Unit One Presidents at War 1
Text A To Make War, Presidents Lie 1
Text B Presidents at War 5
Unit Two Sleeping and Dreaming 19
Text A Why We Sleep? 19
Text B What Your Dreams Really Mean? 22
Unit Three Money 34
Text A Get Your Money's Worth 34
Text B Saving Money 36
Unit Four Traveling and Mountaineering 49
Text A A Glimpse of Beijing 49
Text B Mountain Climbing 53
Unit Five Journalism 66
Text A A Historical Survey of Journalism 66
Text B BBC World Service 69
Unit Six Culture Shock 81
Text A What is Culture Shock 81
Text B Resolving Conflict in a Multicultural Environment 86
Unit Seven Superstition 98
Text A What Is Superstition? 98
Text B After All We Know But Little 103
Unit Eight Hollywood 114
Text A The Hollywood Sign 114
Text B Hollywood Censored:The Production Code 117
Unit Nine Psychology 130
Text A Cross-Cultural Psychology in the 21 st Century 130
Text B Consumer Psychology 134
Unit Ten Mysteries 148
Text A Black Holes 148
Text B Crop Circle Phenomenon 152
Unit Eleven Creativity 167
Text A Alex F.Osborne : Father of the Brainstorm 167
Text B Who Says You Can't Wear Red Shoes? 170
Unit Twelve Nature and Nurture 182
Text A What Makes Us Do It? 182
Text B How Are Your Genes? 186
Unit Thirteen Health 199
Text A Learning from China 199
Text B Red Meat Is Strongly Linked To Cancer 203
Unit Fourteen Challenge 215
Text A Blind to Failure 215
Text B On Top of the World 219
Unit Fifteen My Life 232
Text A Chapter Seventeen 232
Text B Chapter Twenty-Eight 236
Unit Sixteen Science and Fiction 252
Text A Science and Fiction 252
Text B The “Birth” of a Monster 255