CONT ENTS 1
TEXTS 1
1．The Gift of Language 1
2．The Story of Writing 6
3．The Magic Ointment 11
4．Bird Man 16
5．More Bird Man 21
6．Good Manners 26
7．Ah Fook and the Doctor 31
8．The Mouse King Chooses a Bridegroom 35
9．Whale Hunting 39
10．The Sleepy Magicians 43
11．Androcles and the Lion：Ⅰ 47
12．Androcles and the Lion：Ⅱ 52
13．The Post Office 56
14．How Tea Came to Asia 60
15．The Strange History of Ping-Pong 65
16．Killing Pain：Ⅰ 70
17．Killing Pain：Ⅱ 75
18．The Day the World Blew Up 80
19．The Story of Helen Keller 84
20．Kon-Tiki 86
21．Tornadoes 91
22．It’s a Small World 94
23．How New York Became America’s Largest City 97
24．The Gifts：Ⅰ 101
25．The Gifts：Ⅱ 107
26．The First Man in Space 112
27．The Discoverer of X Rays 118
28．John Hunter：the First Surgeon 124
29．Rockets 130
30．The Dawn of the Air Age 135
31．The Power of the Atom 141
NOTES 148
APPENDICES 197
ANSWERS TO EXERCISES 197
VOCABULARY 239