CONTENTS 3
Section Ⅰ 3
1 The Valuable Teeth 3
2 The Magic Words 6
3 Flight Insurance 9
4 A Thief in the Bus 12
5 The Biggest and the Gentlest 15
6 Overhead Bridge 18
7 The Ant 22
8 A Letter to the Theatre Manager 25
9 Page from a Notebook 28
10 Oh,that Garden! 32
11 The Man Who Never Put a Foot Wrong 36
12 Boy Rescued from Drowning 40
13 A Greek Scholar 43
14 The Water Babies 46
15 The Speed of Light 49
16 Your Passport,Please 53
17 Computer Boyfriends 56
18 Cars and the United States 59
19 Trees 63
20 Planning Ahead 67
21 Working Wives 71
22 The Padre and the Lions 75
23 Bus Services 79
24 “Speaking?” 83
25 Lost and Found 87
26 Bike for a Better City 91
27 Jokes and Doetors 95
28 A Faithful Dog 99
29 Great Inventions 103
30 The Happy Family 107
31 Bad Luck on Saturday 113
Section Ⅱ 113
32 Flextime 116
33 Basketball 119
34 Examination in English 122
35 The Hero 125
36 Who Saved the Baby s Life? 129
37 Where Shall We Go? 133
38 “Me-Books” 137
39 Finger-Prints 141
40 Population Control 145
41 New Arrivals at the Zoo 149
42 The Story without an End 153
43 Growing Old with Dignity 157
44 Crusades 161
45 To Retire or Not to Retire 165
46 Short News Items 169
47 Running Away from Home 173
48 How a Refrigerator Works 177
49 The Truck Driver 181
50 The Patient and the Doctor 185
51 The Actor 189
52 The Thousandth Goal 193
53 One Foggy Day in London 197
54 Umbrella to Kill 201
55 Explosives for Peace 205
56 Helen Keller 209
57 The Poet s Chairs 214
58 “SOLD” 218
59 Firmest Rule in the Book 222
60 My Skin 227
“Words per Minute”Chart 231
Key to Comprehension Exercises 238
Words and Expressions 241