Book 1
Unit 1 Growing Up 1
Text A Writing for Myself 1
Text B Summer Reading 13
Unit 2 Friendship 17
Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter 17
Text B Never Let a Friend Down 23
Unit 3 Understanding Science 27
Text A Public Attitudes toward Science 27
Text B How to Make Sense Out ofScience 39
Unit 4 American Dream 43
Text A Tony Trivisonno's American Dream 43
Text B Ben Carson:Man of Miracles 55
Unit 5 Romance 59
Text A A Valentine Story 59
Text B The Wal let 73
Unit 6 Animal Intelligence 77
Text A What Animals Really Think 77
Text B Do Animals Fall in Love? 95
Unit 7 Emergency 99
Text A "Kids on the Track!" 99
Text B The Night the River Came in 113
Unit 8 Copingwith an EducationalProblem 117
Text A Fable of the Lazy Teenager 117
Text B Ditch the Calculator 130
Book 2
Unit 1 Ways of Learning 135
Text A Learning,Chinese Style 135
Text B Children and Money 151
Unit 2 Values 155
Text A The Richest Man in America,Down Home 155
Text B The Restoration of Jimmy Carter 164
Unit 3 The Generation Gap 167
Text A Father Knows Better 167
Text B When Father Doesn't Know Best 175
Unit 4 The Virtual World 179
Text A A Virtual Life 179
Text B Mother's Mad about the Internuts 192
Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles 197
Text A True Height 197
Text B Fourteen Steps 206
Unit 6 Women,Half the Sky 211
Text A I'm Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge 211
Text B Beginning Anew 221
Unit 7 Learning about English 225
Text A The Glorious Messiness of English 225
Text B The Role ofEnglish in the 21 st Century 241
Unit 8 Protecting Our Environment 245
Text A Saving Nature,But Only for Man 245
Text B An Ugly New Footprint in the Sand 265