1．Tips On Doing Business With The Araba 1
2．Paper and Its Use 6
3．The Marvels of Colour 10
4．Soccer 15
5．Motherhood in a Cha nging World:Women in Ghana 19
6．Why Don't Girls Think Like Boys? 24
7．How to Give a Good Speech 27
8．The Olympics 33
9．Women in Sports 38
10．Linguistics 44
11．The Age of Automation 50
12．What's In An Indian Name? 55
13．Lasers 60
14．Holidays in the U.S.A 65
15．To the Moon:Astronauts 72
16．Oil 77
17．Settling Down in England 82
18．Disaster in Dayton 87
19．The Air and Its Weight 92
20．Children Past and present 96
21．Planned Cities 100
22．American Speech 105
23．What Do parents Owe Their Children? 111
24．Ben Franklin Achieved his Ambition:He Led a Useful Life 118
25．The Nobel prize 124
26．The Gentleman In White 130
27．Rolf,the Dog Who Finds Things 136
28．Gypises-a Wandering People 143
29．The Man Who Made Mickey Mouse 151
30．Twenty-five Winutes to Live 159
31． Balser's Dream 166
32．The Mixture Which Is British 173
33．Everything Included 179
34．John Harding 181
35．The First Flying Instrument 186
36．Television 189
37．Thomas Edison 192
38．Computer 195
39．Alfred Nobel 199
40．An Introduction to U.S.Geography 205
41．Pollution Is a Dirty Word 211
42．Whp Do We Cry? 216
43．Civilization and History 221
44．Public Holidays 227
45．Time Here and There 231
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