1 A Rich Father 1
2 She Would Do More 9
3 A Miser 16
4 A Naughty and Clever Boy 24
5 Our President is His Chauffeur 31
6 Tell Me When We Get There 39
7 Absent-minded Professors 47
8 Brain Maturation and Emotional Growth 55
9 How Does a Rattlesnake Warn of its Presence？ 63
10 Henpecked Husbands 73
11 The Development of An Urban Economy Depends on The Modernization of Agriculture 84
12 Mark Twain’s Absent-mindedness 94
13 A Difficult Case 101
14 A Talkative Girl 108
15 A Private Conversation 114
16 The Ant and the Grasshopper 120
17 How to Keep Robots from Taking Your Job（1） 126
18 How to Keep Robots from Taking Your Job（2） 133
19 A Seaman Couldn’t Swim 141
20 We Live in the Future AT＆T Imagined In 1994（1） 147
21 We Live in the Future AT＆T Imagined In 1994（1） 154
22 Three Bcasters and a Bear 161
23 A Clever Man 168
24 Aunt Mary’s Pleasure Grew Less 175
25 The Risk to Sink all Your Capital In a New Business 182
26 Who Is Always in The Wrong 189
27 Stories About Punctuation 195
28 What Work do You Like to do？ 201
29 Commerce and Industry in England 207
30 Factors That Cause Market Price up or Down 213
31 What Brought"His Will to Live"Back to Him 220
32 Einstein and Driver 225
33 Special Request 233
34 What a Good Young Man! 243
35 Don’t Be Frightened 252
36 The Early History of Synthetic Plastics 261
37 An old House 269
38 Do You Know My Work？ 276
39 We Enjoy The Evenings at Home 283
40 The Economic Structure of The Marketplace 291
41 Sir Walter Scott 299
42 A Successful Present 306
43 Trees Can Talk 315
44 Cooperation Based on Belt and Road Can Overcome Risk of War Between China,US.（1） 322
45 Cooperation Based on Belt and Road Can Overcome Risk of War Between China,US.（2） 329
46 Cooperation Based on Belt and Road Can Overcome Risk of War Between China,US.（3） 343
47 Tom’s Waterloo in England 351
48 A Picnic Lunch 359
49 Why Are You Trenbling？ 367
50 Why I’m Embarrassed to Be an American While Studying Abroad（1） 375
51 Why I’m Embarrassed to Be an American While Studying Abroad（2） 383
52 The Big Stores 390
53 A Day’s Work of an Undergraduate 398
54 How Driving Around the World Gave me a Crash Course in Cultures（1） 407
55 How Driving Around the World Gave me a Crash Course in Cultures（2） 415
56 The World’s Biggest Shopping Day You May Have Never Heard of（1） 425
57 The World’s Biggest Shopping Day You May Have Never Heard of（2） 439
附录 454
参考文献 491