Unit One Language 1
Text 1 The Semiliterate Shakespeare 2
Text 2 The Birth of Scientific English 6
Text 3 The Origin of Language 9
Unit Two Multiple Intelligences 15
Text 1 How Did the MI Theory Come into Being？ 16
Text 2 MI Theory and Its Educational Implications 20
Text 3 Conceptual Problems of MI Theory 23
Unit Three Work 27
Text 1 My First Job 28
Text 2 Work to Live or Live to Work? 32
Text 3 How to Move Ahead in a Dead-End Job 36
Unit Four Ecotourism 41
Text 1 Defining Ecotourism 42
Text 2 A Guide to Ecotourism Etiquette 46
Text 3 Sold Out 50
Unit Five East and West 55
Text 1 Shanghai Puts on a Green Face 56
Text 2 Foreign Youth Have Faulty Ideals of U.S 60
Text 3 East and West：Seeing the World through Different Lenses 63
Unit Six Youth and Age 67
Text 1 Old at Seventeen 68
Text 2 The New Midlife 72
Text 3 Aging in the Land of the Young 77
Unit Seven Men and Women 81
Text 1 Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls 82
Text 2 Blasting Some Unmanly Myths 86
Text 3 Why I Want a Wife 89
Unit Eight Beauty 93
Text 1 A Woman's Beauty：Put-down or Power Source？ 94
Text 2 The Hidden Face of Beauty 98
Text 3 Beauty's Truth 102
Answers 107