前言 2
一、阅读理解 2
1．Qin Shihuang 2
2．Dong Jianhua 5
3．Learn from Luo Shengjiao 7
4．A Story About Lei Feng 9
5．Sun Xiaomei 11
6．A Snake Doctor 13
7．Norman Bethune 15
8．Karl Marx and Languages 17
9．Lenin,an Honest Boy 19
10．Presidents of the USA 21
11．George Washington 23
12．Thomas Jefferson 26
13．The Gettysburg Address 29
14．Lincoln s Beard 32
15．Kennedy and Lincoln s Death 34
16．Roosevelt 36
17．Bill Clinton 38
18．Churchill and the Taxi-Driver 40
19．Ben Jamin Franklin s Childhood 42
20．John Hancock 44
21．Thomas Edison ,an Inventor 46
22．Remember Edison 48
23．Famous After Death 50
24．Albert Einstein 53
25．Einstein and His Neighbor 55
26．Isaac Newton 57
27．A Man Forgetting His Meals 60
28．Isaac Newton s Egg 62
29．The Beginning of Horsepower 64
30．Galileo s Lost Notes 66
31．Madam Curie 69
32．Careless Ampere 71
33．A Strange Creature 73
34．Halley s Comet 75
35．Faraday 78
36．The Story of Little Gauss 80
37．John James Audubon 83
38．Steven Jobs and His Apple Computer 85
39．Mark Twain 88
40．Mark Twain in France 90
41．Ο.Henry 93
42．Jack London 96
43．I Will Keep My Promise,Too! 98
44．Washington Irving 100
45．John Milton 102
46．Walter Scott 104
47．Charles Dickens 107
48．George Bernard Shaw 109
49．A Poem by Emily Dickinson 112
50．Making Way 114
51．My Work Is Worth the Tip 116
52．Balzac 118
53．Guy de Maupassant 120
54．A Story of Aesop 123
55．Hans Christian Anderson 125
56．Charles Chaplin 128
57．Picasso 131
58．James Thornhill 134
59．Waltgang Amadeus Mozart 136
60．How the Moonlight Sonata Came into Being 138
61．Marco Polo 141
62．Martin Luther King 143
63．Magellan s Trip 145
64．Helen Keller 147
65．Emma Hart Willard 150
66．Shark Ο Neill of NBA 153
67．About Sandwich 155
68．Men Learned to Smoke from Walter Raleigh 157
二、完形填空 160
69．The Story of Little Sima Guang 160
70．Lenin and a Bee-Keeper 162
71．William Henry Harrison 163
72．Vice-President Jefferson 165
73．Mark Twain and His Friend 167
74．Charles Dickens 169
75．Madam Curie s Early Days 171
76．Louis Braile 173
77．Beethoven 175
78．Charlie Chaplin s Films 177
79．A Story About Avanti 179
80．Edison s Wedding 181
81．The Secret of Success 183
82．Joe Hill 185
83．Pushkin 187
84．William Shakespeare 190
85．Jules Verne 192
86．Walt Disney 194
87．Einstein, His Driver and a Professor 197
88．George Stephenson 200
89．Anna Louis Strong 203
90．Lincoln s Death 206
91．Abraham Lincoln 210
三、短文改错 210
92．Edison s Boyhood 212
93．Nathan Hale 213
94．A Lesson for Mencius 214
95．A Raincoat from Premier Zhou 216
96．Li Dazhao 217
97．Einstein and His Driver 218
98．Dr Harvey Gates 220
99．Henry Ford 222
100．About Napoleon 223
101．Galileo and Aristotle 225
102．Mozart and an Old Man 226
参考答案 227
后记 227