Preface 1
PART ONE Reading Comprehension and Translation 1
1 The First Atomic Bomb 3
2 What Has Tobacco Brought to the U.S.? 5
3 What Are They Worrying about? 7
4 The Blind Infants 9
5 It s Time to Say No! 11
6 Petroleum Products 12
7 What Are the Teachers Teaching? 15
8 Busy Times 17
9 Making Full Use of Our Senses 18
10 Why Are Women Exploited? 20
11 Energy Cycle 22
12 Television in America 24
13 The Side Effects of Refrigerators 26
14 The Worst Enemies Are Approaching 28
15 The Need for Qualified English Teachers 30
16 Food and Health 32
17 The Effects of Oil Industry 34
18 What Will a Large Population Bring? 36
19 How to Enjoy Music? 38
20 Fighting against Water 40
21 The U.S.Court System 42
22 Protein and Health 44
23 The Black s Contribution 46
24 Modern Technology and Environment 48
25 Florence Sephton 50
26 The Way a Color Television Works 52
27 A Study of Differences 54
28 Pupils 56
29 Hurricane 58
30 Future Development 60
31 Benefits of Apologizing 61
32 How to Read? 63
33 Snowblindness 65
34 Effective Stories 67
35 Computer Criminals 70
36 Erosion 71
37 The Transcontinental Railroad 73
38 An Advertisement for Burglar Alarm 75
39 Influenza Viruses 77
40 The Concept of Relativity 79
41 High Buildings in New York 81
42 Who Will Enter the White House? 83
43 The Origin of the Clock 85
44 Advertisements 87
45 Protecting a Wife s Right 89
46 Bryant 91
47 Taxes 93
48 A Special Building 95
49 Superstition 97
50 To Work or Not to Work（Outside the Home） 99
51 The Secret of Happiness 101
52 Keeping Physically and Mentally Active 103
53 Why Do Babies Learn to Do Things? 105
54 The Jarvik—7 107
55 How to Stay Young? 109
56 People Are Getting to Be Alike? 111
57 How to Divide the Class? 113
58 Succession 115
59 Paying Attention to Detail 116
60 Different Stress 119
61 The Portable Translator 120
62 Atom s Splitting 122
63 Security and Commodity Exhanges 124
64 Quicksand 126
65 Changes in Women s Life 128
66 The Differences Between Undersea and Space Exploration 130
67 Different Cultures 132
68 Can We Make a Machine Intelligent? 134
69 Application of Modern Techniques 136
70 Should We Have Our Breakfast? 138
71 Where Do the Englishmen Prefer to Live? 140
72 Emotion 142
73 The Application of Infrared Scanning in Agriculture 144
74 If You Don t Fasten Your Seat Belt 146
75 The Babies Mathematical Talent 148
76 The Most Effective Complaint 149
77 Ancient Cultures 152
78 New Developments in Constructing Quake—resistant Buildings 154
79 What Will Computers Result in? 156
80 Oceanography 158
81 A New Nursing System 160
82 The Way to Health 162
83 How to Get a Degree in U.S.? 164
84 Should We Ban Examinations? 166
85 Discovery of Australia 168
86 Application of Solar Energy 169
87 Language Learning 171
88 London Bridge 173
89 Undersea World 175
90 Speeding Limit 177
PART TWO Key to Reading Comprehension and Translation 183