Unit 1 1
Text A American Dreams 1
Text B The End of Adulthood? 15
Unit 2 21
Text A Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? 21
Text B Spatial Segregation and Gender Stratification in the Workplace 38
Unit 3 45
Text A Hospice Care or Assisted Suicide:A False Dichotomy 45
Text B Give and Take 59
Unit 4 65
Text A Genetic Engineering Benefits Society 65
Text B Genetic Engineering Could Be Dangerous 80
Unit 5 86
Text A The Case of the Missing Carbon 86
Text B Speech on Sustainable Development 101
Unit 6 109
Text A Thinking as a Hobby（Ⅰ） 109
Text B Thinking as a Hobby（Ⅱ） 124
Unit 7 130
Text A Prison of Socrates 130
Text B Ideas Come First 143
Unit 8 149
Text A On National Prejudices 149
Text B The Spirit of the English Nation 163
Unit 9 168
Text A When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is"A Waste of Time" 168
Text B Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls 181
Unit 10 186
Text A The Cult of Busyness 186
Text B Exercising the Brain 199
Unit 11 207
Text A My Friend,Albert Einstein 207
Text B How He Got Up There 223
Unit 12 228
Text A The Future of Money 228
Text B Hypermediation:Commerce as Clickstream 246
Glossary 253