1. Amazing New Discovery--Hypnosis Makes a Better You! 1
2. An Unusual Doctor 4
3. How to Use Your Dictionary 8
4. Hurricane 12
5. The Death of an Old Dog 15
6. The British Isles 18
7. New Year 21
8. Mars 25
9. Horse Racing 28
10.Weather Forecast 31
11.Much Land Owned by Few People 33
12.Caught in the Act 35
13.Poison lvy 38
14.Country Doctor s Worry 41
15.Clever Decision 46
16.Helen Keller 50
17.Fireflies 55
18.The White House 58
19.Expensive Stamp 60
20.Manhattan 64
21.University Town 67
22.Aging Backward 72
23.Housewives Ambition 75
24.Litter Lifters 78
25.A Wise Old Judge 83
26.Blood 88
27.Edison 91
28.Teachers Job Is Getting More Difficult 95
29.The Old Man, His Son and the Ass 99
30.Generation Gap 102
31.Who Invented Musical Notes? 105
32.My Cup of Tea 109
33.Weed 113
34.Spring Fever 117
35.The Smallest State in America 121
36.Valentine s Day 125
37.To See Better--Feel 129
38.$50 134
39.The Blues 138
40.A Real Doctor 142
41.My View on the Year 2000 Computer Problem 148
42.Rebecca 153
43.On Optimism and Pessimism 158
44.The Global Environment 163
45.President Abraham Lincoln s Oration at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg 167
46.Nobel Prize 171
47.English Language 179
48.On Reading 185
49.How to Read Body Language 195
50.The Loss of the Titanic 206
51.Henry Kissinger 211
52.I Have a Dream 217
参考答案 228
词汇表 234