《英语阅读初步》

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Part 11

1 The Study of English1

2 Women Farmers Turn Artists3

3 Serious Pollution in U．S．5

4 The Use of Home Computers6

5 Talkin g About Past Possibilities9

6 Salt11

7 Teachers in the Sky13

8 Volcanoes16

9 Boy in a Basket18

10 To Look Is Not to See21

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11 The First Postage Stamp in the World24

12 The Soup Stone27

13 The Lady or the Tiger？（1）30

14 The Lady or the Tiger？（2）33

15 The Story of Little Gauss36

16 The King of the Jungle（1）39

17 The King of the Jungle（2）42

18 The Best Age to Be45

19 No Friends at Dinner48

20 The Prince and the Judge（1）52

21 The Prince and the Judge（2）54

22 Time Here and There57

23 Why Dogs Bare Their Teeth？60

24 The Santa Within Me（1）64

25 The Santa Within Me（2）67

26 The First Morning（1）70

27 The First Morning（2）73

28 The Moving Coffins of Barbados76

29 What's the Nobel Prize？79

30 The Clever Servant82

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31 My Aunt86

32 Travelling in Space88

33 A Cupboard or90

34 A Name to Remember92

35 Work“Au Pair”94

36 SOS Village Gives Children a Mother97

37 Thomas Alva Edison99

38 The Doctor's Story102

39 Self-Protection105

40 The Long Way Home108

41 Schools Should Use Museums113

42 Smoke Gets in Your Lungs116

43 Seeking Gold Aboard Titanic's Sister118

44 Napoleon's Tunnel Dream to Be a Reality121

45 Diamonds Older Than the Sun124

Part 4128

46 Dialogues128

47 The soil129

48 The Man Who Escaped（1）131

49 The Man Who Escaped（2）134

50 The Man Who Escaped（3）136

51 The Man Who Escaped（4）140

52 What We Eat and Drink143

53 How to Win Friends and Sell Records145

54 Man-Made Earth Satellites149

55 The Lucky Accident151

Key to the Exercises155

Vocabulary161