Unit 1 Ways of Learning 1
Text A Learning,Chinese-Style 1
Text B Children and Money 17
Unit 2 Values 32
Text A The Richest Man in America,Down Home 32
Text B The Restoration of Jimmy Carter 44
Unit 3 The Generation Gap 61
Text A Father Knows Better 61
Text B When Father Doesn't Know Best 72
Unit 4 The Virtual World 87
Text A A Virtual Life 87
Text B Mother's Mad About the Internuts 99
Text A True Height 114
Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles 114
Text B Fourteen Steps 122
Unit 6 Women,Half the Sky 138
Text A I'm Going to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge 138
Text B Beginning A New 148
Unit 7 Learning about English 162
Text A The Glorious Messiness of English 162
Text B The Role of English in the 21st Century 173
Unit 8 Protecting Our Environment 186
Text A Saving Nature,But Only for Man 186
Text B An Ugly New Footprint in the Sand 197
Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises(Units 1-8) 211
Appendix Ⅱ Chinese Translations of Texts A(Units 1-8) 238
Appendix Ⅲ Chinese Translations of Texts B(Units 1-8) 253