri vi ng thi s evening and i ntends to stay f or a few days. The moment you l eave t his t ent , you wi l l get a bi g surpr ise. A woman you know wel l wil l rush towar ds you. She wil l speak to you and t hen she wi l l ead you away f r om t hi s place. That is al .39。 As soon as I went outsi de, I for got al l about Madam Bel insky because my wi fe hur ri ed towar ds m e. 39。Where have you been hi ding ?39。 she asked i mpati ent ly. 39。Your sister wi l be here i n less than an hour and we must be at t he st at ion t o meet her . We ar e lat e al ready.39。 As she walked away, I f ollowed her out of t he fai r. Leson61 Troubl e wit h t he Hubbl e 哈勃望遠鏡的困境 In fut ur e, astr onaut s wil l be requir ed to descend f rom a spaceshi p whil e it i s stil l in space and t o r et urn to i t. The abil ity to do t his wi l be necessar y i n fut ure f li ght s to distant pl a s. Scienti st s are now tr yi ng t o discover if t his i s possible. The spaceshi p Astr a which l eft the eart h a short t ime ago, wil l be tr avel ing t hree hundred mi les i nt o space. At a cer tai n point, t he Ast ra wil l st op for a short t ime and an astr onaut wil l at tempt t o leave the stat ionar y spaceshi p and then r eturn to i t. We shal l not know whether the exper im ent has been successf ul unt il we have r ecei ved a r adi o message. The fi rst mesage is expect ed to ar ri ve at 7 o39。cl ock this evening. By that ti me, the Astr a wi l have been f lyi ng through space f or sevent een hour s and wil l have cir cled t he ear th a gr eat m any t im es. When t he fi rst radio mesages have been r ecei ved, the r esul ts of the t ri p wi l be announced imm edi ately. Leson62 Aft er the fi re 大火之后 Fir emen had been f ighti ng the f orest fi re f or near ly t hree weeks bef ore t hey coul d get i t under cont rol. A shor t ti me befor e, gr eat tr ees had cover ed the countr ysi de for mi les around. Now, smoke sti l r ose up f r om t he warm ground over t he desolate hi l s. Wint er was i ng on and the hil ls t hreatened the surr oundi ng vill ages wi th destr uct ion, for heavy rain would not onl y wash away the soil but would cause seri ous fl oods as wel . When t he fi re had at last been put out , the f or est authori ti es or dered sever al t ons of a speci al t ype of gr as seed which woul d grow qui ckly. The seed was sprayed over the gr ound in huge quant it ies by aer oplanes. The planes had been pla nti ng seed f or nearl y a m ont h when it began to r ain. By t hen, however , i n m any pl aces the gr as had alr eady t aken r oot. I n place of t he great tr es whi ch had been gr owi ng t her e for centuri es, patches of gr en had begun to appear i n the bl ackened soi l. Lesson63 She was not am used 她并不覺得好笑 Ge off rey Hampden has a lar ge ci rcl e of fr iends and i s ver y popular at par ties. Ever ybody admi res him f or hi s fi ne sense of hum or ever ybody, that is, except hi s sixyear old daughter, Jenny. Recentl y, one of Geof fr ey39。s cl osest fr iends asked him to make a spe ech at a wedding recept ion. Thi s is the sor t of thing that Geof fr ey loves. He pr epar ed the speech caref ul ly and went to the wedding wi th Jenny. He had included a lar ge number of f unny stor ies i n the speech and, of course, i t was a great success. As soon as he had fi nished, Jenny t old hi m she wanted t o go home. Geof f rey was a l it tl e disappoint ed by this but he did as hi s daughter asked. On t he way home, he asked Jenny if she had enj oyed t he speech. To hi s sur pri se, she said she hadn39。t. Geoff r ey asked her why this was so and she tol d him that she di d not l ike t o se so many people l aughi ng at hi m ! Lesson64 The Channel Tunnel 海峽隧道 I n l858, a French engi neer , Ai me Thom e de Gamond, ar ri ved i n England wi th a pl an for a t wentyone m il e tunnel across the Engli sh Channel. He said that it would be possi ble t o buil d a plat form i n the centr e of the Channel . Thi s platf orm would ser ve as a por t and a rail way stati on. The t unnel would be wel l vent il at ed if t al l chi mneys were buil t above sea level. 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