Contents 3
STAGE ONE 3
1 The Marvels of Colour 3
2 'Television Is Doing Irreparable Harm' 7
3 'Books,Plays and Films Should Be Censored' 11
4 Education Today 15
5 How Things Have Changed Since My Young Days! 21
6 An Anecdote of Sir Francis Drake 26
7 Life on the Roman Wall 30
8 The Glory of the Olympic Games 36
9 Tame Volcanoes 44
10 The Handsome and Deformed Leg 50
11 Benjamin Franklin 55
12 London 65
13 Climate in Britain 75
14 English Charaeteristies 81
15 Politeness in Britain 88
16 A Nation of Immigrants 95
17 Black Americans 100
18 Space Expedition 108
19 The Antarctic 113
20 The First Biologist 118
21 The Great Migrator 124
22 The Day the Bears Go to Bed 130
23 The Sacred"Rac" 138
24 Venice 142
25 A Kev to the Past 147
26 Sonar for the Blind 154
27 The Miracle of Voices Over Wire 159
28 How Much Sleep Do We Need? 168
29 How to Grow Old 173
30 Knowledge and Wisdom 179
STAGE TWO 187
1 Worst Winter for 50 Years in US 187
2 Superb Translator Knew Only Chinese 191
3 The Plight of Soviet Women 196
4 Smoking"Killing More Than 100,000 a Year" 202
5 You Can Speak in Public 208
6 Another Christmas,Another World 216
7 A Useful Mirror 224
8 Reverence for Life 235
9 Paul Korchagin（Excerpts from'The Making of a Hero'） 244
10 The King of Comedy 250
11 The Youngest Painter in the World 258
12 The Emperor's New Clothes 266
13 The Sixth Diamond 276
14 The Night Kate Shelley Saved the Express 286
15 The Story of Helen Keller 294
16 Three Days to See 306
17 Little Annie Oakley 316
18 Danger by Candlelight 323
19 A Young Boy's Ambition 333
20 Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper 342
21 Dawson:the City of Gold 357
22 Da Vinei's Greatest Triumph 368