Unit One 1
Text1 The Romance of Words 1
Text2 How to Find Time to Read 9
Text3 How the Pros Study-read 16
Text4 Big Blunders from Big Business 25
Text5 Education around the World 33
Text6 Education in Australia 37
Text7 Modes of Instruction 45
Text8 Schools in the U.S. 52
Text9 Are Books and Endangered Species? 64
Unit Two 69
Text1 Cities 69
Text2 Cities of the Future 74
Text3 New York City 81
Text4 Washington D.C. 86
Text5 The United States of America 93
Text6 Switzerland 98
Text7 Using Land Wisely 108
Text8 Background to New York 116
Unit Three 141
Text1 Blood Transfusion 141
Text2 Organ Transplantation 146
Text3 History of Computers 153
Text4 Electronic Computers 159
Text5 How Are Computers Changing Our World? 166
Text6 Fifth-Generation Computers 172
Text7 Tech Best Bets 180
Text8 Was the Cosmos Seeded with Life? 189
Text9 Listening for Aliens 195
Text10 Telltale Trees 204
Unit Four 213
Text1 Pandora s Box 213
Text2 The Creation of the World 219
Text3 The Garden of Eden and Man s First sin 223
Text4 The Good News-Bible 231
Text5 Touring by Model T 250
Text6 Broadway and Beyond 256
Text7 Hollywood 263
Text8 Feels like Spring 270
Text9 The Canterbury Tales 276
Text10 Jane Eyre 292
Text11 Wuthering Heights 308
Text12 A Surprise Catch 319
Unit Five 329
Text1 American Sports 329
Text2 The Olympic Games 343
Text3 The Glory of the Olympic Games 349
Text4 Place Wars and the Olympic Games 358
Text5 Soccer s Wild World Cup Scramble 369
Text6 What You Don t Know about Exercise 382
Text7 American Baseball 387
Text8 Boxing--Legalized Murder? 394
Text9 Albert Einstein 405
Text10 Thomas Alva Edison 412
Text11 The Wright Brothers 422
Text12 Benjamin Franklin 430
Text13 Three Days to See 442