CONTENTS 1
1．Our Beautiful World 1
2．The Sun 5
3．The World Population 9
4．Dining in A．D．2001 13
5．The Legendary Roof of the World 18
6．Labour and Man 22
7．A Clever Man 26
8．Cinderella—A Fable 29
9．Dickens and His Cat 34
10．Why Crabs Walk Sideways 37
11．The Importance of English 41
12．Tea 45
13．Animal Mimics 49
14．Trouble with Police 53
15．London and New York 57
16．School City 61
17．The Beautiful Horse 65
18．Sir Isaac Newton 69
19．The Trojan Horse（Ⅰ） 73
20．The Trojan Horse（Ⅱ） 77
21．Bad Habits…………………………8l 77
22．Are Sounds Useful or Harmful 85
23．Oil in the Earth 89
24．An Old Miser’s Funeral 93
25．The U．K 96
26．Look Carefully and Learn 100
27．The Moon in the Well 104
28．Scheherazade 108
29．Old Albert（Ⅰ） 112
30．Old Albert（Ⅱ） 116
31．Moderate 120
32．Where Did Americans Come from ？ 124
33．Space Shuttle 128
34．Examination 132
35．Mount Fuji 136
36．The story of Clock 140
37．Unbelievable 144
38．Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves（Ⅰ） 148
39．Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves（Ⅱ） 152
40．Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves（Ⅲ） 156
41．Literature 160
42．The President’s Modern Secretary 164
43．Acupuncture 168
44．Two Photographers 172
45．A Pronunciation Trouble 175
46．Honest Work 179
47．I’m Not Lost 183
48．Hans Christian Andersen 187
49．A Piper（Ⅰ） 192
50．A Piper（Ⅱ） 196
51．Is That the Dead Duck？ 200
52．Smokingand Health 204
53．The Twins’Trouble 208
54．Four Inches Too Short 212
55．Leisure and Private Life in England 216
56．A Lesson of Politeness 220
57．A Sleep for Twenty Years 224
58．The Nobel Prize 228
59．Old Medicine 232
60．Magic Mirror 236
61．How Glad I Am to Be a Boy 240
62．Athletics for Girls 244
63．Robot 248
64．Filling a Basket with Water 252
65．The OlympianGames 256
66．The Old Peasant and the King 261
67．The Proud Princess 265
68．Marco Polo 270
69．Stories About Cats 274
70．Cosmetics 278
71．The Story of My Life 282
72．Fun Run 286
73．Water，Steam and Ice 290
74．A Clever Servant 294
75．Swimming the Channel 298
76．A Heroic Doctor 302
77．Little Gauss 306
78．Sleeping Beauty（Ⅰ） 311
79．Sleeping Beauty（Ⅱ） 315
80．Sleeping Beauty（Ⅲ） 319
81．Good for the Mice 323
82．Do You Know Coal？ 326
83．How to Keep Strong 330
84．A Clever Farmer 334
85．At the Waxworks Exhibition 337
86．‘I Must Make Haste’ 341
87．Science and Human Life 345
88．Atoms，Plants and the Sea 349
89．Eyes’Reactions 353
90．A Talk with Napoleon 357
91．Mind Your Manners 361
92．Tug of War 365
93．Edward Jenner Studies Smallpox 369
94．The Tree of Life 373
95．Animal Homes 377
96．Polar Bear 381
97．Too Much for the Whistle 385
98．The Idea of Wedding 389
99．The Lady or the Tiger（Ⅰ） 393
100．The Lady or the Tiger（Ⅱ） 397
101．The Lady or the Tiger（Ⅲ） 401
Appendixes： 406
Common Idioms 406
Vocabulary 423