Book Ⅰ 3
Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille 3
Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the"Liveliest"City in Japan 9
Lesson 3 Blackmail 16
Lesson 4 The Trial That Rocked the World 23
Lesson 5 The Libido for the Ugly 32
Lesson 6 Mark Twain—Mirror of America 37
Lesson 7 Everyday Use 46
Lesson 8 Three Cups of Tea(Excerpts) 56
Lesson 9 A More Perfect Union(Part Ⅰ) 62
Lesson 10 A More Perfect Union(Part Ⅱ) 66
Lesson 11 The Way to Rainy Mountain 70
Lesson 12 Ships in the Desert(Edited) 79
Lesson 13 No Signposts in the Sea(Excerpts) 83
Lesson 14 Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R 89
Lesson 15 Argentia Bay(Excerpts) 96
Book Ⅱ 105
Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King's English 105
Lesson 2 Marrakech 111
Lesson 3 Inaugural Address(January 20,1961) 119
Lesson 4 Love Is a Fallacy 125
Lesson 5 The Sad Young Men 133
Lesson 6 Loving and Hating New York 142
Lesson 7 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas(Excerpts) 148
Lesson 8 The Future of the English 155
Lesson 9 The Loons 160
Lesson 10 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 166
Lesson 11 Four Laws of Ecology(Part Ⅰ) 172
Lesson 12 Four Laws of Ecology(Part Ⅱ) 178
Lesson 13 The Mansion:A Subprime Parable(Excerpts) 184
Lesson 14 Faustian Economics 192
Lesson 15 Disappearing Through the Skylight 201