Ⅰ.Texts 3
1.Four Men and a Box 3
2.Why not Speed up Your Reading？ 15
3.Post Haste 25
4.In Defence of English Cooking 35
5.Travels with Charley 45
6.Man’s Most Important Invention 55
7.Soccer’s Wild World Cup Scramble 69
8.The Laws of Nature 83
9.English in Newspapers 93
10.The Luncheon 103
11.Informal，Formal，and Technical Language 115
12.There’s No Way to Go bur Ahead 124
13.Sow the Wind 137
14.Making Surgery Safe 148
15.Letter to My Nephew 161
16.The Cat and the Painkiller 173
17.Grandpa Assists at a Seance 185
18.Woman Photographer 197
19.Early Impressions 209
20.America：Image and Reality 219
Ⅱ.Fast Reading 235
1.The Mayflower 235
2.A French Boy’s Adventures in Canada 241
3.The First Postage stamp 248
4.The Race across the Atlantic Ocean 255
5.San Francisco 261
6.The Silent Language Introduction 266
7.Marco Polo 273
8.Learning about Earthquakes 279
9.the Origin of Some Everyday Courtesies 284
10.Death of a Clerk 290
11.Learning New Words 298
12.Our Vanishing Resources 306
13.The Man in the Wicker Basket 312
14.The Search for New Drugs 320
15.Put in Your Few Cents’Worth 326
16.Glass 332
17.The First lnvasion of Britain 339
18.Tighten Your Belt 347
19.Fiery Day of Ceremony for Olympic Rome 355
20.The United Stales 361