Contents 1
Unit One 1
1．The Rich Man s Sons 1
2．You Never Know 4
3．A Free Lunch 7
Unit Two 11
1．Warning to Beginners 11
2．Full Circle 14
3．Shake It off and Step up 16
Unit Three 20
1． I Have a Dream 20
2．The Cost of Education 24
3．The Midnight Visitor 28
1．Why Is the Native Language Leant So Well 33
Unit Four 33
2．The First Day in a Polytechnic in London 36
3．Atomic Cars 39
Unit Five 43
1．The Biological Clock 43
2．Foreign Language Study in American 45
3．How to Give a Good Speech 49
Unit Six 53
1．Patients Needed 53
2．Women in the Media 56
3．Public Transportation 59
Unit Seven 63
1．Higher Education 63
2．Famous Last Words 66
3．The Helpful Cow 68
1．The Wisdom of Solomon 71
Unit Eight 71
2．Doing Favors Can Be Dangerous 74
3．Earthquakes 77
Unit Nine 80
1．Color 80
2．The Marvels of Color 83
3．Happily Ever After 86
Unit Ten 91
1．The Noodlehead and the Pumpkin 91
2．Go to the Ant 94
3．The Name That Was Dropped 97
Unit Eleven 101
1．Thank You 101
2．Do Touch 104
3．The Secret of Language 106
1．Why Do We Dream 110
Unit Twelve 110
2．Great Inventions 112
3．All Together Now 115
Unit Thirteen 119
1．The Sun and the North Wind 119
2．Food 122
3．The Right Price 125
Unit Fourteen 128
1．Speak Your Weight 128
2．A Clever Escape 131
3．Prophet of the Space Age 133
Unit Fifteen 138
1．Cigarette Smoking and Cancer of the Lung 138
2．A Lesson for Living 142
3．Somewhen 145
Key to Exercises 149