Content 3
Band Ⅰ 3
Unit 1 Early Bird 3
Unit 2 Suntan and Society 6
Unit 3 Settling down in England 9
Unit 4 The Planet Mercury 13
Unit 5 Where to Eat,Drink and Meet? 17
Unit 6 Balance of Nature 21
Unit 7 A Story in a Cold Day 25
Unit 8 Pygmalion 29
Unit 9 Have You Ever Seen a Flying Saucer? 33
Unit 10 Newspaper and Other Mass Media 37
Unit 11 The Calculation of Averages 40
Unit 12 Plastic—Man's Most Useful Material 44
Unit 13 The Empire State Building 48
Unit 14 Medical Treatment 52
Unit 15 How New York Became America's Largest City? 56
Unit 16 South American Indians 60
Unit 17 Who Killed the Ballet Star? 64
Unit 18 The Electric Telegraph 68
Unit 19 Sleep 72
Unit 20 The Death of Socrates 76
Band Ⅱ 81
Unit 1 Museums in the Modern World 81
Unit 2 Sales Representative 85
Unit 3 Engineer 90
Unit 4 Contemporary American Society 94
Unit 5 A Marriage of Convenience 98
Unit 6 Clocks Through Time 103
Unit 7 Henry Ford 107
Unit 8 Why Do We Study Math? 112
Unit 9 Education in the United States 116
Unit 10 Americans and the World 120
Unit 11 Two Ways of Life 124
Unit 12 Population Growth and Industry 128
Unit 13 Artificial Waterway 133
Unit 14 The University,Past and Present 138
Unit 15 Noise in Hospital 142
Unit 16 Civilization and the History 147
Unit 17 Religions in the U.S.A 152
Unit 18 What Use Is Philosophy? 156
Unit 19 How Well Do You See? 160
Unit 20 American Stores 164
Keys 169