CONTENTS 1
Unit One 1
1．The Open Window 1
2．You Should Have Seen the Mess 6
3．Politics:Never Satisfactory,Always Necessary 14
Unit Two 18
4．Drowning 18
5．Less Time for House Chores? 23
6．Mark Twain's Speechmaking Strategy 30
Unit Three 35
7．My Way to Success 35
8．Why Smart People Fail 42
9．I Never Had It Made 48
Unit Four 54
10．The Rainmakers 54
11．Michael Jackson 61
12．The City 66
Unit Five 72
13．My Cousin,the Gambler 72
14．Waiting-Room 78
15．Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn't Come till 4:30 86
Unit Six 93
16．Where Have the Children Gone? 93
17．The Pace of Life 99
18．Triplets...And They Didn't Know It! 105
Unit Seven 112
19．Mr．Know-All 112
20．They Created the Jet Age 121
21．The Hungry World 127
Unit Eight 134
22．Carnegie,anAmerican Industrialist 134
23．"No Horse,No Wife,No Mustache" 143
24．Der Fohrer Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf 152
Unit Nine 157
25．The Importance of Being Interested 157
26．Improving Quality of Life 165
27．The Nobel Prizes 173
Unit Ten 179
28．University Days 179
29．Space—30 Years into the Future 187
30．"A Troublesome Boy" 195
Glossary 203
Key to Comprehension Questions 230