1.Welcome to Our Bank 1
2.Fire Fighters 4
3.The Earth s Spreading Deserts 7
4.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 10
5.Master of the Mountain Peaks 13
6.An Old-Time Iowa Christmas 16
7.Malutka,the Gypsy Horse 19
8.Stuck on Stamps 22
9.What You Didn t Know About Money and Happiness 26
10.Helene D.Gayle 30
11.Edwin Hubble 33
12.Leadership in the New Era 37
13.The Kas for Ezier Spelling 40
14.Eating Patterns of the Period 45
15.White-collar Crime 49
16.Slave Trading in the Colonial North 53
17.The Meaning of Politics 57
18.A Good Deal for a Dime 60
19.Best Mom a Dad Could Be 63
20.Touched by an Angel-Named Mahalia(Ⅰ) 66
21.Touched by an Angel-Named Mahalia(Ⅱ) 70
22.What Kids Really Need from Mom? 73
23.See Through Other Eyes 78
24.The Assassination of Julius Caesar 81
25.Shyness 84
26.Just Trying to Be Cool 86
27.The Beau Catcher 89
28.The Little Shot 93
29.Could a Magic Flute Make You Smarter? 96
30.A Payment Greater Than Money 99
31.When Your Child Lies 102
32.Lateral Thinking 105
33.How to Give a Good Speech 108
34.Five Little Pigs 111
35.Reeds,Pens,and Beyond 114
36.My First Job 117
37.Make Your Home Break-in Proof(Ⅰ) 121
38.Make Your Home Break-in Proof(Ⅱ) 125
39.Make Your Home Break-in Proof(Ⅲ) 129
40.A Father,a Son and an Answer 133
41.Hey,Take It Easy(It s Never too Late to Slow Down) 136
Key to the Exercises 140