Lesson 1 Phone-in on China 1
Lesson 2 Nothing Succeeds like Excess 9
Lesson 3 The Colours of Peace 16
Lesson 4 To Retire or Not to Retire 22
Lesson 5 As Some May One Day See 28
Lesson 6 Gazelle Boy （Ⅰ） 34
Lesson 7 Gazelle Boy （Ⅱ） 40
Lesson 8 The Blue Plastic Duck 45
Lesson 9 Firmest Rule in the Book 51
Lesson 10 Men from Scotland Yard 57
Lesson 11 Conservation——or Wasted Effort? 63
Lesson 12 Detective Stories 69
Lesson 13 Nothing Important,Clearly 74
Lesson 14 Encounter 80
Lesson 15 Advertising 86
Lesson 16 Those Were the Days 92
Lesson 17 Storms in a Teacup 97
Lesson 18 The Badger's Home 103
Lesson 19 Any Other Business? 108
Lesson 20 Theories of the Universe 115
Lesson 21 Where Mother Was 121
Lesson 22 Power from the Atom 127
Lesson 23 Mrs Russell's Birthday 133
Lesson 24 Generation Gap 138
Lesson 25 Star Wars—and Einstein 143
Lesson 26 Mrs Ramsay's Pearls 150
Lesson 27 The Mississippi 156
Lesson 28 Enormous Debt 163
Lesson 29 My Wonderful Lousy Poem 170
Lesson 30 The Purification of Water 178
Lesson 31 The Planemakers 185
Lesson 32 Nuclear Energy 193
Lesson 33 Modern Examinations 200
Lesson 34 "The Light in the Window" 209
Lesson 35 The Last Years of Einstein 218
Appendix Ⅰ Phrases and Expressions 226
Appendix Ⅱ Proper Names 233
Appendix Ⅲ New Words 240