BOOK ONE 1
Lesson 1 Our Home Planet 1
Lesson 2 Handling Office Calls 2
Lesson 3 An Ideal Holiday 4
Lesson 4 A Railway Incident 6
Lesson 5 Concentration 8
Lesson 6 When the Computer Is Down 10
Lesson 7 Happy New Millennium 11
Lesson 8 What Is a Consumer 14
Lesson 9 Best Teacher I Ever Had 16
Lesson 10 Sound and Sense 19
Lesson 11 Pioneer in Space 23
Lesson 12 The Will 25
Lesson 13 My Pony,My Prejudice 27
Lesson 14 Did You Like Her? 29
Lesson 15 Never On Wednesday 32
BOOK TWO 36
Lesson 1 Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan 36
Lesson 2 The Soft Sell 38
Lesson 3 Difference in Culture 41
Lesson 4 The Big Apple 44
Lesson 5 Luck of the Lottery(Ⅰ) 47
Lesson 6 Luck of the Lottery(Ⅱ) 50
Lesson 7 The Contemporary American Marriage 53
Lesson 8 On Buying Books 56
Lesson 9 The Tramp and the Philosopher 59
Lesson 10 Living at Home 63
Lesson 11 Women and Fashions in Clothing 65
Lesson 12 Our Dinner Table University 68
Lesson 13 How the Computer Works Its Way into Our Homes 72
Lesson 14 Just a Taxi Ride 75
BOOK THREE 79
Lesson 1 On Discipline 79
Lesson 2 Night Watch 82
Lesson 3 Budget Blue 85
Lesson 4 America on Wheels 88
Lesson 5 Only a Madman Would Choose to Live in a Large City 91
Lesson 6 Mistaken Ideas about College 94
Lesson 7 The Day Mother Cried 97
Lesson 8 The Story of Jazz 101
Lesson 9 The Comet Line(Ⅰ) 104
Lesson 10 The Comet Line(Ⅱ) 107
Lesson 11 How People Communicate? 110
Lesson 12 Christmas Spirit 114
Lesson 13 Profits of Praise 116
Lesson 14 Heart of a Champion 119
BOOK FOUR 122
Lesson 1 Why I Came to College 122
Lesson 2 If I Were 21 124
Lesson 3 Best Friends 126
Lesson 4 The Land of the Lock 128
Lesson 5 The Threat of Over-Population 130
Lesson 6 Salvation 133
Lesson 7 My Son,the Motorhead 135
Lesson 8 Who Are the Real Book Owners? 137
Lesson 9 Lady Hermits Who Are Down But Not Out 139
Lesson 10 TV Addiction 141
Lesson 11 My Romance with Cars 143
Lesson 12 The Night We Won the Buick 146
Lesson 13 An Embarrassing Incident 148
Lesson 14 The Dear Departed 150
BOOK FIVE 153
Lesson 1 Life Begins at 50 153
Lesson 2 A Fable for Tomorrow 154
Lesson 3 Decisiveness Is the Key 155
Lesson 4 Diogenes 157
Lesson 5 Say Yes 158
Lesson 6 Symptoms 160
Lesson 7 I'd Rather Be Black Than Female 161
Lesson 8 We'll Never Conquer Space 163
Lesson 9 Controlling the Electronic Home 164
Lesson 10 If It Comes Back 166
Lesson 11 Knowledge Is Power 167
Lesson 12 I Have a Dream 168
BOOK SIX 171
Lesson 1 Christmas Day in the Morning 171
Lesson 2 How To Avoid Foolish Opinions 172
Lesson 3 Year of the Blue-Collar Guy 174
Lesson 4 Transglobe:Three Years with Fear of Failure 176
Lesson 5 Three Days To See 177
Lesson 6 To Err Is Human 178
Lesson 7 Four Kinds of Reading 180
Lesson 8 Mr Imagination 182
Lesson 9 The Method of Scientific Investigation 183
Lesson 10 The Subway Is a Madhouse 185
Lesson 11 The Use of Force 186
Lesson 12 With the Marines in the Desert 188