Unit One 1
Text A How I Got Smart 2
Text B Coming of Age 18
Text C A Painful Decision 25
Unit Two 30
Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat？ 31
Text B Unjust Desserts 46
Text C Will You Go Out with Me？ 53
Unit Three 57
Text A The Sense of Wonder 58
Text B The Innocent Eye 72
Text C If I Were 21 80
Unit Four 83
Text A College Pressures 84
Text B College Lectures：Is Anybody Listening？ 97
Text C What Is College for？ 105
Unit Five 109
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.：America Seen with European Eyes 110
Text B American Values and Assumptions 125
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist's Observation of Americans 133
Unit Six 137
Text A Every 23 Minutes 138
Text B Needed：A License to Drink 152
Text C Tobacco：An Evil Weed 160
Unit Seven 165
Text A So What's So Bad About Being So-So？ 166
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 180
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 187
Unit Eight 192
Text A Space Politics 193
Text B Message to the Unknown 207
Text C Your Future in Space 214
Glossary 219