Lesson 1 The Middle Eastern Bazaar 1
Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the"Liveliest"City in Japan&Jacques Danvoir 19
Lesson 3 Ships in the Desert&Al Gore 41
Lesson 4 Everyday Use&Alice Walker 63
Lesson 5 Speech on Hitler's Invasion ofthe U.S.S.R&Winston S.Churchill 82
Lesson 6 Blackmail&Arthur Hailey 103
Lesson 7 The Age of Miracle Chips&From Time 129
Lesson 8 An Interactive Life&Barbara Kantrowitz and Joshua C.Ramo 153
Lesson 9 Mark Twain—Mirror of America&Noel Grove 171
Lesson 10 The Trial That Rocked the World&John Scopes 198
Lesson 11 But What's a Dictionary For?&Bergen Evans 238
Lesson 12 The Loons&Margaret Laurence 258
Lesson 13 Britannia Rues the Waves&Andrew Neil 281
Lesson 14 Argentia Bay&Herman Wouk 306
Lesson 15 No Signposts in the Sea&V.Sackville-West 357
Lesson 16 1776&Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards 384
APpendix Ⅰ Paraphrase 441
Appendix Ⅱ Word-Formation 447
Appendix Ⅲ Figures of Speech 465