Unit Ⅰ 1
1．A Man Who Swallowed a Horse 1
2．Your Passport,Please 4
3．The Doctor's Advice 7
4．You Worry Too Much! 10
5．A Very Large Bill to Be Paid 13
6．Man's Possible Life Span 16
7．A Wonderful Bicycle 19
8．Oil and Water 22
9．Lunch 25
10．A Bitter Joke 28
11．A Sentence With 5 Words of "And" 31
12．A Physiccal Examination 34
13．Give Him Another Chance 37
14．Church Service 40
15．Standing in Hot Water 43
16．Send Some Men to the Sun 46
17．Fried Food 49
18．Mr Perkin's New Car 52
19．A Red Cross Nurse 55
20．Visiting Conway Castle 58
21．Another Ten Pence 61
22．Mr.Grey's Shop 64
23．In a Small Restaurant 67
24．What Everybody Should Know About Tuberculosis 70
25．A Young Officer 73
26．An Hour Late 76
27．A Potato Farmer 78
28．Proof 81
29．The Man From the Government 84
30．At the Barber's 87
31．Who Will Win? 90
32．A Teacher of the Old School 93
33．How Could You Afford to Buy the Ticket? 96
34．Danger at Port Richards 98
35．Five Minutes of Football 101
36．The Tree of Life 104
37．The Man Who Never Put a Foot Wrong 107
38．Sources of Energy 110
39．Help Your Doctor to Help You 113
40．Washington—the Capital of the U.S.A 116
41．Mark Twain 119
42．Man and Animal 122
43．Current Situation of Organ Transplants 125
44．First Aid 128
45．Ah Fook aud the Doctor 131
46．The Young Man and the Taxi Driver 134
47．Sleep 137
48．The Magic Ointment 140
49．Dawson's Man 144
50．Columbus and the Egg 148
Unit Ⅱ 152
51．Ordinary Aspirin Is Truly a Wonder Drug 152
52．The Story of Helen Keller 156
53．Tobacco 160
54．Spare Parts for the Human Body 165
55．Self-Medication 170
56．Gross Anatomy of the Trunk 175
57．The Measurement of the Compartments of the Body 179
58．Night Sister 183
59．Come to Britain 188
60．Lasers—Technology for the Future 193
61．The Honest Pickpocket 198
62．Meteor-psychology 202
63．The Great Wall of China 207
64．A Bear Called Paddington 211
65．Sir Alexander Fleming 216
66．The Up-to-date Way of Keeping up to Date 220
67．The Library 224
68．Indigestion 229
69．Mind and Body 234
70．The Preservation of Food 239
71．Life in the Universe 244
72．Emergency 249
73．The World of Robots 254
74．The Crime of the Month 259
75．Sounder 264
76．Why the Doctor Was Late 269
77．Animal Intelligence 274
78．Madame Curie and Radium 279
79．The Boxcar Children 284
80．The Story of Robots 289
81．The Lonely Voyage 294
82．It's Not the End of the World 299
83．Man and the Killers 304
84．The Discoverer of X-rays 310
85．John Hunter:the First Surgeon 316
86．The Door Swings Open 322
87．Microbes 328
88．The Clever Judge and the Stolen Money 333
89．Isaac Newton 338
90．Coffee 343
91．Kwashiorkor 348
92．Jenner Studies Smallpox 353
93．Rabies 358
94．A Modern X-ray Device Will Soon Be Used in Clinic 363
95．Influenza 367
96．How to Study 372
97．Malaria 378
98．The Techniques of Genetic Engineering First Used on Humans 383
99．Underdeveloped People 388
100．The Work of Louis Pasteur 393
Unit Ⅲ 399
101．Faster Effective Reading 399
102．Obstacles to Faster Effective Reading 405
103．Hints for Reading Practice 411
104．Lister's Spray 416
105．Smallpox 422
106．Canning Food 427
107．Left Holding the Baby 432
108．Dried Food 438
109．Physical Fitness 443
110．Smoking and Cancer 448
111．Bringing up Children(1) 454
112．Bringing up Children(2) 460
113．Vitamins 466
114．Diagnosis 471
115．The United Nations 477
116．The Story of Doctor Dolittle 482
117．The Electrocardiograph 487
118．The Process of Digestion 491
119．Little House in the Big Woods 495
120．Are We Haying Too Much Sleep or Not Enough? 500
121．The Study of Cell Structure 505
122．Modern Surgery 510
123．The Heart 516
124．Yellow Fever 521
125．Daily Cycle of Activity 526
126．Dr.Ice Cream 532
127．The Nervous System 538
128．Killing Pain(1) 543
129．Killing Pain(2) 549
130．Mending Faces 554
131．What You Don't Know About Exercise 559
132．The Bacteriology of Water 565
133．Epithelial Tissue 571
134．Immunity 576
135．Leprosy 581
136．Techniques in the Study of Cell Structure 586
137．You Come into the Story 592
138．The 1918 Influenza Epidemic 596
139．A Winter to Remember 600
140．Practical Jokes 605
141．The World Population 610
142．My First Job 615
143．Thomas Edison's Inventions 621
144．Heart Action 627
145．A Time for Courage 633
146．He led a Usefull Life 640
147．What's Happening in Surgery? 646
148．Milk 653
149．Clumsy World for Lefty 659
150．V-day in the Polio War 667