Unit One Childhood 1
Discipline Is A Great Teacher&John Holt 1
Christmas&Floyd Dell 9
Unit Two Nature 16
Twins&Elwyn B.White 16
Snapping Turtle&Alan Devoe 20
Unit Three Personality 27
Solitude&Henry D.Thoreau 27
Advice to Youth&Mark Twain 30
Unit Four Travel 36
On Going a Journey&William Hazlitt 36
The Author's Account of Himself&Washington Irving 47
Unit Five Values 53
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech&William Faulkner 53
Tolerance&Edward M.Forster 57
Unit Six Psychology 66
Affectation&Samuel Johnson 66
The Harm That Good Men Do&Bertrand Russell 71
Unit Seven Education 87
How I Learned to Write&Benjamin Franklin 87
My First Introduction to the Classics&Winston Churchill 93
Unit Eight Art and Sport 98
Attitude&Garrison Keillor 98
The Summing Up&William.S.Maugham 105
Unit Nine Views 117
Of Studies&Francis Bacon 117
Beauty&Ralph W.Emerson 120
Unit Ten Work 129
The Worker as Creator or Machine&Erich Fromm 129
Early Success&Francis S.Fitzgerald 138
Unit Eleven Citizenship 147
The Nature of Liberty&Henry L.Mencken 147
Americans&John Steinbeck 155
Unit Twelve Science 160
The Difference Between a Brain and a Computer&Isaac Asimov 160
Footnote on the Future&James Thurber 164
Unit Thirteen Feminity 172
Professions for Women&Virginia Woolf 172
Are Women Human?&Dorothy L.Sayers 180
Unit Fourteen Local Color 186
Down and Out in Paris and London&George Orwell 186
The Subway Station&Gilbert Highet 194
Unit Fifteen Writing 197
Education by Poetry&Robert Frost 197
No Essays，Please!&Joseph W.Krutch 214