学习之道 1
1．The Processes of Learning 1
2．Studying Your Test Results 4
3．Profession of Teaching 6
4．Marking Books 8
5．You Don't Say! 10
6．Teachers and Parents 13
7．American Education 15
8．Native Language 18
9．Try to Use English 20
10．Learn from Your Mistakes 22
人文科普 25
1．Why Do the Stars Twinkle? 25
2．Life Beyond Earth 27
3．The Influence of Exercise on Pulse Rate 29
4．Sociology 31
5．Our Faces 34
6．Language 36
7．Cycles 37
8．The Bigger,the Better? 39
9．Labor and Work 42
10．Father's Day 44
11．Elections 46
12．Unions 48
13．American Music 50
14．What Is a Poet? 52
15．Discovering the Need for Vitamins 55
1．How to Solve Personal Problems 57
处世点拨 57
2．The Arts of Argument and Persuasion 59
3．Food for Thought 62
4．How to Talk to a Foreigner 65
5．Thank You 68
散文欣赏 71
1．The Best Friend 71
2．Love 73
3．Dusk 75
4．Black Umbrellas,Golden Hearts 78
5．Leaving Home 80
写景状物 83
1．Television 83
2．Statue of Liberty 85
3．Computers 87
4．Credit Cards 89
5．Fast Food Restaurants 91
6．Stone Money,Feather Money 93
7．Different Types and Uses of Kites 94
文体休闲 97
1．The Sports 97
2．Travel in a One-man Submarine 99
3．Hobbies 101
4．Spectator Sports 103
5．X-Sports 105
6．Going Out for a Walk 108
人物逸事 111
1．Sir Isaac Newton Dines off Nothing 111
2．My Grandmother 113
3．The Old Man 116
4．Something about Charles Dickens 117
5．Abraham Lincoln 120
6．Oh Boy,What a Ride! 123
7．My First Visit to School 126
8．Jan.15—Martin Luther King,Dr.'s Birthday 128
9．A Father's Love 130
10．Money Can Not Buy Good Health 133
家庭生活 135
1．A“Quiet” Evening 135
2．Home 138
3．Fixing Faulty Electrical Appliances at Home 140
4．Marriage and Divorce 142
1．The Mice 145
动物世界 145
2．Cats 147
3．Our Friends—Spiders 150
故事小品 153
1．Would That You Were Hanged? 153
2．Final Exam 155
3．The Little Match-Girl 157
4．The Birth of the Messiah 161
5．An Advertisement 162
6．When Can You Start? 164
7．Mom's Little Guide 166
8．Have You Reported This Accident? 168
9．The Perfect Women(Ⅰ) 171
10．The Perfect Women(Ⅱ) 174
11．At Restaurant 177
12．You Never Know(Ⅰ) 179
13．You Never Know(Ⅱ) 181
14．A Fish Dish 183
15．Standing Just for Equality 185
16．Crossing a River 187
社会观察 189
1．What a Credit Card Brings to Us 189
2．The Use of Telephone 192
3．Choice 194
4．It Is Women Who Changed History 196
5．On Memorial Day 198
6．Intelligence 201
7．On Friends 203
8．Hollywood Pictures 205
9．The Industrial Life 207
10．Why People Work? 210
11．The Fate of Animals 212
12．Drugs 214
13．Dangers in Life 216
14．Housing 219
15．Smoking 221
16．Different Consumption Habits 223
17． Women Are Good Problem-solvers 225
名人演讲 227
1．Famous Passages from the Inaugural Addresses of the American Presidents 227
2．The World Will Always Remember September 11 233
附 录 237
附录 英语常用谚语 237