目录

第一章

1．The Woman Who Wanted to Sing

2．What Is a Pony

3．Cat Naps

4．Lightning

5．A Miserly Farmer

6．The Olympic Games

7．The Mirage

8．Life in the Universe

9．Dream Came True

10．Life of a Buyer

11．Helping the Puffins

12．My House Was on Fire

13．College Students Today

14．Who Smokes

15．Learning from Stamps

16．Helen Keller

17．Can Man Fly with Wings

18．Good Business

19．Irrigation

20．First Aid

第二章

21．Libraries in England

22．Song of the Talking Wire

23．Baths and Bathing

24．Women's Weightlifting in Asia

25．Sarah's Gift

26．The Au Pair System

27．The Rich and the Poor

28．A Man's Adventure

29．Getting Something to Eat

30．A Way to Keep Awake

31．A Coin

32．The Greatest Sale

33．Scarcity

34．The Expansion of Metals

35．A Pet Trout

36．On the Ice

第三章

37．The Bad Check

38．How Strict Should Parents Be with Their Children

39．A Great Invention——the Wheel

40．A Letter

41．The First Use of Forks

42．A Man and a Box of Bricks

43．Flexible Work Hours

44．Turtles' Hibernation

45．How Coal Formed

46．Gravitation

47．Catching Fish

48．Narcissus

49．November the Fifth

50．Man-Made Mountain

51．Why Vitamins

52．What a Strange Noise

53．The Escape

54．How To Deal with the Crying

55．He Comes in Second

第四章

56．Ice Cream

57．The Great Predictor

58．The Origin of an Expression

59．Comets

60．Skills and Practice

61．A Narrow Escape

62．Living Under the Sea

63．The Largest Museum of World Architecture

64．An Englishman Abroad

65．A Forestry Expert

66．A Problem of Drinking or Using Drugs

67．Hire-Purchase

68．Leventhal's Life

69．Goals of American Education

70．Movies

第五章

71．Enjoying a Pleasant Evening

72．How Anne Oakley Got Her Start

73．The Small Black Ants

74．The Sun's Energy

75．How People Honoured Edison

76．Atomic Power

77．Helping the People Who Faint

78．Taking Pictures

79．American Buffalo

80．Your Senses of Smell and Taste

81．Insects and Plants

82．Tokyo—a City Rebuilt

83．Taking a Cooking Job

84．An Announcement

85．The Invention of Printing

86．Leisure

87．A Good Habor

88．Originality

89．The Human Mind

90．Columbus' First Landing

91．Celestial Navigation

92．The Formation of Glaciers

93．Impressions of the British people

94．Modest And Confident

95．Pollution of the Gulf War

96．Our Polluted Planet

97．Keep the Torch Burning

98．A Stolen Car

99．Pollution

100．The Laser

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