Unit One 1
Reading 1 The New Schoolmaster 1
Reading 2 Photographing History 6
Reading 3 John F.Kennedy Jr.： What Would He Have Made of His Life？ 12
Unit Two 20
Reading 1 Perfect Harmony 20
Reading 2 You Can Win Them All 24
Reading 3 My Father’s Gift of Magic 31
Unit Three 38
Reading 1 A Real Life Miracle： Perfect Match 38
Reading 2 Gift of Life Delivered！ 43
Reading 3 What Makes a Place a Home 48
Unit Four 55
Reading 1 Italy Eyes Concept of Selling Sun’s Energy 55
Reading 2 Frank Lloyd Wright and His “Falling Water” 60
Reading 3 Glass： Capturing the Dance of Light 65
Unit Five 70
Reading 1 Gregor Mendel ： The Father of Modern Genetics 70
Reading 2 James Watson and Francis Crick 77
Reading 3 The Development of Television 82
Unit Six 89
Reading 1 Why a Liberal Arts Major Makes Business Sense 89
Reading 2 American Schools and Minority Students 95
Reading 3 BA’ 85 ： The Unlucky Journey of a Young Classicist-Cum-Clerk 102
Unit Seven 109
Reading 1 Online Education： A Virtual Boom 109
Reading 2 Computer Literacy 115
Reading 3 Men， Women and Computers 120
Unit Eight 127
Reading 1 Calling Home 127
Reading 2 Cracking Down on Computer Crime 134
Reading 3 The Case of the Shaking Hand 140
Appendix 148
Key to Exercises 148