Unit One 1
Text A What to Listen for in Music 1
Text B The Eloquent Sounds of Silence 12
Twenty Minutes' Reading 18
Unit Two 22
Text A Your Speech Is Changing 22
Text B How to Talk about the World 30
Twenty Minutes' Reading 36
Unit Three 40
Text A A Love Affair with Books 40
Text B The Lost Art of Reading 48
Twenty Minutes' Reading 58
Unit Four 62
Text A Thinking as a Hobby 62
Text B The Art of Living Simply 74
Twenty Minutes' Reading 83
Unit Five 87
Text A Once More to the Lake 87
Text B The Almost Perfect State 94
Twenty Minutes' Reading 105
Unit Six 108
Text A Middle Age, Old Age 108
Text B Men Are Very Delicate 116
Twenty Minutes' Reading 123
Unit Seven 127
Text A Beauty 127
Text B Cinderella's Stepsisters 134
Twenty Minutes' Reading 140
Unit Eight 143
Text A In Praise of Idleness 143
Text B To Err Is Human 151
Twenty Minutes' Reading 158
Unit Nine 163
Text A On National Prejudice 163
Text B Politics and the English Language 170
Twenty Minutes' Reading 181
Unit Ten 184
Text A Daydreams of What You' d Rather Be 184
Text B Culture and Food Habits 193
Twenty Minutes' Reading 200
Unit Eleven 204
Text A Photographs of My Parents 204
Text B Two Ways to Belong in America 212
Twenty Minutes' Reading 220
Unit Twelve 224
Text A Three Types of Resistance to Oppression 224
Text B Loneliness...An American Malady 232
Twenty Minutes' Reading 238