Unit 1
Lesson 1 Andrew H．Malcolm：Dad 1
Table of Contents 1
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Lesson 2 Sherwood Anderson：Discovery of a Father 7
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Lesson 3 Steve Tesich：Focusing on Friends 14
Lesson 4 Judith Viorst：Friends，Good Friends—and Such Good Friends 20
Lesson 5 Carolyn B．Raphael：Three Unforgettable Professors 27
Lesson 6 James Thurber：University Days 32
Lesson 7 Mark Twain：Advice to Youth 40
Lesson 8 Neil Postman：My Graduation Speech 46
Lesson 9 E．M．Forster：My Wood 52
Lesson 10 Michael Korda：How to Obtain Power 59
Lesson 11 Ellen Goodman：Friendship and Competition 64
Lesson 12 George Orwell：Shooting an Elephant 69
Lesson 13 Abraham Lincoln：The Gettysburg Address 78
Lesson 14 John F．Kennedy：President Kennedy’s Inaugural Address 82
Lesson 15 Martin Luther King，Jr．：I Have a Dream 90
Lesson 16 Winston Churchill：Until Victory Is Wan 98
Lesson 17 Tuan Yifu：American Space，Chinese Place 105
Lesson 18 Edward T．Hall：The Arab World 109
Lesson 19 Kate Chopin：The Story of an Hour 120
Lesson 20 Judy Syfers：I Want a Wife 126
Lesson 21 Thomas Wolfe：Circus at Dawn 130
Lesson 22 E．B．White：The Ring of Time 137
Lesson 23 Joan Didion：On Going Home 145
Lesson 24 Ellen Goodman：Thanksgiving 151
Lesson 25 Malcolm Cowley：Vices and Pleasures：The View from 80 155
Lesson 26 Laura Cunningham：The Girls’Room 163
Lesson 27 Virginia Woolf：The Death of the Moth 169
Lesson 28 Lewis Thomas：On Natural Death 174
Further Readings： 179
Lesson 29 W．Timothy Gallwey：How to Compete Well 179
Lesson 30 Roger Cox：How to Get Ready for Studying Abroad 185
Lesson 31 E．B．White：Once More to the Lake 191
Lesson 32 Brad Edmondson：Making Yourself at Home：The Baby Boom Generation Yearns to Settle Down 198
Reference Books 207