CONTENTS 1
Unit One 1
1．How to Be a Patient Person 1
2．Snapshot of a Dog 6
3．Is Speed Reading Overrated? 11
Unit Two 17
4．I Gave My Word to Become Educated 17
5．Women and the Vote 23
6．Hollywood 29
Unit Three 33
7．How to Guess Your Age 33
8．Franklin D．Roosevelt and the New Deal（1） 38
9．Franklin D．Roosevelt and the New Deal（2） 45
Unit Four 51
10．The Pot Trade 51
11．Crime-Busting Computers 57
12．"I Wants to Go to the Prose" 64
Unit Five 70
13．I'll Remember It in a Minute 70
14．The Egalitarian Error 76
15．A Family Who Nurtured a Superstar 81
Unit Six 88
16．Grant and Lee 88
17．On Friendship 95
18．If You Had to Kill Your Own Hog 101
Unit Seven 106
19．I Went to Oxford 106
20．Hiking the Appalachian Trail（1） 113
21．Hiking the Appalachian Trail（2） 119
Unit Eight 125
22．The Future ofInternational Communications 125
23．Heritage of Freedom（1） 132
24．Heritage of Freedom（2） 140
Unit Nine 147
25．Solve That Problem With Humor 147
26．The Money 154
27．This Modern World 163
Unit Ten 169
28．The Legacy ofD-Day 169
29．Travels With Charley 177
30．Notes ofa Native Son 185
Glossary 193
Key to Comprehension Exercises 217