目录 2
第一章 2
1．The Woman Who Wanted to Sing 2
2．What Is a Pony 3
3．Cat Naps 5
4．Lightning 6
5．A Miserly Farmer 8
6．The Olympic Games 10
7．The Mirage 12
8．Life in the Universe 14
9．Dream Came True 17
10．Life of a Buyer 19
11．Helping the Puffins 21
12．My House Was on Fire 24
13．College Students Today 27
14．Who Smokes 29
15．Learning from Stamps 32
16．Helen Keller 35
17．Can Man Fly with Wings 37
18．Good Business 40
19．Irrigation 43
20．First Aid 46
第二章 51
21．Libraries in England 51
22．Song of the Talking Wire 53
23．Baths and Bathing 56
24．Women's Weightlifting in Asia 58
25．Sarah's Gift 60
26．The Au Pair System 62
27．The Rich and the Poor 65
28．A Man's Adventure 67
29．Getting Something to Eat 70
30．A Way to Keep Awake 72
31．A Coin 74
32．The Greatest Sale 77
33．Scarcity 79
34．The Expansion of Metals 82
35．A Pet Trout 86
36．On the Ice 90
第三章 90
37．The Bad Check 91
38．How Strict Should Parents Be with Their Children 94
39．A Great Invention——the Wheel 96
40．A Letter 98
41．The First Use of Forks 100
42．A Man and a Box of Bricks 102
43．Flexible Work Hours 104
44．Turtles' Hibernation 106
45．How Coal Formed 108
46．Gravitation 110
47．Catching Fish 113
48．Narcissus 115
49．November the Fifth 117
50．Man-Made Mountain 119
51．Why Vitamins 121
52．What a Strange Noise 123
53．The Escape 125
54．How To Deal with the Crying 128
55．He Comes in Second 130
第四章 135
56．Ice Cream 135
57．The Great Predictor 136
58．The Origin of an Expression 139
59．Comets 141
60．Skills and Practice 142
61．A Narrow Escape 144
62．Living Under the Sea 146
63．The Largest Museum of World Architecture 148
64．An Englishman Abroad 150
65．A Forestry Expert 152
66．A Problem of Drinking or Using Drugs 155
67．Hire-Purchase 157
68．Leventhal's Life 160
69．Goals of American Education 162
70．Movies 164
第五章 168
71．Enjoying a Pleasant Evening 168
72．How Anne Oakley Got Her Start 169
73．The Small Black Ants 171
74．The Sun's Energy 172
75．How People Honoured Edison 174
76．Atomic Power 176
77．Helping the People Who Faint 178
78．Taking Pictures 179
79．American Buffalo 180
80．Your Senses of Smell and Taste 182
81．Insects and Plants 184
82．Tokyo—a City Rebuilt 186
83．Taking a Cooking Job 188
84．An Announcement 191
85．The Invention of Printing 193
86．Leisure 195
87．A Good Habor 197
88．Originality 199
89．The Human Mind 201
90．Columbus' First Landing 204
91．Celestial Navigation 206
92．The Formation of Glaciers 208
93．Impressions of the British people 210
94．Modest And Confident 212
95．Pollution of the Gulf War 215
96．Our Polluted Planet 218
97．Keep the Torch Burning 220
98．A Stolen Car 223
99．Pollution 225
100．The Laser 228
附：练习参考答案 231