Lesson One 1
Reading Text Telephone Calls Intrude on Learning Time 1
Exercises 3
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 3
Ⅱ. Translation 4
Ⅲ. Cloze How to Cope with Your Telephone 4
Key for Reference 7
Lesson Two 9
Reading Text A Roof over Our Heads 9
Exercises 12
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 12
Ⅱ. Translation 14
Ⅲ. Cloze Pioneers' House Building 14
Key for Reference 16
Lesson Three 18
Reading Text The Gift of Fire 18
Exercises 22
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 22
Ⅱ. Translation 22
Ⅲ. Cloze Invention of Wheel 23
Key for Reference 24
Lesson Four 26
Reading Text Life after Death 26
Exercises 32
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 32
Ⅱ. Translation 32
Ⅲ. Cloze On Natural Death 33
Key for Reference 36
Lesson Five 38
Reading Text How Grandpa Came into the Money 38
Exercises 44
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 44
Ⅱ. Translation 45
Ⅲ. Cloze Revenge 46
Key for Reference 48
Lesson Six 50
Reading Text A Miserable Merry Christmas 50
Exercises 57
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 57
Ⅱ. Translation 58
Ⅲ. Cloze Christmas 58
Key for Reference 62
Lesson Seven 64
Reading Text Marriage,American Sryle 64
Exercises 70
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 70
Ⅱ. Translation 71
Ⅲ. Cloze Modern Marriage 72
Key for Reference 74
Lesson Eight 76
Reading Text Your Speech Is Chaging 76
Exercises 82
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 82
Ⅱ. Translation 83
Ⅲ. Cloze Speech 84
Key for Reference 85
Lesson Nine 87
Reading Text Beyond the Battlefield 87
Exercises 94
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 94
Ⅱ. Translation 95
Ⅲ. Cloze Battles and Marriages 96
Key for Reference 98
Lesson Ten 100
Reading Text Is Your Judgment Warped 100
Exercises 106
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 106
Ⅱ. Translation 107
Ⅲ. Cloze Body and Brain 107
Key for Reference 109
Lesson Eleven 111
Reading Text America's First Elephant 111
Exercises 117
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 117
Ⅱ. Translation 118
Ⅲ. Cloze Slaugher of the Elephants 118
Key for Reference 121
Lesson Twelve 123
Reading Text The Fight Agamst the Dowry 123
Exercises 127
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 127
Ⅱ. Translation 128
Ⅲ. Cloze For all Women 128
Key for Reference 131
Lesson Thirteen 133
Reading Text The Truth about thoes "Invisible"Ads 133
Exercises 139
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 139
Ⅱ. Translation 140
Ⅲ. Cloze Ads Target Asian Teens 140
Key for Reference 143
Lesson Fourteen 145
Reading Text Wisdom throuth Delight 145
Exercises 149
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 149
Ⅱ. Translation 150
Ⅲ. Cloze Learning-an Irrational Prosess 150
Key for Reference 153
Lesson Fifteen 155
Reading Text Public Opinion 155
Exercises 160
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 160
Ⅱ. Translation 161
Ⅲ. Cloze Dealing with Your Mistakes 161
Key for Reference 164
Lesson Sixteem 166
Reading Text Look at a Threepenny-piece 166
Exercises 170
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 170
Ⅱ. Translation 170
Ⅲ. Cloze Writhing between the Lines 171
Key for Reference 174
Lesson Seventeen 176
Reading Text Edns and Means 176
Exercises 180
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 180
Ⅱ. Translation 181
Ⅲ. Cloze Learning to Live with Less 181
Key for Reference 185
Lesson Eithteen 187
Reading Text The American Character 187
Exercises 196
Ⅰ. Comprehension Questions 196
Ⅱ. Translation 197
Ⅲ. Cloze A Broken Dream 198
Key for Reference 199