CHAPTER one 第一章 New Challenges 新的挑战 1
SELECTION ONE "Customs Vary with Culture,"&by Alison Raymond Lanier 2
SELECTION TWO "My Country"(excerpts),&by Pie rre Berton 10
SELECTION THREE "In Praise of New York City,"&by Andy Roohey 17
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Panhandling 20
CHAPTER two 第二章 Looking at Learning 学习观 21
SELECTION ONE "How to Read Faster,"&by Bill Cosby 22
SELECTION TWO "Mark Twain ,"from Encyclopaedia Britannica 28
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Censorship 31
SELECTION THREE "How to Take Tests:Scoring What You're Worth,"&by Eric Jensen 32
CHAPTER three 第三章 Relationships 家庭关系 43
SELECTION ONE "The Changing American Family,"&by M.Prijic 44
SELECTION TWO "70 Brides for 7 Foreigners,"&by S.Kuzina 51
SELECTION THREE "The Making of a Father,"&by Ellen Goodman 57
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Adoption 64
CHAPTER four 第四章 Health 健康 65
SELECTION ONE "Eat Like a Peasant, Feel Like a King,"&by Andrew Revkin 66
SELECTION TWO "Thou Shalt Not Smoke,"&by Barbara Rudolph 76
SELECTION THREE "The Cruel Winds,"&by Julius Fast 81
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Choosing Medical Care 90
CHAPTER five 第五章 High Tech,Low Tech 高科技，低科技 91
SELECTION ONE "First-Time Tourists Need a Pocket Guide to Downtown internet,"&by Peter H.Lewis 92
SELECTION TWO "Laser:Supertool of Our Time,"&by Jeff Hecht and Dick Teresi 98
WHAT DO YOU THINK?Taking the Chunnel 106
SELECTION THREE "Privacy Loses to Computer,"&by Larry Tye 107
CHAPTER six 第六章 Money Matters 金融 115
SELECTION ONE "Executive Takes Chance on Pizza,Transforms Spain,"&by Stephen Wade 116
SELECTION TWO "Who Owns What in America?",&by Andy Rooney 122
SELECTION THREE "The Luncheon,"&by W.Somerset Maugham 125
WHAT DO YOU THINK ? Using Credit Cards 132
CHAPTER Seven 第七章 Leisure Time 休闲时光 133
SELECTION ONE "Living with Television,"&by David Finkel 134
SELECTION TWO "For Casinos,'Six-Hou r Visitors'Make a Full House,"&by Walter Brasch 141
SELECTION THREE "Soccer and American Football,"from Rules of the Game 146
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Exercising 150
CHAPTER eight 第八章 Creativity 创造力 151
SELECTION ONE "New York Botanist Wins Nobel Medical Prize,"from American Medical News 152
SELECTION TWO "Guggenheim Museum U.S.A.,"&by Flavio Conti 156
SELECTION THREE "We Can't Just Sit Back and Hope,"&by Dotson Rader 164
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Creativity in Men and Women 169
CHAPTER nine 第九章 Human Behavior 人类行为 171
SELECTION ONE "Ethnocentrism,"&by John Friedl 172
SELECTION TWO "A Clean,Well-Lighted Place,"&by Ernest Hemingway 179
SELECTION THREE "The Spell of the Yukon,"&by Robert Service 186
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Blaming Others 192
CHAPTER ten 第十章 Crime and Punishment 犯罪与惩罚 193
SELECTION ONE "Soapy Smith,"&by Stan B.Cohen 194
SELECTION TWO "Anecdotes of Minister Maimaiti:A Uygur Man's Black Humor,"&by Wang Meng,Translated by Qingyun Wu 199
SELECTION THREE "Born Bad?",&by Glenn Ga relik 215
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Using the Death Penalty 224
CHAPTER eleven 第十一章 The Physical World 自然界 225
SELECTION ONE "Hothouse Earth,"&by Kevin McKean 226
SELECTION TWO "Mig ration and Homing,"from Life on Earth 233
SELECTION THREE "Recycling:Getting the Most Out of Our Garbage,"&by Peter Tonge 239
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Littering 244
CHAPTER tweleve 第十二章 Together on a Small Planet 共同拥有的小星球 245
SELECTION ONE "Books,"by Jorge Luis Borges 246
SELECTION TWO "Three Days to See,"by Helen Keller 247
SELECTION THREE "Good Friends...Dogs,Sons and Others,"by Willie Morris 251
SELECTION FOUR 255
"People,"by Yevgeny Yevtushenko 255
"Poem,"by Ono no Komachi 256
"Poem,"by Paavo Haavikko 256
"Caged Bird,"by Maya Angelou 257
"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"(Selections) 258
SELECTION FIVE Inaugural Address of John F.Kennedy 260
SELECTION SIX "Susana and the Shepherd,"&by Margaret Craven 263
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Reading 279