CONTENTS 1
Passage 1．The Gift of Language 1
Passage 3．Earthquake 1 1
Passage 2．The Thousand and One Nights 6
Passage 4．Hunters of Big Game 16
Passage 5．She Painted Her Memory(Ⅰ) 21
Passage 6．She Painted Her Memory(Ⅱ) 26
Passage 7．From the Heart of a Stranger 31
Passage 8．Life in Denmark 37
Passage 9．First Aid 42
Passage 10．The Lady with the Lamp 48
Passage 11．Androcles and the Lion(Ⅰ) 53
Passage 12．Androcles and the Lion(Ⅱ) 58
Passage 13 The Floating Tomb 63
Passage 14．The Day the World Blew Up 69
Passage 15．Some Strange Joumeys 74
Passage 16．The Mustard Seed 80
Passage 17．Self-service and the Supermarket 85
Passage 18．Attitudes towards Work 90
Passage 19．Mass Media and Traditional Culture 95
Passage 20．Blue Is the Sky 101
Passage 21．“Wolf Ho!” 106
Passage 22．The Secret of Sleep 111
Passage 23．Climates of the World(Ⅰ) 118
Passage 24．Climates of the World(Ⅱ) 124
Passage 25．Man and the Killers 129
Passage 26 Killing Pain(Ⅰ) 135
Passage 27．Killing Pain(Ⅱ) 141
Passage 28．What s New 147
Passage 29．Watching TV(Ⅰ) 153
Passage 30．Watching TV(Ⅱ) 158
Passage 31．How Stanley Found Livingstone(Ⅰ) 165
Passage 32．How Stanley Found Livingstone(Ⅱ) 170
Passage 33．Soccer:The World Cup (Ⅰ) 175
Passage 34．Soccer:The World Cup(Ⅱ) 180
Passage 35．Tennis(Ⅰ) 185
Passage 36．Tennis(Ⅱ) 190
Passage 37．Reading(Ⅰ) 196
Passage 38．Reading (Ⅱ) 202
Passage 39．A Television Production 207
Passage 40．How Hurricanes Get Their Names 213
Key 219