CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
Lesson Five
Text A:Our College:A Conversation
Text B:Public Libraries in the U. S
Lesson Six
Text A: A Letter from Beijing
Text B: How Li Xiaohu Organizes his Time
Lesson Seven
Text A: A Part-time Waitress
Text B: Fast-food Restaurants in the United States
Lesson Eight
Text A: Spring Festival
Text B: Christmas
Lesson Nine
Text A: Aesop's Fables
Text B: Aesop
Lesson Ten
Revision ( I )
Test Paper No. 2
Lesson Eleven
Text A: Deserts
Text B: How did Death Valley Get its Name?
Lesson Twelve
Text A: Kino and his Pearl
Text B: When News of the Pearl Reached the Town
Lesson Thirteen
Text A: Women's Liberation: a Long Way to Go
Text B: What About Women's Liberation?
Lesson Fourteen
Text A: How New York Became America's Largest City
Text B; Glimpses of New York
Lesson Fifteen
Text A: Ben Flies a Kite
Text B: The Education of Benjamin Franklin
Lesson Sixteen
Rerision ( II )
Test Paper No. 3
BOOK TWO
Lesson One
Text A: Good Manners in England
Text B: Punctuality
Lesson Two
Text A: Thomas Jefferson
Text B: Jefferson and Hamilton
Lesson Three
Text A: The Story of the Enormous Bell
Text B: The Magnificent Yong Le Bell
Lesson Four
Text A: Why There Is Crime
Text B: Limiting Handguns
Lesson Five
Text A: 1 can Work Like any Guy
Text B: The Fisherman's Wife
Lesson Six
Text A: Cambridge -- the University Town
Text B: The British Educational System
Lesson Seven
Text A: Using the Sun's Energy
Text B: The Petroleum Industry
Lesson Eight
Revision ( 1 )
Test Paper No. 1
Lesson Nine
Text A: The Discoverer of X-rays
Text B: He Called it Penicillin
Lesson Ten
Text A: Biographies Bring New Companions
Text B: The Pleasures of Reading
Lesson Eleven
Text A: The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
Text B: The Pedlar and the King
Lesson Twelve
Text A: Computers Concern You
Text B: The Young Industry of Electronics
Lesson Thirteen
Text A: The Lucky Londoner
Text B: What the Blacks Did in American History
Lesson Fourteen
Text A: The Reward
Text B: Sarah Houghton
Lesson Fifteen
Text A: Netty Sargent and the Dead Man's Hand
Test B: The Man Who Had No Eyes
Lesson Sixteen
Revision ( II )
Test Paper No. 2
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