contents 1
Part 1 1
1 The Study of English 1
2 Women Farmers Turn Artists 3
3 Serious Pollution in U．S． 5
4 The Use of Home Computers 6
5 Talkin g About Past Possibilities 9
6 Salt 11
7 Teachers in the Sky 13
8 Volcanoes 16
9 Boy in a Basket 18
10 To Look Is Not to See 21
Part 2 24
11 The First Postage Stamp in the World 24
12 The Soup Stone 27
13 The Lady or the Tiger？（1） 30
14 The Lady or the Tiger？（2） 33
15 The Story of Little Gauss 36
16 The King of the Jungle（1） 39
17 The King of the Jungle（2） 42
18 The Best Age to Be 45
19 No Friends at Dinner 48
20 The Prince and the Judge（1） 52
21 The Prince and the Judge（2） 54
22 Time Here and There 57
23 Why Dogs Bare Their Teeth？ 60
24 The Santa Within Me（1） 64
25 The Santa Within Me（2） 67
26 The First Morning（1） 70
27 The First Morning（2） 73
28 The Moving Coffins of Barbados 76
29 What's the Nobel Prize？ 79
30 The Clever Servant 82
Part 3 86
31 My Aunt 86
32 Travelling in Space 88
33 A Cupboard or 90
34 A Name to Remember 92
35 Work“Au Pair” 94
36 SOS Village Gives Children a Mother 97
37 Thomas Alva Edison 99
38 The Doctor's Story 102
39 Self-Protection 105
40 The Long Way Home 108
41 Schools Should Use Museums 113
42 Smoke Gets in Your Lungs 116
43 Seeking Gold Aboard Titanic's Sister 118
44 Napoleon's Tunnel Dream to Be a Reality 121
45 Diamonds Older Than the Sun 124
Part 4 128
46 Dialogues 128
47 The soil 129
48 The Man Who Escaped（1） 131
49 The Man Who Escaped（2） 134
50 The Man Who Escaped（3） 136
51 The Man Who Escaped（4） 140
52 What We Eat and Drink 143
53 How to Win Friends and Sell Records 145
54 Man-Made Earth Satellites 149
55 The Lucky Accident 151
Key to the Exercises 155
Vocabulary 161