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Unit I Texts 1--4 1

IA Reading for Comprehension of Speed 1

1.In Search of Silence 1

2.Robert Baden-Powell,Secret Agent 7

3.Safeguarding Life 12

4.Along the Mighty Thames 18

IB Learning about Reading Skills 23

IC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 27

5.The House That Hippo Built 29

ⅡA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 29

Unit Ⅱ Texts 5--8 29

6.Religions of the East 35

7.Manners Here,Manners There 41

8.The House of Alphonse 46

ⅡB Learning about Reading Skills 52

ⅡC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 54

Unit Ⅲ Texts 9--12 56

ⅢA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 56

9.Weather Catastrophe--Then and Now? 56

10.The Chimp-O-Mat 62

11.The Noisy World of the Skindiver 67

12.The Wisdom of Socrates 73

ⅢB Learning about Reading Skills 78

ⅢC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 82

Unit Ⅳ Texts 13--16 84

ⅣA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 84

13.Telltale Trees 84

14.Six Months in-Another World 90

15.The Strange Saga of Ivan the Terrible 96

16.Our Greatest Possession 102

ⅣB Learning about Reading Skills 108

ⅣC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 110

Unit Ⅴ Texts 17--20 113

ⅤA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 113

17.Sweet Jubilee 113

18.On Being Translated into English 119

19.Organized Crime 124

20.Lady of the Wasteland 129

ⅤB Learning about Reading Skills 134

ⅤC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 137

21.The Man Who Made Mickey Mouse 139

Unit Ⅵ Texts 21--24 139

ⅥA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 139

22.I ve Thumbed My Last Ride 145

23.The “Upstart Crow” 151

24.The People Will Live on 157

ⅥB Learning about Reading Skills 163

ⅥC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 166

Unit Ⅶ Texts 25--28 168

ⅦA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 168

25.Needed:An International Language 168

26.Jet-Age Smugglers 174

27.Is a Race of Robot Possible? 180

28.The Sun Also Rises 186

ⅦB Learning about Reading Skills 192

ⅦC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 194

Unit Ⅷ Texts 29--32 196

ⅧA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 196

29.Anatomy of a Martian 196

30.The Piece of String 202

31.Eskimos in Japan 208

32.Pygmalion 214

ⅧB Learning about Reading Skills 220

ⅧC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 224

Unit Ⅸ Texts 33--36 226

ⅨA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 226

33.Conversation with a Chimpanzee 226

34.The Real Sherlock Holmes 232

35.Fact Catches up with Fiction 238

36. How to Mark a Book 244

ⅨB Learning about Reading Skills 250

ⅨC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 253

Unit Ⅹ Texts 37--40 256

ⅩA Reading for Comprehension and Speed 256

37.Village Inventors 256

38.Killer Reef 262

39.For All Women 268

40.Samuel Johnson and His Works 274

ⅩB Learning about Reading Skills 280

ⅩC Testing Your Reading Comprehension and Speed 282

Key to Exercises 285