Unit 1
Keys to College Success 1
Managing Your Time 8
Unit 2
13 Women and Their Necklace 14
13 Women and Their Necklace(continued) 18
Unit 3
Does Beauty Bring You Power? 22
Queen of the Universe 27
Unit 4
The Time Machine 30
Star Light 34
Unit 5
Cat in the Rain 39
Generations of Love 43
Unit 6
Oscar:Little Statue of Dreams 47
The Shakespeare Nobody Knows 51
Unit 7
Love—In Other Words 55
Christmas to Me 60
Unit 8
Work Hours and Productivity Change with the Times 64
The Saturday Evening Post 67
Unit 9
The Cash-free Society 72
The Next Society 75
Unit 10
The Problem of Fathers and Sons 81
The Professor Is a Dropout 84
Unit 11
Colorful Words,Colored Words and Colorless Words 92
Junk English 95
Unit 12
Henry Ford—The Man behind the Legend 99
Rosa Parks 102
Unit 13
One Vote for This Age of Anxiety 108
Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go 112
Unit 14
Can We and Should We Clone Humans?(Part One) 117
Can We and Should We Clone Humans?(Part Two) 120
Unit 15
What's Your Emotional IQ? 124
A New Attitude to Gratitude 129
Unit 16
The Information Age 133
Life on the Net 136
Unit 17
What's Wrong with Global Warming? 139
The Risk of Climate Change is Genuine and Serious 142
Unit 18
Seven Kinds of Smart 147
Test Your Memory 152
Unit 19
The Science of Attraction 158
The Nothingness of Happiness 162
Unit 20
How to Live to Be 200 166
Why do We Age and Die? 169
Key to the Exercises 175