Unit One 1
Text A How I Got Smart 1
Text B Coming of Age 11
Text C Romance and Reality 15
Key to the Exercises 18
Test One 20
Unit Two 27
Text A The Titanic Puzzle 27
Text B Unjust Desserts 37
Text C Will You Go Out with Me? 41
Key to the Exercises 44
Test Two 46
Unit Three 53
Text A The Sense of Wonder 53
Text B The Innocent Eye 63
Text C If I Were 21 68
Key to the Exercises 70
Test Three 72
Unit Four 78
Text A College Pressures 78
Text B College Lectures:Is Anybody Listening? 86
Text C What Is College for? 90
Key to the Exercises 93
Test Four 95
Unit Five 101
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.:America Seen with European Eyes 101
Text B American Values and Assumptions 112
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist's Observation of Americans 119
Key to the Exercises 121
Test Five 123
Unit Six 129
Text A Every 23 Minutes 129
Text B Needed:A License to Drink 137
Text C My Daughter Smokes 144
Key to the Exercises 147
Test Six 149
Unit Seven 155
Text A So What's So Bad About Being So-So? 155
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 162
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 167
Key to the Exercises 171
Test Seven 173
Unit Eight 180
Text A Space Politics 180
Text B Message to the Unknown 186
Text C Your Future in Space 189
Key to the Exercises 192
Test Eight 195
Keys to the Tests 201
主要参考书目 206