Unit One 1
1．How to Be a Patient Person 1
2．Snapshot of a Dog 7
3．Is Speed Reading Overrated? 14
Unit Two 20
4．I Gave My Word to Become Educated 20
5．Women and the Vote 28
6．Hollywood 36
Unit Three 42
7．The Power of a Good Name 42
8．White-Collar Confession(1) 49
9．White-Collar Confession(2) 58
Unit Four 65
10．Long Walk to Freedom 65
11．Crime-Busting Computers 74
12．"I Wants to Go to the Prose" 81
Unit Five 91
13．Home,Sweet(and Sour)Home 91
14．The Egalitarian Error 97
15．A Family Who Nurtured a Superstar 106
Unit Six 113
16．Grant and Lee 113
17．On Friendship 123
18．If You Had to Kill Your Own Hog 134
Unit Seven 143
19．I Went to Oxford 143
20．Hiking the Appalachian Trail 153
21．The Future of Intemational Communications 162
Unit Eight 172
22．The Best of Times,the Worst of Times 172
23．Heritage of Freedom(1) 180
24．Heritage of Freedom(2) 188
Unit Nine 193
25．Solve That Problem with Humor 193
26．The Money 203
27．Self-Esteem:The Myth of Feeling Good About Oneself 208
Unit Ten 214
28．The Legacy of D-Day 214
29．Travels with Charley 221
30．A Chinese in Colonial Australia 227