Unit One Romance and Reality 1
Reading 1 To Make a Beautiful Dumb Girl Smart(Part Ⅰ) 2
Reading 2 To Make a Beautiful Dumb Girl Smart(Part Ⅱ) 6
Reading 3 A Painful Decision 14
Unit Two Men and Women 20
Reading 1 Why Men and Women Can t Communicate 21
Reading 2 Women and Science 28
Reading 3 Women Have What It Takes 34
Unit Three Creativity and Intelligence 39
Reading 1 Of Course You re Creative! 40
Reading 2 Intelligence:A Changed View 47
Reading 3 The Artist and the Engineer 54
Unit Four Listening:A Fine Art 59
Reading 1 Are You Really Listening? 60
Reading 2 The Art of Listening 67
Reading 3 What Your Body Language Says About You 72
Unit Five Humor and Satire 78
Reading 1 Exile on Main Street 79
Reading 2 The Late Mr.Adams 85
Reading 3 This Year,It s Going to Be Different 92
Unit Six Problems in Education 98
Reading 1 Superkids and Super Problems 99
Reading 2 Problems in American Education—Bureaucracy and Student Passivity 106
Reading 3 Poor Dad,Rich Dad 114
Unit Seven Trust and Expectations 121
Reading 1 A Question of Trust 122
Reading 2 Great Expectations 129
Reading 3 Go Best,Young Man 138
Unit Eight Memory and Brain 144
Reading 1 A Memory for All Seasonings 145
Reading 2 The Magic of Memory 151
Reading 3 Improving Memory 159
Unit Nine High Tech and Low Tech 164
Reading 1 The New Economics of High Tech 165
Reading 2 Will Low Tech Replace High Tech? 172
Reading 3 Life in the Fast Lane 179
Unit Ten Law and Order 185
Reading 1 Portraits of a Cop 186
Reading 2 After 62000 Letters,Innocent Man Goes Free 194
Reading 3 My Lawsuit That Wasn t 201
Keys to Exercises 206