Chapter Ⅰ 1
Unit 1 Half a Day 3
Unit 2 Going Home 18
Unit 3 Message of the Land 22
Unit 4 The Boy and the Bank Officer 26
Unit 5 Angels on a Pin 27
Unit 6 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street 29
Unit 7 Mandela's Garden 34
Unit 8 My Personal Manager 37
Unit 9 Against All Odds 39
Unit 10 The Green Banana 45
Unit 11 The Midnight Visitor 47
Unit 12 The Kindness of Strangers 51
Unit 13 Christmas Day in the Morning 54
Unit 14 After Twenty Years 60
Unit 15 Touched by the Moon 64
Chapter Ⅱ 65
Unit 1 Another School Year—What For? 67
Unit 2 Maheegun My Brother 89
Unit 3 More Crime and Less Punishment 91
Unit 4 The Nightingale and the Rose 94
Unit 5 Say Yes 98
Unit 6 The Man in the Water 101
Unit 7 The Great Invention 105
Unit 8 Psychologically Speaking 108
Unit 9 Quick Fix Society 111
Unit 10 The Richer,the Poorer 115
Unit 11 You Have to Get Me out of Here 116
Unit 12 Confessions of a Miseducated Man 118
Unit 13 Blueprint for Success 120
Unit 14 Space Shuttle Challenger 122
Unit 15 The Riddle of Time 124
Chapter Ⅲ 127
Unit 1 Your College Years 129
Unit 2 Discovery of a Father 135
Unit 3 Michael Dell's Two-Billion-Dollar Dream 145
Unit 4 Wisdom of Bear Wood 151
Unit 5-6 Twelve Angry Men 155
Unit 7 The Rivals 158
Unit 8 We're Only Man 160
Unit 9 The Dill Pickle 168
Unit 10 Diogenes and Alexander 172
Unit 11 Silent Spring 181
Unit 12 The Needs that Drive Us ALL 187
Unit 13 In My Day 191
Unit 14 Mercy at Appomattox 196
Unit 15 The President as Corporate 202
Chapter Ⅳ 207
Unit 1 Thinking as a Hobby 209
Unit 2 Waiting for the Police 217
Unit 3 Why Historians Disagree 219
Unit 4 A Drink in the Passage 223
Unit 5 Man of the Moment 227
Unit 6 Groundless Beliefs 231
Unit 7 Spring Sowing 234
Unit 8 Globalization's Dual Power 239
Unit 9 The Most Dangerous Game 242
Unit 10 The Telephone 247
Unit 11 The Pen of My Aunt 249
Unit 12 Lions and Tigers and Bears 252
Unit 13 Soldier's Heart 257
Unit 14 How Do We Deal with the Drug Problem? 262
Unit 15 The Damned Human Race 274
Chapter Ⅴ 279
Unit 1 Where Do We Go from Here? 281
Unit 2 Two Kinds 289
Unit 3 Goods Move.People Move.Ideas Move.And Cultures Change 296
Unit 4 Professions for Women 300
Unit 5 Love Is a Fallacy 311
Unit 6 Life beyond Earth 317
Unit 7 Invisible Man 329
Unit 8 The Merely Very Good 334
Unit 9 The Way to Rainy Mountain 349
Unit 10 Before and after September 11 353
Unit 11 An Iowa Christmas 362
Unit 12 How News Becomes Opinion and Opinion Off-limits 364
Chapter Ⅵ 369
Unit 1 How to Get the Poor off Our Conscience 371
Unit 2 The Wood Were Tossing with Jewels 381
Unit 3 At War with the Planet 382
Unit 4 Nettles 385
Unit 5 The One against the Many 390
Unit 6 Death of a Pig 393
Unit 7 Inaugural Address 396
Unit 8 A Rose for Emily 399
Unit 9 The Bluest Eye 403
Unit 10 Notes on the English Character 408
Unit 11 Beauty 418
Unit 12 The Hot Gates 423
Reference 425