Preface 1
PART ONE Reading Comprehension and Translation 1
1 Don t Fear Making Mistakes 3
2 Titles Before People s Names 4
3 Speaking the Truth 6
4 Take the Same Medicine 8
5 The World Population 10
6 A Difficult Decision 12
7 Languages and Body Languages 13
8 Boston Children s Museum 15
9 The Sun,the Source of All the Useful Energy 17
10 How to Eat in Space? 19
11 The White House 20
12 Train Number 814 22
13 A Substitute 24
14 How to Prevent a House from Being Burglarized? 26
15 High Waves 28
16 The Weather and Englishmen s Personality 30
17 A Watcher 31
18 A Cub Reporter 33
19 The Origin of Basketball 35
20 Cars in the Future 37
21 Learning to Be One s True Self 39
22 In a Hotel Room 40
23 A New Testing Device 42
24 Gold 44
25 Modern Cities Pollution 46
26 Wise Division 47
27 Paper 49
28 European Names 51
29 The Leaning Tower of Pisa 53
30 Uses of Diamonds 55
31 Marathon 56
32 Inspector Reed 58
33 Disadvantages of Television 60
34 What Are the Best Guidebooks? 62
35 Exploration 64
36 Napoleon Bonaparte 65
37 Ballet School in Russia 67
38 Education Reform 69
39 Man s Brain 71
40 Who Invented Agriculture? 72
41 The Unknown Place on the Earth 74
42 The Story of Cinderella 76
43 Difficult to Stop Smoking 78
44 Flexible Time 79
45 Shoppers 81
46 Nobel Prizes 83
47 A Horror Killer 85
48 A Changing Nation 87
49 Formula for Staying Young 88
50 Who re Smoking? 90
51 A Good Purchase 92
52 British Families 94
53 A New Computer Controlling System 96
54 Different Levels of Sleep 98
55 Orangutan,Manlike Apes 100
56 Inflation 101
57 A Special Resource 103
58 Technology Has Caused Changes 105
59 A Special Reading Machine 107
60 The Early Automobile and Its Drivers 109
61 Time Is Tangible 111
62 Women s Political Rights 112
63 Plastic Shoes and Leather Shoes 114
64 Illiteracy 116
65 Two-Career Marriages 118
66 What Is Market? 120
67 When Do People Begin to Become Old? 122
68 Walt Whitman 124
69 Social Changes Need New Laws 126
70 Is It Good or Not Good? 128
71 Washington Irving 130
72 Who Brings Air Pollution? 132
73 Volcano 134
74 The Equator and Safety 136
75 Psychology and Psychologists 138
76 Middle English 140
77 Which Kind of Architecture Is Better,Modern or Ancient? 142
78 In a Communal Home 144
79 Outward Bound 145
80 Stethoscope 147
81 Free Sampling 149
82 Proud Refusal 151
83 Bret Harte 153
84 A Young Couple s Marriage Attitude 155
85 Women Soldiers 156
86 The Telephone Apparatus 158
87 Folk Songs 160
88 The Theory of Probability 162
89 George Washington s Regret 164
90 British Influence 166
PART TWO Key to Reading Comprehension and Translation 171