CONTENTS 1
1.Too Little Time! 1
2.A True Story 4
3.Automobiles in the U.S.A 8
4.As Old as the Hills 11
5.The Big State of Texas 14
6.High Style 16
7.Driving Home from Work 19
8.The Congress of the United States 21
9.Should There Be a Law? 25
10.A Folksong 29
11.Steve's Party 32
12.A House with a View 35
13.A Letter to a Furniture Store 38
14.I Have Been Here Before 41
15.The Three Wishes 44
16.Whose Keys Are These? 47
17.Audubon,a Scie ntist Who Loved Nature 50
18.Mr.Ellis Remembers 53
19.The Generation Gap 56
20.Families of the Past,Pre sent.and Future 58
55.The Time to Learn,Part Ⅲ 1 59
21.Wa lt Whitman,Poet of Ame rican Democracy 61
22.An Appreciation of Animals 64
23.Women's Liberation in the U.S.A 67
24.At the Art Show 70
25.The Best American Restaurants 72
26.Hungry for Hamburgers 75
27.The Wrong Movie 77
28.The Big Business of Advertising 80
29.A Television Commercial 82
30.Old New Mexico,the Story of a State 84
31.Frank Lloyd Wright,an Artist in Architecture 87
32.Find the Library 90
33.Violence on Television 93
34.After a Visit to Canada 96
35.Summer Jobs 99
36.Useful Inventions from the Space Program 102
37.Cars for Tomorrow 106
38.Getting Advice from Strangers 109
39.A Letter to Dear Abby 112
40.Water Sports in a Dry State 115
41.What Do You Call That? 118
42.When Were You Born? 120
43.The Fall of the House of Usher,by Edgar Allan Poe,Part Ⅰ 123
44.The Fall of the House of Usher,Part Ⅱ 126
45.The Fall of the House of Usher,Part Ⅲ 129
46.The Fall of the House of Usher,Part Ⅳ 132
47.The Fall of the Hou se of Usher,Part Ⅴ 135
48.The Fall of the House of Usher,Part Ⅵ 138
49.A Writer Who Understood Boys 141
50.Painting Aunt Polly's Fence,Part Ⅰ 144
51.Painting Aunt Polly's Fence,Part Ⅱ 147
52.Painting Aunt Polly's Fence,Part Ⅲ 150
53.The Time to Learn,Part Ⅰ 153
54.The Time to Learn,Part Ⅱ 156
56.The Time to Learn,Part Ⅳ 162
57.The Time to Learn,Part Ⅴ 165
58.The Time to Learn,Part Ⅵ 168
APPENDIX 1 171
APPENDIX 2 182
Suggestions to the Teacher 197