CONTENTS 1
1 Finding Fossil Man by ROBIN PLACE 1
2 Spare that Spider by T．H．GILLESPIE 10
3 Matterhorn by WALTER UNSWORTH 22
4 Seeing Hands Man by ERIC DE MAUNY 33
5 No Room in the Ark by ALAN MOOREHEAD 40
6 From Out of the Air by FIELDEN HUGHES 48
7 The Sporting Spirit by GEORGE ORWELL 57
8 Education by W．O．LESTER SMITH 63
9 Curiosities of Animal Life by MAURICE BURTON 69
10 Thoughts in the Wilderness by J．B．PRIESTLEY 77
11 Spies in Britain by BERNARD NEWMAN 86
12 The Language of Hollywood by JAMES T．FARRELL 97
13 Thames Waters by ROGER PILKINGTON 104
14 How to Grow Old by BERTRAND RUSSELL 112
15 The Consumer Society and the Law by GORDON BARRIEAND AUBREY L．DIAMOND 120
16 The Search for the Earth s Minerals by T．F．GASKELL 127
17 Learning to Live by BEATRIX TUDOR-HART 133
18 The Social Function of Science by J．D．BERNAL 141
19 English Social Differences by T．H．PEAR 148
20 Man,the Unknown by ALEXIS CARREL 158
21 Science Makes Sense by RITCHIE CALDER 168
22 Window in the Sea by RALPH NADING HILL 181
23 The Stuff of Dreams by CHRISTOPHER EVANS 197
24 Going Out for a Walk by MAX BEERBOHM 208
25 The Snake by JOHN CROM？TON 220
26 Virtue and a Fast Gun by CARL FOREMAN 229
27 The Personality of Man by G．N．M．TYRRELL 242
28 A Countryman s Creed by WILLIAM BEACH THOMAS 251
29 Pieces of Mind by C．E．M．JOAD 264
30 Adventures of Ideas by A．N．WHITEHEAD 276
附录一：攻读硕士学位研究生英语试题 284
（1981年—1985年） 284