Unit One 1
单元内容概述 1
Text A How I Got Smart 1
Contents 1
Text B Coming of Age 9
Text C Romance and Reality 13
实践训练 15
Unit Two 19
单元内容概述 19
Text A The Titanic Puzzle 19
Text B Unjust DesserTs 31
Text C Will you Go Out with Me？ 36
实践训练 39
单元内容概述 42
Text A The Sense of Wonder 42
Unit Three 42
Text B The Innocent Eye 49
Text C If I Were 21 52
实践训练 54
Unit Four 57
单元内容概述 57
Text A College Pressures 57
Text B College Lectures：Is Anybody Listening？ 64
Text C What Is College for？ 68
实践训练 70
Unit Five 74
单元内容概述 74
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.：America Seen with European Eyes 74
Text B American Values and Assumption 82
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist’s Observation of Americans 88
实践训练 89
Test Paper One 93
Unit Six 101
单元内容概述 101
Text A Every 23 Minutes 101
Text B Needed：A License to Drink 109
Text C My Daughter Smokes 115
实践训练 117
Unit Seven 121
单元内容概述 121
Text A So What’s So Bad About Being So-So？ 121
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness 128
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job 132
实践训练 133
Unit Eight 138
单元内容概述 138
Text A The Highs of Low Technology 138
Text B Why I’m Not Going to Buy a Computer 147
Text C Obsolete Technology 153
实践训练 155
Unit Nine 158
单元内容概述 158
Text A Space Politics 158
Text B Message to the Unknown 164
Text C Your Future in Space 168
实践训练 170
Unit Ten 173
单元内容概述 173
Text A Plain Talk About Handling Stress 173
Text B Energy Walks 181
Text C Five Methods I Have Used to Banish Worry 184
实践训练 185
Test Paper Two 190
Test Paper Three 197