Chapter Ⅰ 1
Unit 1 Half a Day 3
Unit 2 Going Home 5
Unit 3 Message of the Land 9
Unit 4 The Boy and the Bank Officer 11
Unit 5 Angels on a Pin 15
Unit 6 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street 19
Unit 7 Mandela's Garden 22
Unit 8 My Personal Manager 25
Unit 9 Against all Odds 28
Unit 10 The Green Banana 30
Unit 11 The Midnight Visitor 33
Unit 12 The Kindness of Strangers 35
Unit 13 Christmas Day in the Morning 39
Unit 14 After Twenty Years 44
Unit 15 Touched by the Moon 46
Chapter Ⅱ 51
Unit 1 Another School Year—What For? 53
Unit 2 Maheegun My Brother 55
Unit 3 More Crime and Less Punishment 59
Unit 4 The Nightingale and the Rose 63
Unit 5 Say Yes 65
Unit 6 The Man in the Water 67
Unit 7 The Great Invention 69
Unit 8 Psychologically Speaking 71
Unit 9 Quick Fix Society 75
Unit 10 The Richer,the Poorer 79
Unit 11 You Have to Get Me Out of Here 81
Unit 12 Confessions of a Miseducated Man 83
Unit 13 Blueprint for Success 85
Unit 14 Space Shuttle Challenger 90
Unit 15 The Riddle of Time 95
Chapter Ⅲ 101
Unit 1 Your College Years 103
Unit 2 Discovery of A Father 107
Unit 3 Michael Dell's Two-Billion-Dollar Dream 109
Unit 4 Wisdom of Bear Wood 112
Unit 5 6Twelve Angry Men 114
Unit 7 The Rivals 119
Unit 8 We're Only Man 122
Unit 9 The Dill Pickle 129
Unit 10 Diogenes and Alexander 132
Unit 11 Silent Spring 134
Unit 12 The Needs That Drive Us All 137
Unit 13 In My Day 139
Unit 14 Mercy at Appomattox 146
Unit 15 The President as Corporate 157
Chapter Ⅳ 165
Unit 1 Thinking as A Hobby 167
Unit 2 Waiting for the Police 172
Unit 3 Why Historians Disagree 174
Unit 4 A Drink in the Passage 177
Unit 5 Man of the Moment 185
Unit 6 Groundless Beliefs 187
Unit 7 Spring Sowing 200
Unit 8 Globalization's Dual Power 204
Unit 9 The Most Dangerous Game 218
Unit 10 The Telephone 222
Unit 11 The Pen of My Aunt 228
Unit 12 Lions and Tigers and Bears 230
Unit 13 Soldier's Heart 237
Unit 14 How Do We Deal with the Drug Problem? 242
Unit 15 The Damned Human Race 249
Chapter Ⅴ 251
Unit 1 Where Do We Go from Here? 253
Unit 2 Two Kinds 268
Unit 3 Goods Move.People Move.Ideas Move.And Cultures Change 275
Unit 4 Professions for Women 279
Unit 5 Love Is a Fallacy 280
Unit 6 Life Beyond Earth 285
Unit 7 Invisible Man 289
Unit 8 The Merely Very Good 293
Unit 9 The Way to Rainy Mountain 297
Unit 10 Before and After September 11 306
Unit 11 An Iowa Christmas 314
Unit 12 How News Becomes Opinion and Opinion Off-limits 317
Chapter Ⅵ 325
Unit 1 How to Get the Poor off our conscience 327
Unit 2 The Woods Were Tossing with Jewels 333
Unit 3 At War with the Planet 342
Unit 4 Nettles 351
Unit 5 The One Against the Many 353
Unit 6 Death of a Pig 360
Unit 7 Inaugural Address 363
Unit 8 A Rose for Emily 369
Unit 9 The Bluest Eye 375
Unit 10 Notes on the English Character 387
Unit 11 Beauty 397
Unit 12 The Hot Gates 403
Reference 406