Uint One 1
Background Knowledge 1
Text A How I Got Smart 1
Text B Coming of Age 11
Text C Romance and Realily 19
Notes to Fast Reading 24
Supplementary Exercises 27
Text A The Titanic Puzzle 30
Background Knowledge 30
Unit Two 30
Text B Unjust Desserls 40
Text C Will You Go Out with Me? 47
Notes to Fast Reading 52
Supplementary Exercises 55
Unit Three 59
Background Knowledge 59
Text A The Sense of Wonder 59
Text B The Innocent Eye 71
Text C If I Were 21 80
Notes to Fast Reading 85
Supplementary Exercises 87
Unit Four 90
Background Knowledge 90
Text A College Pressures 91
Text B College Lectures:Is Anybody Listening? 100
Text C What Is College for 109
Notes to Fast Reading 114
Supplementary Exercises 118
Unit Five 122
Background Knowledge 122
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A：America Seen with European Eyes 122
Text B American Values and Assumptions 131
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist s Observation of Americans 136
Notes to Fast Reading 139
Supplementary Exercises 142
Text A Every 23 Minutes 146
Unit Six 146
Background Knowledge 146
Text B Needed:A License to Drink 152
Text C My Daughter Smokes 159
Notes to Fast Reading 162
Supplementary Exercises 166
Unit Seven 170
Background Knowledge 170
Text A So What s So Bad about Being So-So? 170
Text B Stripping down to Bare Happiness 182
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 189
Notes to Fast Reading 194
Supplementary Exercises 197
Unit Eight 200
Background Knowledge 200
Text A The Highs of Low Technology 201
Text B Why I m Not Going to Buy a Computer 208
Text C Obsolete Technology 213
Notes to Fast Reading 217
Supplementary Exercises 219
Unit Nine 223
Background Knowledge 223
Text A Space Politics 224
Text B Message to the Unknown 233
Text C Your Future in Space 244
Notes to Fast Reading 248
Supplementary Exercises 250
Unit Ten 254
Background Knowledge 254
Text A Plain Talk about Handling Stress 254
Text B Energy Walks 264
Text C Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry 272
Notes to Fast Reading 277
Supplementary Exercises 279
Key to Supplementary Exercises 283