Unit One Emotion 1
Section A Text One The Woman in the Kitchen 1
Text Two A Memoir of Father and Son 13
Section B Text One On Affection 21
Text Two On the Nature of Love 32
Unit Two Literature 41
Section A Text One The Tell-Tale Heart 41
Text Two Colonel Cathcart 51
Section B Text One Hills Like White Elephants 59
Text Two A Tree,A Rock,A Cloud 69
Unit There Biography 80
Section A Text One Honor Under Cruel Circumstances 80
Text Two Bill Gates Goes Back to School 92
Section B Text One Martin Luther King 101
Text Two Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 113
Unit Four Public Speaking 124
Section A Text One Radio Broadcast on the German Invasion of Russia 124
Text Two 40th Anniversary of D-Day Address 136
Section B Text One Harvard Commencement Address 145
Text Two Address to the 2005 World Summit United Nations Headquarters 156
Unit Five Education 166
Section A Text One Education as a Necessity of Life 166
Text Two The Use of Leisure 177
Section B Text One Is Rock Music Ruining Education? 185
Text Two Literary Study among the Ruins 196
Unit Six Man and Nature 206
Section A Text One The Obligation to Endure 206
Text Two The Good Earth 216
Section B Text One The Story of an Eyewitness:The San Francisco Earthquake 226
Text Two Dam Brea 236
Unit Seven Science and Technology 246
Section A Text One The Tale of Albert Einstein's"Greatest Blunder” 246
Text Two Cosmology and 21st-Century Culture 259
Section B Text One A Century of Science 269
Text Two Is Science Evil? 280