时文选读 1
Superbug Hits Computers at Quietest Time 1
Air Controllers Removed from Job for Drug Use 4
To Be or Not to Be a Vegetarian? 7
Bargains 11
Cars:On a Road to Nowhere 15
The 21st Century Rhetoric 19
Does Anyone Still Care about Value? 23
Domestic Problems in the U.S 27
Two Ways of Life 30
A Glimpse of Hollywood 33
Down with Offices! 36
How Much do You Really Know about AIDS? 40
Communicating in the New Age 44
Unique Silicon Valley 49
Why is Bill Gates so Keen on China? 53
Some Broadcast TV Stations Don't Want Their Business 58
How the Net Is Changing Competition 62
Credit Card Fraud Increasing 66
Global Addiction 71
Prize Fight 76
Decline and Fall of the American Empire 80
Millennium Bug Fears Seen Rising in 1999 84
Birth of a Buzzword 88
Low Budget Winners 92
Love Affairs Bloom on the Internet 97
The Tyranny of the Diploma 102
The Long Goodbye 107
Pepsi Gets Back in the Game 113
The Impact of the Euro 121
议论文选 127
Beauty 127
Of Travel 132
Of Study 136
Narcissus;or Self-love 139
Expressing One's Individuality 141
On Education 146
Of Avarice 150
The Importance of Elm Trees to the Art of Thinking 153
Five Evidences of an Education 157
Ant and Men 161
Friendship 166
Science and Ethics 169
Let's Go to the Movies 172
I'd Rather Be a Black than Female 176
Why I Want a Wife 180
Four Choices for Young People 184
How to Write an"F"Paper:Fresh Advice for Students 189
Art of the Memorandum 193
Should the Press Be Human? 198
The English and the Americans 201
The Influence of Literature 205
The Value of Time 208
Sorrows of the Millionaire 211
Book Buying 214
Happiness 220
Attitudes to Language 224
On Heroes and Fools in Science 228
Books 234
The Artist and the World 240
散文精萃 247
First Snow 247
Night among the Pines 251
Oxford 253
Golden Fruit 256
Delicacy of Taste and Delicacy of Passion 258
The Night Storm 261
A Handful of Clay 264
The Windmill 268
A Watering Place 271
The Mischievous Wind 273
The Balance of Nature 276
Seeing the Wind 279
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life 282
If I Were a Boy Again 285
October Lake 288
July 291
The Break-up of a Great Drought 295
Fog 298
My Old Penholder 302
The Rose 305
Sunday before the War 309