COntents 1
UNIT ONE 1
Part A The Little Boat That Sailed Through Time 1
Part B 1．What's Your Hurry？ 8
2．It Was a Good Barn 11
UNIT TWO 16
Part A The Baggy Yellow Shirt 16
Part B 1．When Words Fail 22
2．Stories for the Asking 26
UNIT THREE 30
Part A Best Ways to Say“I Love You” 30
Part B 1．Nice Ways to Say“No” 37
2．How to Pursue Happiness 40
Part A My Father，“Dr．Pat” 43
Part A Parents Have the Power to Help in the Schooling 45
UNIT FOUR 45
Part B 1．Let Families Decide 51
2．Good News Bad News in School Crime Report 55
UNIT FIVE 59
Part A Travel to Australasia？ 59
Part B 1．Let's Go to Scandinavia and Easten Europe 66
2．Let's Go to Turkey 69
Part A Why Time Flies 73
UNIT SIX 73
Part B 1．Easy Job，Good Wages 79
2．The Clock 83
UNIT SEVEN 87
Part A The Language Of Advertising 87
Part B 1．Buyer Beware：Avoid These Rip-Offs 95
2．Auetion Sales 99
UINT EIGHT 103
Part A ls Being Single Still out of Line？ 103
Part B 1．The Family 109
2．Lessons From Overseas 112
UNIT NINE 116
Part A Conflict and Cooperation 116
Part B 1．The World Food Programme 122
2．The U nited Nations 126
UNIT TEN 130
Part A Time To Give Reading a Break 130
Part B 1．Pace of Reading and TV Viewing 135
2．Education's No Lark 139
UNIT ELEVEN 143
Part B 1．The Ocean 150
2．Longitude and Latitude 153
UNIT TWELVE 157
Part A The Role of Chance in Scientific Discovery 157
Part B 1．The Birth of the Nuclear Age 164
2．The Disoovery of Radar 168
UNIT THIR TEEN 173
Part A A Look at the Abuse of Drugs in Britain 173
Part B 1．Drug Busting 180
2．Drug Addiction in the U nited States 185
UNIT FOURTEEN 189
Part A Thinkers Think about Teaching Thinking 189
Part B 1．How to Teach Your Child to Think 196
2．Why Don't Girls Think Like Boys？ 199
UNIT FIFTEEN 204
Part A How Fast Should a Person Read？ 204
Part B 1．Aspects of theReading Process and Reading Efficiency 211
2．Obstacles to Fanter Effective Reading 214
Part A Make the Right Colors Work for You 218
UNIT SIXTEEN 218
Part B 1．Serve Them Right 224
2．Common Searches 228
Seperate Lands 228
UNIT SEVENTEEN 233
Part A Win with Your Strengths 233
Part B 1．What Ever Happened to Hard Work？ 240
2．Everything's not Okay 243
UNIT EIGHTEEN 247
Part A Americans：A Definition 247
Part B 1．How New York Became America's Largest City 254
2．Save Our Environment 257
UNIT NINETEEN 260
Part A Teaching My Grandmother to Read 260
Part B 1．Number Sense 266
2．Brain Size and Intelligence 269
UNIT TWENTY 273
Part A Who Should Pay？ 273
Part B 1．The Call to Language Learning 280
2．Improve All Schools 284