本书根据《普通高中英语课程标准》六级的要求，结合山东省高中学生英语学习的特点，精选英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚等英语国家的语文素材，辅以其他经典阅读材料和经过改编的时新英语素材，并在选文后搭配精心编写、设计的练习题目，作为高中生课外英语读物和辅助英语泛读教材，帮助学生提高英语综合应用能力。选材涉及人文故事、自然科学等类别。
高洪德，山东省教学研究室副主任，英语教研员，特级教师。硕士学位，研究方向是中小学英语课程与教学、西方历史文化。张涛，山东省教学研究室英语教研员。
Lesson 1 What Is the Best Day of the Year
Lesson 2 The May Basket
Lesson 3 The Prince and the Judge
Lesson 4 The Gate without a Latch
Lesson 5 True Courage
Lesson 6 To Spank or Not to Spank
Lesson 7 Write or Wrong： the Death of Handwriting
Lesson 8 Gwendolyn Brooks
Lesson 9 The Heroic Daughter
Lesson 10 Cheerfulness
Lesson 11 Stories of the Elephant
Lesson 12 5 Ways to Stop Giving Negative People Too Much Power in Your Life
Lesson 13 The West India Islands
Lesson 14 Why Tablets Are Invading the Classroom
Lesson 15 Take a Moment to Really See
Lesson 16 A Note to Mothers of Only Children—from an Only Child
Lesson 17 Dreams Change the World
Lesson 18 The Best Advice I Ever Had
Lesson 19 We "Discovered" Our Town
Lesson 20 Annie's Dream
Lesson 21 More than One Way to the Square
Lesson 22 Perseverance
Lesson 23 Martial Arts
Lesson 24 The Grimm Brothers
Lesson 25 Harry's Riches
Lesson 26 Susie's Composition
Lesson 27 Who Speaks for the Animals?
Lesson 28 The Ice Cream Girl
Lesson 29 Wish You Weren't Here
Lesson 30 School Colors
Lesson 31 A Dog of Flanders(Ⅰ)
Lesson 32 A Dog of Flanders(Ⅱ)
Lesson 33 The Ugly Duckling
Lesson 34 The Judge and the Beetle
Lesson 35 Thin Ice
Lesson 36 Differences Between British and American Cultures
Lesson 37 The Man with the Cane
Lesson 38 The Gentleman in White
Lesson 39 The Heroic Serf
Lesson 40 Why the Sea Is Salt
Lesson 41 The Beaver
Lesson 42 A Natural Phenomenon—Total Eclipse of the Sun
Lesson 43 The Honest Woodman
Lesson 44 Coffee
Lesson 45 Fidelity
Lesson 46 The Code Talkers
Lesson 47 Try Again
Lesson 48 Columbus
Lesson 49 How the Oak Tree Became King
Lesson 50 The Daisy and the Lark
KEY
Guidance：
A year consists of 365 days. Which one is your favourite? Maybe the passage can give you an answer. 一年三百六十五天，哪一天是你的最爱？或许在这篇文章里你会找到答案。
It was Saturday and tea was just over. Aunt Miriam would often delight the family with a story or song for the half hour of gloaming. So they waited for her. But this Saturday was to be a little different from all the others.
She looked at the children with that smile of hers which made them all love her, and then slowly asked, "What is the best day in the year?"
"What is the best day in the year?" echoed Charlie. "Well, I have never thought of that before!"
"I want you all to think well, and make a choice," Aunt Miriam continued. "I have chosen that which I think is the best, and written it down in this sealed letter. When you have all made a choice, I will open it and give a prize of ￡1 to anyone who has chosen rightly."
For a moment they were all dumb ( 不说话的) with delight, their minds busily thinking both of her novel question and of the handsome prize.
"Supposing Lily has the first pick!" said Aunt. "She is the youngest, and then the others can choose afterwards according to age."
Lily thought a little while. Suddenly she clapped her hands, and the answer came, quick and decisive, from her merry tongue. "It's my birthday! Because I get so many presents and—and it's such a happy day!"
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