$课文29 出租汽车
294. Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.
本.弗西特机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽车，并开始了一项新的业务。
295. The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.
这辆“出租汽车”是一架小型瑞士飞机，叫“皮勒特斯.波特“号。
296. This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers.
这架奇妙的飞机可以载7名乘客。
297. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field.
然而，最令人惊奇的是它能够在任何地方降落：雪地上，水面上，甚至刚耕过的田里。
298. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.
弗西特机长的第一名乘客是位医生，他从伯明翰飞往威尔士山区一个偏僻的村庄。
299. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places.
从那时开始，弗西特机长已经载送乘客到过许多不寻常的地方。
300. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion, he landed in a deserted car park.
一次，他把飞机降落在了一栋公寓楼的屋顶上；还有一次，降落在了一个废弃的停车场上。
301. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.
弗西特机长刚刚拒绝了一位商人的奇怪要求。
302. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean,
这个人想要飞往大西洋上的一个孤岛 -- 罗卡尔岛，
303. but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.
弗西特机长之所以不送他去，是因为那段飞行太危险了。
$课文30 足球还是水球
304. The Wayle is a small river that cuts across the park near my home.
威尔河是横穿过我家附近公园的一条小河。
305. I like sitting by the Wayle on fine afternoons.
我喜欢在天气晴朗的下午到河边坐坐。
306. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual.
上星期日天气很暖和。于是我和往常一样，又去河边坐着。
307. Some children were playing games on the bank and there were some people rowing on the river.
河岸上有些孩子正在玩耍，河面上有些人正在划船。
308. Suddenly, one of the children kicked a ball very hard and it went towards a passing boat.
突然，一个孩子狠狠地踢了一脚球，球便向着一只划过来的小船飞去。
309. Some people on the bank called out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear them.
岸上的一些人对着小船上的人高喊，但他没有听见。
310. The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water.
球重重地打在他身上，使他差点儿落入水中。
311. I turned to look at the children, but there weren't any in sight:they had all run away!
我转过头去看那些孩子，但一个也不见，全都跑了！
312. The man laughed when he realized what had happened.
当那个人明白了发生的事情时，笑了起来。
313. He called out to the children and threw the ball back to the bank.
他大声叫着那些孩子，把球扔回到岸上。
$课文31 成功者的故事
314. Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.
昨天下午弗兰克.霍金斯向我讲述了他年轻时的经历。
315. Before he retired, Frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
在退休前，弗兰克是一家非常大的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工。
316. It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
他那时的工作是修理自行车，并且通常是一天工作14个小时。
317. He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.
他靠多年积蓄，于1958年买下了自己的一个小铺子。
318. In his twenties Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.
20多岁的时候，弗兰克曾生产飞机零配件。
319. At that time he had two helpers.
那时他有两个帮手。
320. In a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
几年之后，小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有728人的大工厂。
321. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.
弗兰克回想着他早年的艰难经历和走过的漫长的成功之路，微笑了。
322. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.
他正笑着的时候门开了，他的妻子走了进来。
323. She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!
她叫他去修理孙子的自行车。