Unit One 1
1·A Tips for Working Parents—from Kids 1
1·B Radar 6
1·C Conflicting Attitudes towards Polio 11
Unit Two 16
2·A Mysteries of the Sea 16
2·B The Planemakers 20
2·C Bringing up Children 24
Unit Three 29
3·A What We Must Teach Our Children 29
3·B The Beginning of English History 33
3·C Stand for Freedom,Speak for Humanity 38
Unit Four 43
4·A Dave Johnson 43
4·B John Harold Johnson 47
4·C Excuse Me,Please 51
Unit Five 57
5·A Finding a Doctor 57
5·B Burning up Money and Yourself 61
5·C Building a Better Keyboard 66
Unit Six 71
6·A Of Studies 71
6·B The Fine Art of Encouragement 76
6·C On Buying Books 81
Unit Seven 87
7·A A Million-Dollar Smile 87
7·B Energy Sense Makes Future Sense 92
7·C Gun Control 97
Unit Eight 103
8·A Royal Houses 103
8·B The Great powers of the World in 1500 107
8·C Political Aspects of the English Renaissance 112
Unit Nine 117
9·A A People on the Move 117
9·B Facing a Different Culture 121
9·C Wake uP Your Life And Smooth the wrinklesfrom Your Soul 126
Unit Ten 132
10·A How to Argue with Your Boss 132
10·B The Importance of Being Likable 137
10·C A Punk and His Hero 142
After-class Readings 147
1．The Whale 147
2．How Grandpa Came into the Money 149
3．Mystery in the Mangroves 152
4．Portrait of a Superbrat 155
5．Mind over Cancer 158
6．A Stroke of Luck 160
7．Reading Instruction:PRO—How the PROS Study-read 162
8．Ming China 166
9．Television Addiction 169
10．The Smartest People Are Sometimes Fools 172
Key to Exercises of Unit One—Unit Ten 175