Unit One 1
Diamonds 1
The Case for Home Comprters 3
Improve Your Reading Speed(Ⅰ) 6
The Raccoon 8
Money 11
Comprehensive Exercises 13
Answer Keys 19
Unit Two 23
Bread Baking 23
Intellingnce in Animals 26
Reading 29
Space Age 32
The Effect of Language on Juriees 34
Comprehensive Exercises 37
Answer Keys 43
Unit Three 48
A Biological Experiment 48
Improve Your Reading Speed(Ⅱ) 50
Improve Your Reading Speed(Ⅲ) 53
Growing up in a Village 56
The Birth of a Star 59
Comprehensive Exercises 62
Answer Keys 67
Unit Four 71
Starting Your Own Business 71
Crystallization 74
The Kitchen Sink 76
Advertisements Production 79
Worrying 82
Comprehensive Exercises 85
Answer Keys 90
Unit Five 94
Murder in Los Angeles 94
Pets 97
Molecules 99
Diseases and Medicine 101
Drunken Driving 104
Comprehensive Exercises 106
Answer Keys 111
Unit Six 116
The Development of Lang uage 116
The Use of NFT 120
Circadian Patterns 123
Fish 129
Drugs 129
Comprehensive Exercises 132
Answer Keys 137
Unit Seven 142
Divorce 142
Matchmakers 145
Local Authority Bonds 149
Octopus 152
Decline of the English Language 155
Comprehensive Exercises 157
Answer Keys 164
Unit Enght 169
Growith up in a Small Town 169
The Law 172
Zombie 175
Ballooning for Fun 177
An Advertisement for Employment 180
Comprehensive Exercises 183
Answer Keys 188
Unit Nine 192
Uncle Charlie 192
Advertising Standards 194
Lang uage and People 198
Prospects for a National Economy 201
Making Friends 203
Comprehensive Exercises 207
Answer Keys 213
Clours and Houses 217
Unit Ten 217
A College of Music 221
Good and Bad Reviews 224
A Strange Land 228
Walkabout with Queen 231
Comprehensive Exercises 233
Answer Key 238
Unit Eleven 243
Georgian House 243
The Cold War 246
Changes in the Art of Persuasio 249
Televison Advertising 252
Teaching of Pronunciation 255
Comprehensive Exercises 259
Answer Keys 264
Radiocarbon Dating 269
Unit Twelve 269
Historical Synthesis Writing 272
Learn to Paint 275
The Generation Gap in the 1920's 278
The Modern Sitting Room 281
Comprehensive Exercises 284
Answer Keys 288
Unit Thirteen 293
An Office Scene 293
Return to Lucerne 295
An Early Balloon Voyage 298
A Modern Crossing of Australia 301
The Invasion of the Space Invaders 304
Comprehensive Exercises 307
Answer Keys 313
Life Story of Speke 317
Unit Four teen 317
Some Comments on Advertising 319
A Wanderer in Europe 322
Around the World in 80 Cliches 325
Work 329
Comprehensive Exercises 333
Answer Keys 338
Unit Fifteen 343
Adolescent Delinpuency 343
Sub-Editor on the Times 346
Sturt's Exploration in Central Australia 349
A Train Journey 352
The Baildons 355
Comprehensive Exercises 358
Answer Keys 363