PART ONE Reading Comprehension and Translation 1
1 How to Improve Your Vocabulary 3
2 Time Bomb 5
3 Have You Got a Nickname? 7
4 Elephant 9
5 Umbrella 11
6 Tree Rings 13
7 Chess 15
8 This and That of Life 16
9 Intelligent Dogs 18
10 The Seas and the Oceans 20
11 Social Manners 22
12 A Sleepless Man 24
13 Flags of the United States 26
14 Mark Twain 28
15 Wandering in a Bookshop 30
16 Dustmen 32
17 The Old Days 34
18 Music 36
19 The School of Tomorrow 38
20 Examinations 40
21 The Importance of Trees 42
22 Basic Needs of Life 44
23 If We Did Not Have Air 46
24 Sight and Judgement 47
25 Bright Ideas 50
26 Hair Care 52
27 Albert Einstein 54
28 A Fish to Run a Motor? 56
29 Dreams 58
30 Fhe History of Newspapers 60
31 The Power of Language 62
32 Ball Games in America 64
33 Why Do People Smoke? 66
34 Hawaii 68
35 American Cities 70
36 A University Town 72
37 How Birds Migrate 74
38 Hungry for Hamburgers 76
39 The Wheel and a New Invention 78
40 Better Understanding to Each Other 80
41 Intelligence 82
42 Men and Women 84
43 Magellan s Expedition 85
44 Automobiles in the USA 87
45 Meals Served in Schools 89
46 William Shakespeare 91
47 The Voices of Time 93
48 Overpopulation 95
49 Where Is He to Draw the Line ? 97
50 Heat 99
51 Sight 101
52 Automobile Accidents 103
53 West Point 104
54 The Mexico Games 106
55 A Special and Valuable Stone 108
56 Advertising 110
57 Forms of Communication 112
58 School and Education 114
59 The Protection of Animals 116
60 Venus 118
61 Braille 120
62 Newspapers 122
63 Greenhouse Effect 124
64 Football Fans 126
65 Man and Radiation 128
66 Flightwatch 130
67 The Curiosity in Man s Nature 132
68 Religion 134
69 Leisure 136
70 The First American Railroads 138
71 Weights and Measures 140
72 The Relation Between Lawyers and Books 142
73 American Family Life 144
74 Bike for a Better City 146
75 Tornado 148
76 A Famous Forger 150
77 U.S. Economy in the 50 s 152
78 Computer Revolution 154
79 The Puzzle of the Universe 156
80 Competition and the Market 158
81 The American University and Universities in the Middle Ages 160
82 Protecting Our Natural Environment 162
83 Changes in Museums 164
84 Transplants 166
85 How Can a Small Stamp Be Worth $16,800? 168
86 Seeing and Perceiving 170
87 Women s Liberation Movement 171
88 Defeat 173
89 Glass Fibers Used for Telephone Communication 175
90 Computer Viruses 177
PART TWO Key to Reading Comprehension and Translation 183