sensitive to criticism, the bull forgot all about the matador and charged at the drun. The crowd suddenly grew quiet. The drunhowever, seemed quite sure of himself. When the bull got close to him, he clumsily stepped aside to let it pass. The crowd broe in to cheers and the drun bowed. By this time, however, three men had come into the ring and they quickly dragged the drunto safety. Even the bull seemed to feel sorry for him, for it looed on sympathetically until the drun was out of the way before once more turning its attention to the matador. Lesson71 A famous cloc一个著名的大钟 When y ou visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C. If the Houses of Parliament had hot been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected. Big Ben es its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the cloc when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. It is not o nly of immense size, but is extremel accurate as well. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day. On the B.B.C. you can hear the clockwhen it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the cloc tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. A painter who had been woring on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down ! Lesson72 A car called Bluebird “蓝鸟”汽车 The great racing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was the first man to drive at over 300 miles per hour. He set up a new world record in September 1935 at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. Bluebird, the car he was driving, ...
