PASSAGE 1 Hunting for Viruses on the Amazon

PASSAGE 2 Owls

PASSAGE 3 Canada

PASSAGE 4 Climate and Vegetation

PASSAGE 5 Mass Production

PASSAGE 6 Like Father,Like Son?

PASSAGE 7 Zoos in the Past and Now

PASSAGE 8 The Balance of Nature

PASSAGE 9 A Famous Speech

PASSAGE 10 The Marketplace on the Internet

PASSAGE 11 Tips on Doing Business with the Arabs

PASSAGE 12 The British Police and the American Police

PASSAGE 13 The San Francisco Earthquake

PASSAGE 14 Television

PASSAGE 15 New England

PASSAGE 16 How Is Leather Made?

PASSAGE 17 The Pennsylvania Dutch

PASSAGE 18 Living a Long Life

PASSAGE 19 Texas

PASSAGE 20 The Female Mosquito

PASSAGE 21 A Marriage of Convenience

PASSAGE 22 Rabies

PASSAGE 23 A Library Mishap

PASSAGE 24 Dreams—What Do They Mean?

PASSAGE 25 Knowing Everybody in Bardfield by Sight

PASSAGE 26 A Meeting about a Flower Show

PASSAGE 27 The Earth's Spreading Deserts

PASSAGE 28 Alfred Nobel—a Man of Contrast

PASSAGE 29 How to Cope with Insomnia?

PASSAGE 30 Darwin's Theory

PASSAGE 31 Have You Ever Seen a Flying Saucer?

PASSAGE 32 Down the Mine

PASSAGE 33 Shooting an Elephant

PASSAGE 34 Chinese-Americans:Success of an Ethnic Group

PASSAGE 35 Cigarettes

PASSAGE 36 Faithful Hachiko

PASSAGE 37 The Three Brothers

PASSAGE 38 The Two Generals

PASSAGE 39 The Marvels of Colour

PASSAGE 40 Pollution:a Threat to Our Environment