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CHAPTER one 第一章 New Challenges 新的挑战 1

SELECTION ONE "Customs Vary with Culture,"&by Alison Raymond Lanier 2

SELECTION TWO "My Country"(excerpts),&by Pie rre Berton 10

SELECTION THREE "In Praise of New York City,"&by Andy Roohey 17

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Panhandling 20

CHAPTER two 第二章 Looking at Learning 学习观 21

SELECTION ONE "How to Read Faster,"&by Bill Cosby 22

SELECTION TWO "Mark Twain ,"from Encyclopaedia Britannica 28

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Censorship 31

SELECTION THREE "How to Take Tests:Scoring What You're Worth,"&by Eric Jensen 32

CHAPTER three 第三章 Relationships 家庭关系 43

SELECTION ONE "The Changing American Family,"&by M.Prijic 44

SELECTION TWO "70 Brides for 7 Foreigners,"&by S.Kuzina 51

SELECTION THREE "The Making of a Father,"&by Ellen Goodman 57

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Adoption 64

CHAPTER four 第四章 Health 健康 65

SELECTION ONE "Eat Like a Peasant, Feel Like a King,"&by Andrew Revkin 66

SELECTION TWO "Thou Shalt Not Smoke,"&by Barbara Rudolph 76

SELECTION THREE "The Cruel Winds,"&by Julius Fast 81

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Choosing Medical Care 90

CHAPTER five 第五章 High Tech,Low Tech 高科技，低科技 91

SELECTION ONE "First-Time Tourists Need a Pocket Guide to Downtown internet,"&by Peter H.Lewis 92

SELECTION TWO "Laser:Supertool of Our Time,"&by Jeff Hecht and Dick Teresi 98

WHAT DO YOU THINK?Taking the Chunnel 106

SELECTION THREE "Privacy Loses to Computer,"&by Larry Tye 107

CHAPTER six 第六章 Money Matters 金融 115

SELECTION ONE "Executive Takes Chance on Pizza,Transforms Spain,"&by Stephen Wade 116

SELECTION TWO "Who Owns What in America?",&by Andy Rooney 122

SELECTION THREE "The Luncheon,"&by W.Somerset Maugham 125

WHAT DO YOU THINK ? Using Credit Cards 132

CHAPTER Seven 第七章 Leisure Time 休闲时光 133

SELECTION ONE "Living with Television,"&by David Finkel 134

SELECTION TWO "For Casinos,'Six-Hou r Visitors'Make a Full House,"&by Walter Brasch 141

SELECTION THREE "Soccer and American Football,"from Rules of the Game 146

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Exercising 150

CHAPTER eight 第八章 Creativity 创造力 151

SELECTION ONE "New York Botanist Wins Nobel Medical Prize,"from American Medical News 152

SELECTION TWO "Guggenheim Museum U.S.A.,"&by Flavio Conti 156

SELECTION THREE "We Can't Just Sit Back and Hope,"&by Dotson Rader 164

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Creativity in Men and Women 169

CHAPTER nine 第九章 Human Behavior 人类行为 171

SELECTION ONE "Ethnocentrism,"&by John Friedl 172

SELECTION TWO "A Clean,Well-Lighted Place,"&by Ernest Hemingway 179

SELECTION THREE "The Spell of the Yukon,"&by Robert Service 186

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Blaming Others 192

CHAPTER ten 第十章 Crime and Punishment 犯罪与惩罚 193

SELECTION ONE "Soapy Smith,"&by Stan B.Cohen 194

SELECTION TWO "Anecdotes of Minister Maimaiti:A Uygur Man's Black Humor,"&by Wang Meng,Translated by Qingyun Wu 199

SELECTION THREE "Born Bad?",&by Glenn Ga relik 215

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Using the Death Penalty 224

CHAPTER eleven 第十一章 The Physical World 自然界 225

SELECTION ONE "Hothouse Earth,"&by Kevin McKean 226

SELECTION TWO "Mig ration and Homing,"from Life on Earth 233

SELECTION THREE "Recycling:Getting the Most Out of Our Garbage,"&by Peter Tonge 239

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Littering 244

CHAPTER tweleve 第十二章 Together on a Small Planet 共同拥有的小星球 245

SELECTION ONE "Books,"by Jorge Luis Borges 246

SELECTION TWO "Three Days to See,"by Helen Keller 247

SELECTION THREE "Good Friends...Dogs,Sons and Others,"by Willie Morris 251

SELECTION FOUR 255

"People,"by Yevgeny Yevtushenko 255

"Poem,"by Ono no Komachi 256

"Poem,"by Paavo Haavikko 256

"Caged Bird,"by Maya Angelou 257

"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"(Selections) 258

SELECTION FIVE Inaugural Address of John F.Kennedy 260

SELECTION SIX "Susana and the Shepherd,"&by Margaret Craven 263

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Reading 279