1．Reminiscences of an Interview with Chairman Mao Zedong on the Paper Tiger...Anna Louise Strong 1
2．Home Is the Soldier...Alexander Saxton 16
3．The Sun Has Risen（Ⅰ）...Ma Feng 29
4．The Sun Has Risen（Ⅱ）...Ma Feng 42
5．The Study of Words...Robert Winter 52
6．Art for Heart's Sake（Ⅰ）...Rube Goldberg 67
7．Art for Heart's Sake（Ⅱ）...Rube Goldberg 78
8．Severe Home Disci pline（An Extract from The Way of All Flesh）...Samuel Butler 87
English Proficiency Test（No.1，L L.1-8） 102
9．Sister Carrie at a Shoe Factory（Ⅰ）（An Extract from Sister Carrie）...Theodore Dreiser 111
10．Sister Carrie at a Shoe Factory（Ⅱ）（An Extract fromSister Carrie）...Theodore Dreiser 123
11．Lenin's Death...Harry Pollitt 136
12．A Young Doctor's Predicament（An Extract from The Citadel）...A.Cronin 148
13．London 161
14．Augustus Does His Bit（Ⅰ）...Bernard Shaw 174
15．Augustus Does His Bit（Ⅱ）...Bernard Shaw 196
16．Monseigneur in Town（An Extract from A Tale of Two Cities）...Charles Dickens 210
English Proficiency Test（No.2，LL.9-16） 225
17．Two Poems： 237
a）Song to the Men of England...Percy Bysshe Shelley 237
b）On the Grasshopper and Cricket...John Keats 245
Supplementary Readings 247
1．The Problem of Combating Erroneous Tendencies within the Party（To be read after L.1） 247
2．Negro Problems in the USA（To be read after L.2） 249
3．Two Brothers（To be read after LL.3＆4） 252
4．Linguistics（To be read after L.5） 257
5．The Open Boat（To be read after LL.6＆7） 262
6．A First Experience with Words（To be read after L.8） 264
7．The Crossroads（To be read after LL.9＆10） 268
8．The Path of the Great Lenin（To be read after L.11） 271
9．Work and Happiness（To be read after L.12） 274
10．Paris（To be read after L.13） 277
11．G.B.S.and the Nobel Prize（To be read after LL.14＆15） 281
12．Monseigneur in the Country（To be read after L.16） 284
Key to English Proficiency Test（No.1，LL.1-8） 286
Key to English Proficiency Test（No.2，LL.9-16） 288
Bibliography 290