Unit 1
Part A Cambridge——the University Town 1
CONTENTS 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10
Part B Ⅰ Oxford 14
Ⅱ The First Day in a Polytechnic in London 17
Part C Capitalization 23
Part A New York City 27
Part B 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
Part A Atomic Cars 66
Part B Ⅰ 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
Part A Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well？ 98
Part B Ⅰ Foreign Language Study in America 116
Ⅱ How To Give a Good Speech 125
Part C Punctuation（Ⅱ） 132
Part A Alfred Nobel——A Man of Contrasts 135
Part B Ⅰ 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
Part A The Midnight Visitor 183
Part B Ⅰ The Prince and the Judge 202
Ⅱ Patients Needed 210
Part C Paragraph Main Idea 217
Part D Word Order（Ⅱ） 224
Part A Out of College and Into the Red 230
Part B Ⅰ The Cost of Education 246
Ⅱ The College at Deep Springs 254
Part C Concession 262
Part A Noah Webster 265
Part B Ⅰ British and American English 284
Ⅱ Steinmetz：Electrical Genius 290
Part C Using a Dictionary（Ⅰ） 301
Part D The Passive Voice 307
Part A The Discovery of Radar 312
Part B Ⅰ Glass Goes Modern 328
Ⅱ “Ever Tried Talking to a Computer？” 335
Part C Using a Dictionary（Ⅱ） 341
Part D Introductory It 350
Part A Blacks and Whites 353
Part B “I Have a Dream” 370
Part C The Article 382
Review Ⅱ （Units 6—10） 389