1 Learning a Language 1
2 George's Little Joke 4
3 The Future Telephones 8
4 Coming Home 11
5 An Elephant for Our Zoo 14
6 Why the Oxford Student Lost His Supper? 17
7 Galileo 20
8 Find a Way 24
9 The Missing Necklace 29
10 Telling Jokes 32
11 The Wonderful Visit toMiss Liberty(Ⅰ) 36
12 The Wonderful Visit to Miss Liberty(Ⅱ) 39
13 The King Who Was Never Wrong(Ⅰ) 43
14 The King Who Was Never Wrong(Ⅱ) 47
15 The Old Man and His Grandson 51
16 Have I the Right to Do What I Like with My Own? 54
17 The Magic Silk 57
18 The Secret Scar 60
19 Paper and Pencils 63
20 Good Service 66
21 An Indian Store 69
22 One Dollar Extra 72
23 Recycling 75
24 Can You Forecast Weather? 79
25 Man Friday 84
26 Important Words 88
27 Grandfather Finds Out 91
28 Taffy 94
29 A Story about White Clothes 98
30 A"Good"Husband 101
31 Eating Habits 104
32 Two in One 107
33 How Tama Saved the Villagers 113
34 What a Surprise 118
35 From the Twenty-Eighth Floor(Ⅰ) 121
36 From the Twenty-Eighth Floor(Ⅱ) 125
Vocabulary 128
Key to Exercises 146