Lesson One Text:The Art of Reading 读书的艺术 1
Lesson Two Text:How Brain Research Got Started 大脑的研究是如何开始的 17
Lesson Three Text:Culture Shock and the Problem of Adjustment in New Cultural Environments 文化冲击 29
Lesson Four Text:How to Grow Old 如何永葆青春 43
Lesson Five Text:On Keeping a Journal 谈随笔 54
Lesson Six Text:The Jeaning of America 牛仔史话 67
Lesson Seven Text:A New Role forthe Zoo 动物园的新作用 79
Lesson Eight Text:Protect Yourself-Buckle up 保护你自己一请用安全带 92
Lesson Nine Text:Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? 为什么好人会遭厄运？ 105
Lesson Ten Text:Pompeii 庞贝城 117
Lesson Eleven Text:The Snob 势利眼 131
Lesson Twelve Text:A Human Hand in Yangtze Flooding 长江水灾的人为因素 146
Lesson Thirteen Text:Neat People vs.Sloppy People 整洁君与邋遢人 156
Lesson Fourteen Text:Are You Alive? 你活着吗？ 169
Lesson Fifteen Text:That Lean and Hungry Look 瘦子之相 182
Lesson Sixteen Text:The"Unsinkable"Titanic Went Down “永不沉没”的泰坦尼克号真的沉没了 195
Lesson Seventeen Text:Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy 疼痛不是最可怕的敌人 210
Lesson Eighteen Text:Autotelic Self 自律人生 226
Lesson Nineteen Text:Advertising Claims 广告的诱惑 240
Lesson Twenty Text:What Is Poverty? 何为贫穷？ 252
Lesson Twenty-one Text:Remarks on the Politeness of North America 北美礼仪谈 266
Lesson Twenty-two Text:Off the Ladder 与世无争 277
Lesson Twenty-three Text:Friends,Good Friends,and Such Good Friends 朋友,好朋友，如此好朋友 292
Lesson Twenty-four Text:Engineer Wanted 招聘工程师 304
Lesson Twenty-five Text:The Healing Power of Belief 信念的神奇治愈力 319
Lesson Twenty-six Text:Pollution Is a Dirty Word 污染是一个肮脏的字眼 333
Lesson Twenty-seven Text:The Thin Rats Bury the Fat Rats 瘦老鼠埋葬肥老鼠 346
Lesson Twenty-eight Text:Sounds of Silence(1) 沉默的语言（1） 360
Lesson Twenty-nine Text:Sounds of Silence(2) 沉默的语言（2） 382
Lesson Thirty Text:Flu:Sure Nuisance,Possible Disaster 流感 396
Key to"Understanding the Text" 409