Unit One 1
Text A How I Got Smart 2
Text B Coming of Age 18
Text C Romance and Reality 25
Unit Two 29
Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat？ 30
Text B Unjust Desserts 46
Text C Will You Go Out with Me？ 52
Unit Three 57
Text A The Sense of Wonder 58
Text B The Innocent Eye 72
Text C If I Were 21 80
Unit Four 83
Text A College Pressures 84
Text B College Lectures：Is Anybody Listening？ 97
Text C What Is College for？ 105
Unit Five 111
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.：America Seen with European Eyes 112
Text B American Values and Assumptions 127
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist’s Observation of Americans 135
Unit Six 139
Text A Every 23 Minutes 140
Text B Needed：A License to Drink 154
Text C My Daughter Smokes 162
Unit Seven 167
Text A So What’s So Bad About Being So-So？ 168
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 182
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 189
Unit Eight 195
Text A Space Politics 196
Text B Message to the Unknown 210
Text C Your Future in Space 217
Glossary 222