Contents 1
Unit One 1
1．Keeping up with the Joneses 1
2．Advice on Doing Business with the Arabs 4
3．Indian 7
Unit Two 10
1．Summer Holiday 10
2．The Letter V 12
3．Louis Armstrong 14
Unit Three 17
1．Pablo Ruizy Picasso 17
2．Wilhelm Konard R？ntgen 20
3．How to Give a Good Speech 23
1．To Table 26
Unit Four 26
2．An Unlucky Man 27
3．Parents and Children 32
Unit Five 36
1．Women and Marriage 36
2．Zoological Park 38
3．Clothes 41
Unit Six 44
1．The Worker Class 44
2．What Do Colors Mean? 46
3．Population 49
Unit Seven 53
1．The Last Word 53
2．Star and Crescent 56
3．The Breadwinner 58
1．American Christmas 64
Unit Eight 64
2．World Problem—Population 67
3．Tourist Attraction 69
Unit Nine 72
1．Three Groups of Oils 72
2．Traveling 74
3．Active and Passive Entertainment 77
Unit Ten 80
1．Mother and Baby 80
2．A Lucky Woman 82
3．Television Is Doing Irreparable Harm 84
Unit Eleven 88
1．A Teacher 88
2．American City 90
3．The History of Plastics 92
1．Secretary s Work 94
Unit Twelve 94
2．Painting Aunt Polly s Fence 96
3．Two Boys 99
Unit Thirteen 102
1．Stamp Collecting 102
2．Pro.Richard Rudd 105
3．Why Do People Smoke 107
Unit Fourteen 110
1．Civil Engineering 110
2．Dream 112
3．Dear Doctor 114
Unit Fifteen 119
1．Lessons from Overseas 119
2．A Man Who Had No Eyes 122
3．The Beautiful Black Princess 126
Key to Exercises 131