Unit One 1
Reading 1 The New Schoolmaster 1
Reading 2 Photographing History 5
Reading 3 John F.Kennedy Jr.:What Would He Have Made of His Life? 11
Unit Two 17
Reading 1 Perfect Harmony 17
Reading 2 You Can Win Them All 21
Reading 3 My Father's Gift of Magic 27
Unit Three 33
Reading 1 A Real Life Miracle:Perfect Match 33
Reading 2 Gift of Life—Delivered! 37
Reading 3 What Makes a Place a Home 41
Unit Four 47
Reading 1 Italy Eyes Concept of Selling Sun's Energy 47
Reading 2 Frank Lloyd Wright and His"Falling Water" 53
Reading 3 Glass:Capturing the Dance of Light 57
Unit Five 61
Reading 1 Gregor Mendel:The Father of Modern Genetics 61
Reading 2 James Watson and Francis Crick 67
Reading 3 The Development of Television 73
Unit Six 79
Reading 1 Why a Liberal Arts Major Makes Business Sense 79
Reading 2 American Schools and Minority Students 83
Reading 3 BA'85:The Unlucky Journey of a Young Classicist-Cum-Clerk 89
Unit Seven 95
Reading 1 How to Hear English Everywhere 95
Reading 2 Computer Literacy 101
Reading 3 Men,Women and Computers 105
Unit Eight 111
Reading 1 Calling Home 111
Reading 2 Cracking Down on Computer Crime 117
Reading 3 The Case of the Shaking Hand 123
Appendix 131
Keys to Exercises(Unit One—Unit Eight) 131