CONTENTS

1．Our Beautiful World

2．The Sun

3．The World Population

4．Dining in A．D．2001

5．The Legendary Roof of the World

6．Labour and Man

7．A Clever Man

8．Cinderella—A Fable

9．Dickens and His Cat

10．Why Crabs Walk Sideways

11．The Importance of English

12．Tea

13．Animal Mimics

14．Trouble with Police

15．London and New York

16．School City

17．The Beautiful Horse

18．Sir Isaac Newton

19．The Trojan Horse（Ⅰ）

20．The Trojan Horse（Ⅱ）

21．Bad Habits…………………………8l

22．Are Sounds Useful or Harmful

23．Oil in the Earth

24．An Old Miser’s Funeral

25．The U．K

26．Look Carefully and Learn

27．The Moon in the Well

28．Scheherazade

29．Old Albert（Ⅰ）

30．Old Albert（Ⅱ）

31．Moderate

32．Where Did Americans Come from ？

33．Space Shuttle

34．Examination

35．Mount Fuji

36．The story of Clock

37．Unbelievable

38．Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves（Ⅰ）

39．Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves（Ⅱ）

40．Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves（Ⅲ）

41．Literature

42．The President’s Modern Secretary

43．Acupuncture

44．Two Photographers

45．A Pronunciation Trouble

46．Honest Work

47．I’m Not Lost

48．Hans Christian Andersen

49．A Piper（Ⅰ）

50．A Piper（Ⅱ）

51．Is That the Dead Duck？

52．Smokingand Health

53．The Twins’Trouble

54．Four Inches Too Short

55．Leisure and Private Life in England

56．A Lesson of Politeness

57．A Sleep for Twenty Years

58．The Nobel Prize

59．Old Medicine

60．Magic Mirror

61．How Glad I Am to Be a Boy

62．Athletics for Girls

63．Robot

64．Filling a Basket with Water

65．The OlympianGames

66．The Old Peasant and the King

67．The Proud Princess

68．Marco Polo

69．Stories About Cats

70．Cosmetics

71．The Story of My Life

72．Fun Run

73．Water，Steam and Ice

74．A Clever Servant

75．Swimming the Channel

76．A Heroic Doctor

77．Little Gauss

78．Sleeping Beauty（Ⅰ）

79．Sleeping Beauty（Ⅱ）

80．Sleeping Beauty（Ⅲ）

81．Good for the Mice

82．Do You Know Coal？

83．How to Keep Strong

84．A Clever Farmer

85．At the Waxworks Exhibition

86．‘I Must Make Haste’

87．Science and Human Life

88．Atoms，Plants and the Sea

89．Eyes’Reactions

90．A Talk with Napoleon

91．Mind Your Manners

92．Tug of War

93．Edward Jenner Studies Smallpox

94．The Tree of Life

95．Animal Homes

96．Polar Bear

97．Too Much for the Whistle

98．The Idea of Wedding

99．The Lady or the Tiger（Ⅰ）

100．The Lady or the Tiger（Ⅱ）

101．The Lady or the Tiger（Ⅲ）

Appendixes：

Common Idioms

Vocabulary