Unit One 1
Text A College Pressures 1
Text B In Defense of Literacy 19
Unit Two 28
Text A The New Civilization 28
Text B Hyperculture 43
Unit Three 59
Text A The Black and White Truth about Basketball 59
Text B Women,Baseball,and Words 74
Unit Four 83
Text A Growing Up in New York 83
Text B Mother Tongue 99
Unit Five 111
Text A Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrasts 111
Text B The Rise of Lincoln 126
Unit Six 138
Text A Death and Justice 138
Text B A Life for a Life:What That Means Today 154
Unit Seven 165
Text A The Western Concept of Politics 165
Text B Why Western History Matters 177
Unit Eight 189
Text A Disobedience as a Psychological and Moral Problem 189
Text B Groupthink 204
Unit Nine 217
Text A The Silent Voices of the Elderly 217
Text B The Retired Man 233
Unit Ten 241
Text A The Virtual Community(Ⅰ) 241
Text B The Virtual Community(Ⅱ) 257
Unit Eleven 264
Text A The Year of the Genome 264
Text B Ⅰ．Year of the Genome 283
Ⅱ．Humans Aren't So Complicated 285
Unit Twelve 296
Text A The Death of the Moth 296
Text B Reading the River 307
Key to the Exercises 313