Unit1 1
Part A Cambridge——the University Town 1
Part B 14
Ⅰ Oxford 14
Ⅱ The First Day in a Polytechnic in London 17
Part C Capitalization 23
Unit2 27
Part A New York City 27
Part B 40
Ⅰ New York 40
Ⅱ The Man Who Planned the City of Washington 46
Part C Learning Skills for Reading(Ⅰ) 56
Part D Punctuation(Ⅰ) 61
Unit3 66
Part A Atomic Cars 66
Part B 79
Ⅰ 79
A Intellingence 79
B Intelligence Tests 83
Ⅱ Biological Clock 86
Part C Learning Skills for Reading（Ⅱ） 91
Part D Possibility and Probability 96
Unit4 98
Part A Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well? 98
Part B 116
Ⅰ Foreign Language Study in America 116
Ⅱ How to Give a Good Speech 125
Part C Punctuation(Ⅱ) 132
Unit5 135
Part A Alfred Nobel—A Man of Contrasts 135
Part B 147
Ⅰ 147
A The Nobel Prizes 147
B How a Nobel Prizewinner Is Chosen 151
Ⅱ Postmen with Feathers 154
Part C Reading for the Main Idea 161
Part D Word Order(Ⅰ) 171
Review Ⅰ(Units 1－5) 176
Unit6 183
Part A The Midnight Visitor 183
Part B 202
Ⅰ The Prince and the Judge 202
Ⅱ Patients Needed 210
Part C Paragraph Main Idea 217
Part D Word Order(Ⅱ) 224
Unit7 230
Part A Out of College and Into the Red 230
Part B 246
Ⅰ The Cost of Education 246
Ⅱ The College at Deep Springs 254
Part C Concession 262
Unit8 265
Part A Noah Webster 265
Part B 284
Ⅰ British and American English 284
Ⅱ Steinmetz：Electrical Genius 290
Part C Using a Dictionary(Ⅰ) 301
Part D The Passive Voice 307
Unit9 312
Part A The Discovery of Radar 312
Part B 328
Ⅰ Glass Goes Modem 328
Ⅱ“Ever Tried Talking to a Computer?” 335
Part C Using a Dictionary(Ⅱ) 341
Part D Introductory It 350
Unit10 353
Part A Blacks and Whites 353
Part B “I Have a Dream” 370
Part C The Article 382
Review Ⅱ(Units 6-10) 389