Unit One About Myself 1
Passage 1 My Family 1
Passage 2 My Room 3
Passage 3 My Foreign Friends 5
Passage 4 Our House 7
Unit Two Our School 9
Passage 1 Our Classroom 9
Passage 2 Our School Garden 11
Passage 3 Our English Teacher 13
Passage 4 Our Library 15
Unit Three Learning English 17
Passage 1 The English Language 17
Passage 2 Two Languages Or One 20
Passage 3 How to Use a Dictionary 22
Unit Four The United States 24
Passage 1 The Early Days of the United States 24
Passage 2 Schools in the U.S 27
Passage 3 The Climates of the United States 30
Passage 4 The Capital of the United States 32
Unit Five The United Kindom 36
Passage 1 The Weather in England 36
Passage 2 Big Ben 38
Passage 3 The Currencies in Britain 41
Passage 4 The British Museum 43
Unit Six Other English Speaking Countries 46
Passage 1 Canada 46
Passage 2 New Zealand 49
Passage 3 Australia 52
Unit Seven Clever Persons（Ⅰ） 55
Passage 1 A Clever Boy 55
Passage 2 The Longest word in English 58
Passage 3 A Wise Grandfather 60
Passage 4 A Clever Businessman 62
Unit Eight Clever Persons（Ⅱ） 65
Passage 1 Whose Child? 65
Passage 2 The Stolen Horse 67
Passage 3 A Thinking Beggar 69
Passage 4 A Pot of Gold 72
Unit Nine Silly Persons（Ⅰ） 75
Passage 1 The Easiest Question in the Word 75
Passage 2 An Eleetric Heater 77
Passage 3 The Lost Ring 79
Passage 4 Nasreddin and His Donkeys 81
Unit Ten Silly Persons（Ⅱ） 83
Passage 1 Save Money 83
Passage 2 A Watch 85
Passage 3 A Foolish Young Man 87
Passage 4 Silly Saburo 89
Unit Eleven Forgetful Men 92
Passage 1 Mr.Forgetful（Ⅰ） 92
Passage 2 Mr.Forgetful（Ⅱ） 95
Passage 3 Mr.Forgetful（Ⅲ） 97
Passage 4 A Forgetful Couple 99
Unit Twelve Friendship 102
Passage 1 Between"Good"Neighbours 102
Passage 2 The Dove and the Ant 104
Passage 3 A Friendly Neighbour 106
Passage 4 A Faithful Dog 108
Unit Thirteen Greediness 111
Passage 1 A Greedy Dog 111
Passage 2 A Goose That Laid Golden Eggs 113
Passage 3 Whose Purse 115
Passage 4 Never Work After Supper 117
Uint Fourteen Manners 119
Passage 1 Brother and Sister 119
Passage 2 A Boy or A Girl 121
Passage 3 Good Manners or Bad Manners 123
Passage 4 Always Taking,Never Giving 125
Unit Fifteen Thomas Edison 128
Passage 1 The Life of Thomas Edison（Ⅰ） 128
Passage 2 The Life of Thomas Edison（Ⅱ） 131
Passage 3 A way to Show Respect 134
Passage 4 The Making of a Great Man 136
Unit Sixteen Albert Einstein 139
Passage 1 Young Albert Einstein 139
Passage 2 Albert Einstein's Overcoat 142
Passage 3 Einstein and Chaplin 144
Passage 4 A Wonderful Explanation about"Relativity" 145
Unit Seventeen Other Great Men（Ⅰ） 147
Passage 1 The Modesty of Issac Newton 147
Passage 2 Abraham Lincoln 150
Passage 3 Florence Nightingale 153
Passage 4 Young James W 156
Unit Eighteen Other Great Men（Ⅱ） 160
Passage 1 A Story About Rockefeller 160
Passage 2 A Writer for Children 162
Passage 3 Benjamin Franklin 164
Passage 4 William Shakespeare 167
Unit Nineteen Other Great Man（Ⅲ） 171
Passage 1 The First Money Mark Twain Earned 171
Passage 2 The Fairy Tales of the Grimm Brother 173
Passage 3 Leonardo da Vinci 175
Passage 4 Ludwig Van Beethoven 178
Unit Twenty The Earth 181
Passage 1 Our Beautiful World 181
Passage 2 Many Kinds of Land Water 184
Passage 3 The Earth and Gravity 186
Passage 4 Oil in the Earth 188
Unit Twenty-one The Mountains 190
Passage 1 The Legendary Roof of the World 190
Passage 2 The Moving Hill 192
Passage 3 Fish on the Mountain 194
Passage 4 Rocks Standing Like Men 196
Unit Twenty-two Rivers 198
Passage 1 River at Work 198
Passage 2 A River of Ice 201
Passage 3 The River That Dug a Canyon 202
Passage 4 The River in the Ocean 204
Unit Twenty-three Deserts 206
Passage 1 Deserts 206
Passage 2 Water and Plants in the Desert 209
Passage 3 Farming the Desert 212
Passage 4 The Sahara 214
Unit Twenty-four Islands 216
Passage 1 Islands 216
Passage 2 Plants and Animals on Islands 219
Passage 3 Island Reserves and Island Travels 221
Passage 4 Some Famous Islands 223
Unit Twenty-five The Polar Regions 226
Passage 1 The Polar Regions（Ⅰ） 226
Passage 2 The Polar Regions（Ⅱ） 228
Passage 3 Overland Travel on Polar Regions 230
Passage 4 Plants and Animals on Polar Regions 232
Unit Twenty-six People in the World 235
Passage 1 The World Population 235
Passage 2 The Rich and the Poor 237
Passage 3 The Indians Who Breathe Thin Air 239
Passage 4 Different People 241
Unit Twenty-seven Cities and Suburbs 244
Passage 1 Cities and Suburss 244
Passage 2 Cities:Past and Present 247
Passage 3 How Cities Began 249
Passage 4 City Food and City Water 251
Unit Twenty-eight Problems with City 254
Passage 1 Noise Pollution（Ⅰ） 254
Passage 2 Noise Pollution（Ⅱ） 257
Passage 3 Traffic and Pollution 259
Unit Twenty-nine Big Cities in the World 262
Passage 1 Sydney 262
Passage 2 New York City 265
Passage 3 Hong Kong 267
Passage 4 Paris 270
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