1.Absent-minded Professors

2.A Dialogue on the Telephone

3.Make a Fool

4.Newspapers

5.Learn to Drive

6.The Extraordinary Advertisers

7.Clever or Stupid

8.Marco Polo

9.The Man From the Government

10.The Goose Laying Golden Eggs

11.The Value of Books

12.A Disappointing Answer

13.The Man Who Never Put a Foot Wrong

14.Educating TV Children

15.Flying Saucers

16.The Brother and the Sister

17.Bell’s Voice

18.Look What They Are Doing to You！

19.The City Blacksmith

20.A Book Causing a Civil War

21.Bike for a Better City

22.No Title

23.Such a Millionaire

24.The Perfect Pearl

25.The Underground Railroad

26.Big Ben

27.Geography of Australia

28.Narcissuss

29.Is Your Temperature Rising

30.Androcles and the Lion

31.“Eureka！”

32.Prefer to Die

33.The World’s Population

34.Sir Philip Sidney

35.The World-Famous Hyde Park

36.The Nobel Prize

37.Cover the Shadow With Sand

38.Who Is Uncle Sam？

39.The Best Age to Be

40.A Terrible Dream

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练习答案

Ⅰ.Key to the Exercises

Ⅱ.Key to the Test Papers