UNIT ONE 1
Reading Text:Buying on the Installment Plan 19
Conversation:A.Your Profession 19
B.The New Job 19
Supplementary Reading:Installment Buying in the U.S.Grammar：现在完成进行时过去完成进行时UNIT TWO 19
Reading Text:The Standard of Living 35
Conversation:A.Getting Fired 35
B.The Written Report 35
Supplementary Reading:Raising the Standard of LivingGrammar：时态的呼应UNIT THREE 35
Reading Text:Computers:Machines That Can ThinkConversation:A.RetirementB.OvertimeSupplementary Reading:The Use of ComputersGrammar：动词不定式UNIT FOUR 55
Reading Text:The Age of Fast Foods 78
Conversation:A.The Store's Service 78
B.Accounting 78
Supplementary Reading:The Growing Trend Toward Convenience FoodGrammar：分词UNIT FIVE 78
Reading Text:The Poverty Problem 94
Conversation:A.Soap Sales 94
B.Changing Money 94
Supplementary Reading:What Can Be Done about Poverty?Grammar：动名词UNIT SIX 94
Reading Text:Inflation Tears the Society ApartConversation:A.Plane ReservationB.To Brazil on BusinessSupplementary Reading:How Do People Battle In-flationGrammar：复合宾语复合主语UNIT SEVEN 112
Reading Text:Population and World Re-sourcesConversation:Asking for a QuotationSupplementary Reading:The World's PopulationGrammar：名词从句UNIT EIGHT 128
Reading Text:The Credit Card Economy 149
Conversation:Some Aspects of Selling and MarketingSupplementary Reading:Using Credit CardsGrammar：定语从句UNIT NINE 149
Reading Text:Tragedy of the Unemployed in the U.S.Conversation:InsuranceSupplementary Reading:The Cost of Unemployment and DepressionGrammar：状语从句UNIT TEN 167
Reading Text:Energy and Energy Resources 191
Conversation:Advertising a New Product 191
Supplementary Reading:The Sun:A New Source of EnergyGrammar：虚拟条件句UNIT ELEVEN 191
Reading Text:Pollution:Must It Come with Progress?Conversation:The Accounts DepartmentSupplementary Reading:World's Nonsmokers Take up Fight for Cleaner AirGrammar：句子成分的省略和代替句子的倒装UNIT TWELVE 215
Reading Text:World Survey of Agriculture 241
Conversation:Meaning and Processes of ManagementSupplementary Reading:Agriculture in AsiaGrammar:It的用法词汇表 241