Contents 1
Unit 1 Narration 1
Text:Bittersweet Farewell of a Grown-up Child 3
Additional Reading 1:Dime Store Soles 14
2:Tickets to Nowhere 22
Unit 2 Description 32
Text:The Kitchen 34
Additional Reading 1:The Rainbow City 50
2:Sources of Stress 63
Unit 3 Illustration 75
Text:Thank You 77
Additional Reading 1:The Paper Wedding Gown 90
2:Effects of Beauty Found to Run Sur-prisingly Deep 100
Unit 4 Definition 111
Text:Customs 113
Additional Reading 1:Natural—A Word of Many Meanings 128
2:On Friendship 136
Unit 5 Process Analysis 149
Text:How"Little House"Gets to Your House 151
Additional Reading 1:How to Tour Europe 160
2:Angels on a Pin 172
Unit 6 Comparision and Contrast 180
Text:Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrast 183
Additional Reading 1:Japanese and American Workers:Two Casts of Mind 198
2:Up from Misery 206
Unit 7 Cause and Effect 216
Text:An Ugly New Footprint in the Sand 219
Additional Reading 1:Reflections on My Brother's Murder 229
2:How I Served My Apprenticeship 237
Unit 8 Argumentation 246
Text:The Egalitarian Error 249
Additional Reading 1:We should Cherish Our Children's Free-dom to Think 259
2:Future Shock 266
Further Readings 282
Post-modernity and Difference 282
Dreams 286
Riders on the Earth Together,Let Us Build A Structure of Peace 289
Adding It Up 293
Key for Reference 299
Vocabulary for Advanced Level 320