Unit One This School Turns out Winners 1
Supplementary Reading 11
Passage One Education in South Dakota 11
Passage Two Colleges Ask：Can Enrollment Be too High? 15
References American Education 18
Unit Two In Another Country 22
Supplementary Reading 32
Passage One Watching the Sea from an Island 33
Passage Two One Friday Morning 35
References Earnest Hemingway 40
Unit Three Our Plague of Pessimism 42
Passage One The Night That a Blind Man Helped Man to See Lifting the Veil 50
Supplementary Reading 50
Passage Two Celebrating a Lifetime 54
References Communications Media in the United States 57
Unit Four Should We Clone Humans? 60
Supplementary Reading 68
Passage One Clone：Will There Be“Carbon Copy”People? 69
Passage Two Surrogate Motherhood 72
References Cloning 74
Unit Five What Can You Do to Fight Against Crime? 76
Supplementary Reading 85
Passage One Crime from Grime Gene? 86
Passage Two Unfair Attitude to Crimers 88
References Crime 91
Unit Six Adventures of a Shilling 94
Supplementary Reading 103
Passage One Pride and Prejudice 103
Passage Two Dream Children：A Reverie 107
References Addison and“The Spectator” 111
Unit Seven How to Copy with Personal Crisis? 113
Supplementary Reading 123
Passage One On Unemployment 123
Passage Two The History of Alcohol Prohibition 125
References Divorce and Unemployment Problems 128
Unit Eight The Industrial Revolution 130
Supplementary Reading 140
Passage One The British Political Parties 140
Passage Two The British Monarchy 143
References Background to the Industrial Revolution 146
Unit Nine Troubled Families，Joyful Families 148
Supplementary Reading 157
Passage One Women and Children Adrift：The Divorce Revolution 157
Passage Two The Marriage Partnership 160
References Marriage and so On 163
Unit Ten For all the Time 166
Supplementary Reading 176
Passage One The Theatre in Elizabethan Time 176
Passage Two Hamlet 179
References Introduction 181
附录 184