Unit 1 1
Text A-1 Welcome Letter for New First-Year Students 1
Text A-2 Student Opinion 4
Text B-1 A Day in the Life of Jane Wesley 7
Text B-2 Tips for First-Year Students 9
Unit 2 15
Text A-1 Making Friends 15
Text A-2 Black and White 18
Text B-1 Friends 21
Text B-2 Friendship 23
Unit 3 27
Text A-1 Stephen Hawking 27
Text A-2 Can Computers Replace People? 30
Text B-1 The Scientific Method(1) 33
Text B-2 The Scientific Method(2) 36
Unit 4 41
Text A-1 A Country of Immigrants 41
Text A-2 Andrew Carnegie 44
Text B-1 The Automobile in American Life 48
Text B-2 I.M.Pei 51
Unit 5 55
Text A-1 The Waitress 55
Text A-2 My First Job 58
Text B-1 Jump 60
Text B-2 The Death Car 63
Unit 6 67
Text A-1 Cycling for Air—With Love 67
Text A-2 Internet Love Can Work 69
Text B-1 The Woman of His Dreams 73
Text B-2 Early Autumn 76
Unit 7 79
Text A-1 Alex,the Talking Parrot 79
Text A-2 Do Animals Think? 81
Text B-1 Natural and Applied Science 85
Text B-2 The Link Between Pure and Applied Science 88
Unit 8 91
Text A-1 Adult Education in the U.S 91
Text A-2 Nobody Can Do It Like Mc Donald's 93
Text B-1 Continuing Education Classes 96
Text B-2 Biological Clocks 100
Appendix 103
Key to Comprehension Exercises 103