【正文】 when he r et urns home at night, he always f inds that som eone has par ked a car outsi de hi s gate. Because of t his, he has not been able t o get hi s own car int o his garage even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Parki ng39。 signs outside his gate, but these have not had any ef ect. Now he has put an ugl y stone head over the gate. It i s one of the ugli est faces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what i t was and he t old m e that it was Medusa, t he Gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wi l tur n mot or ist s to stone. But none of them has been tur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new servi ce. The 39。t axi 39。 i s a smal Swi s aer opl ane cal led a 39。Pi l at us Por ter 39。. This wonderf ul pl ane can car y seven passenger s. The m ost surpri sing t hi ng about i t, however , i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water , or even on a ploughed fi eld. Capt ain Fawcet 39。s fi rst pasenger was a doctor who f lew f r om Bi rm ingham to a lonely vi l age i n t he Welsh mountai ns. Since t hen, Capt ain Fawcet has fl own pasenger s to m any unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat s and on anot her occasion, he landed in a deser ted car par k. Capt ain Fawcet has just r efused a str ange r equest f rom a busi nessman. The m an wanted to fl y to Rockal , a lonely i sland in the At lanti c Ocean, but Capt ai n Fawcet t did not take him because the t ri p was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal l r iver that cut s acr oss the park near my home. I li ke si t ing by t he Wayle on fi ne af ter noons. I t was warm l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chil dren wer e playing games on t he bank and t her e were some people r owing on t he ri ver. Suddenly, one of the chil dr en kicked a bal ver y har d and it went towards a passi ng boat . Som e people on the bank cal led out to t he man i n the boat, but he di d not hear them. The bal str uck hi m so har d that he near ly f el int o the wat er. I tur ned to l ook at t he chi ldr en, but there wer en39。t any i n sight: t hey had al l r un away! The man laughed when he realized what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dren and t hr ew t he bal l back t o the bank. Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事 Yest erday aft er noon Frank Hawkins was t el ing me about hi s exper iences as a young man. Fr ank is now the head of a ver y lar ge busi ness pany, but as a boy he used to wor k i n a smal shop. I t was hi s job t o r epair bi cycles and at that ti me he used t o wor k f our teen hour s a day. He saved money f or years and i n 1938 he bought a sm al l work shop of his own. Dur ing t he war Frank used to make spar e part s for aeroplanes. At t hat t ime he had t wo helpers. By t he end of t he war, t he smal l work shop had bee a large f act ory which employed seven hundred and twent y eight people. Fr ank smi led when he r emember ed his hard ear ly years and t he long r oad t o succes. He was sti l smi li ng when the door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She want ed hi m to r epai r their son39。s bicycl e ! Lesson32 Shopping m ade easy 購物變得很方便 People ar e not so honest as t hey once were. The tempt ation to steal is gr eat er t han ever bef oreespecial ly i n lar ge shops. A detective r ecent ly wat ched a wel l dressed wom an who always went i nto a large stor e on Monday mor nings. One M onday, there wer e f ewer people i n the shop than usual when t he woman cam e in, so it was easi er for the detecti ve to watch her. The woman f ir st bought a few smal l ar ti cl es. Af ter a l it tl e ti me, she chose one of the most expensive dr esses i n t he shop a nd handed i t o an assi st ant who wrapped it up f or her as qui ckly as possibl e. Then t he woman simpl y took t he par cel and walked out of the shop wit hout paying. When she was ar rested, the detecti ve found out t hat t he shopassi stant was her daught er . The gir l39。 gave39。 her mot her a f r e dr es once a week ! lesson33 Out of t he darknes 沖出黑暗 Nearl y a week pased before the gir l was abl e to expl ai n what had happened t o her . One aft ernoon she set out f r om t he coast i n a smal boat and was caught i n a stor m. Towards eveni ng, t he boat st ruck a r ock and the gir l jumped i nto t he sea. Then she swam t o t he shore af ter spending the whole ni ght i n the wat er. Dur ing t hat t ime she cover ed a distance of ei ght m il es. Earl y next mor ning, she saw a l ight ahead. She knew she was near t he shor e because the l ight was hi gh up on t he cl if fs. On ar ri vi ng at the shor e, t he gir l st ruggled up t he clif f towar ds the l ight she had sen. That was al l she r em em ber ed. When she woke up a day l ater, she found herself in hospit al. Lesson34 Quick work 破案“神速” Ted Robi nson has been wor r ied al t he wek. Last Tuesday he r eceived a l et er f rom the l ocal police. In the let ter he was asked t o cal l at t he st ation. Ted wonder ed why he was wanted by t he pol ice, but he went to the stati on yest er day and now he is not worr ied any mor e. At the stati on, he was t old by a smil ng poli ceman t hat hi s bi cycl e had been f ound. Five days ago, t he pol iceman tol d him, t he bicycl e was picked up in a smal vil lage four hundr ed mi les away. I t is now bei ng sent to hi s home by tr ain. Ted was most surpr ised when he hear d the news. He was amused t oo, because he never expect ed t he bicycle t o be found. It was stolen t wenty years ago when Ted was a boy of f if teen ! Lesson35 St op t hief! 捉賊！ Rov Tr enton used to dr ive a t axi . A shor t whil e ago, however , he became a busdr iver and he was not r egr eted i t. He is f inding hi s new work far mor e exci ti ng. When he was dr ivi ng al ong Catf or d St reet re cent ly, he saw two thieves rush out of a shop and r un towards