1. American

An American friend of ours hired a car in London although he was inexperienced in driving on the left-hand side of the road. Soon h found him going i the wr direction ro a roundabout. H braked sha , slid side , and en up wi both fr wheels o the pave . Badly sha , he w almost reli when a poli came ov to h . As a hu bobby lea in a the op window, o friend wai for the angry scold. But the policeman surprised him. "We seldom see anyone do that, sir," he said.

2. Astrology

Is astrology a science? It certainly claims to be one. We kn that astro commit thems to predi based o an all connection bet the posi of t stars a human li . People bo under a cer sign o the zod are supp to b of a cer temperament. Wh one pla is ne ano this i supposed t mean th the time is favourable for love, or war, or business deals. But does astrology make good its claims to predict the future with reasonably consistent success?

Flight

Until the twentieth century no human beings had ever lifted themselves from the ground in powered flight. There we balloons a gliders, b these
we passive dev for floa on a , or f making u of t wind. It was n until 1900 th the fi directed fli took pl . The inve in ques was Ferdinand, Count von Zeppelin. H conceived t notion o confining a bal within a
ci -shaped stru of me to make it sturdier. The first true aeroplane took flight in 1903.

4. Pets

Those people who care for pets and look after them properly find it hard to believe that there are others who just abandon their pets when they get tired of them. To d such a th in Eng is punis by l . Nevertheless i August, wh most peo in Lon go o holiday, ma pets a found aban and wand in t streets. Th have sim been thr out b their own during t weeks o the hol . When th animals a rescued they are taken to an animal home in Chelsea. Here they are looked after until someone gives them a new home.