UNIT1 1
1.How to Be a Patient Person 1
2.Snapshot of a Dog 8
3.Is Speed Reading Overrated? 15
UNIT2 21
4.I Gave My Word to Become Educated 21
5.Women and the Vote 30
6.Hollywood 38
UNIT3 44
7.The Power of a Good Name 44
8.White-Collar Confession(Ⅰ) 50
9.White-Collar Confession(Ⅱ) 59
UNIT4 68
10.Long Walk to Freedom 68
11.Crime-Busting Computers 75
12. I Wants to Go to the Prose 83
UNIT5 90
13.Home,Sweet (and Sour) Home 90
14.The Egalitarian Error 97
15.A Family Who Nurtured a Superstar 104
16.Grant and Lee 112
UNIT6 112
17.On Friendship 121
18.If You Had to Kill Your Own Hog 129
UNIT7 135
19.I Went to Oxford 135
20.Hiking the Appalachian Trail 144
21.The Future of International Communications 152
UNIT8 160
22.The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 160
23.Heritage of Freedom(Ⅰ) 167
24.Heritage of Freedom(Ⅱ) 177
UNIT9 186
25.Solve That Problem with Humor 186
26.The Money 194
27.Self-Esteem: The Myth of Feeling Good About Oneself 205
UNIT10 214
28.The Legacy of D-Day 214
29.Travels with Charley 224
30.A Chinese in Colonial Australia 232
Glossary 240
Key to T or F and MC Questions 270