1.Text:The Art Scholarship (Scene Ⅰ) 9
2.Text:The Art Scholarship (Scene Ⅱ) 19
3.Text:A Sweet Potato Plot 30
4.Text:Golden Trumpets 43
5.Text:Killers of Bacteria 57
6.Text:The Blind Men and the Elephant 71
7.Text:Africa—Land and Civilization 84
8.Text:The Study of English 97
9.Text:Lenin in London 119
10.Text:Heart Transplants 134
11.Text:A Doctor Sent by Chairman Mao 148
12.Text:Our Earth 164
13.Text:The Great Hall of the People—A Foreign Visitor’s Impressions of Peking 181
14.Text:To China at Ninety 196
15.Text:The Cop and the Anthem 219
16.Text:The Financiers 237
17.Text:The Financiers (Continued) 255
18.Text:Robinson Crusoe Makes Himself a Boat 271
Appendix 285
1.Vocabulary 285
2.Idioms and Expressions 299
3.Proper Names 302