练习材料：Lesson 65 66

任务配置：L0

知识笔记：

Lesson65 Jumbo versus/ˈvɜː.səs/the police

Last Christmas, the circus/ˈsɜː.kəs/owner, Jimmy Gates, decided to take some presents to a children's hospital. Dressed up as Father Christmas and accompanied by a 'guard of honour' of six pretty girls, he set off down the main street of the city riding a baby elephant called Jumbo. Heshould have known that the police would never allow this sort of thing. A policeman approached Jimmy and told him he ought to have gone along a side-street as Jumbo was holding up the traffic. Though Jimmy agreed to go at once, Jumbo refused to move. Fifteen policemen had to push very hard to get him off the main street. The police had a difficult time, but they were most amused. 'Jumbo must weigh a few tons,' said a policeman afterwards, 'so it was fortunate that we didn't have to carry him. Of course, we should arrest him, but as he has a good record, we shall let him off this time.'

Lesson 66 Sweet as honey!

In 1963 a Lancaster bomber/ˈbɒm.ər/crashed on Wallis Island, a remote place in the South Pacific, a long way west of Samoa. The plane wasn't too badly damaged, but over the years, the crash was forgotten and the wreck/rek/remained undisturbed. Then in 1989, twenty-six years after the crash, the plane was accidentally rediscovered in an aerial survey of the island. By this time, a Lancaster bomber in reasonable condition was rare and worth rescuing. The French authorities had the plane packaged and moved in parts back to France. Now a group of enthusiasts/ɪnˈθjuː.zi.æst/are going to have the plane restored. It has four Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, but the group will need to have only three of them rebuilt. Imagine their surprise and delight when they broke open the packing cases and found that the fourth engine was sweet as honey -- still in perfect condition. A colony/ˈkɒl.ə.ni/of bees had turned the engine into a hive/haɪv/and it was totally preserved in beeswax/ˈbiːz.wæks/!

Packing case集装箱

Colony群a colony of bees 

Hive 蜂房

Beeswax蜂蜡