UNIt1 1
1.The Open Window 1
2.The Winged Magician: The First Aerial Flight in Australia 8
3.Polities:Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary 16
UNIT2 22
4.Drowning 22
5.Less Time for House Chores 29
6.Mark Twain s Speechmaking Strategy 39
UNIT3 45
7.My Way to Success 45
8.Why Smart People Fail 54
9.I Never Had It Made 61
UNIT4 68
10.The City 68
11.My Cousin, the Gambler 76
12.Waiting-Room 84
UNIT5 93
13.The Kindness of Strangers 93
14.Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn t Come Till 4:30 100
15.The Pace of Life 108
16.The Importance of Being Interested 116
UNIT6 116
17.Why Graduates Won t Wear Science 126
18.Sold on the Super Mall 134
UNIT7 141
19.Mr.Know-All 141
20.They Created the Jet Age 152
21.The Hungry World 160
UNIT8 168
22.Carnegie, an American Industrialist 168
23. No Horse, No,Wife, No Mustache 178
24.Adolf Hitler s Mein Kampf 188
UNIT9 194
25.Family Ties 194
26.Improving the Quality of Life 202
27.The Nobel Prizes 211
UNIT10 218
28.University Days 218
29.Space-30 Years into the Future 228
30. A Troublesome Boy 238
Glossary 246
Key to T or F and MC Questions 273