Unit 1 1
Text A My Life 1
Text B The New Job 5
Unit 2 11
Text A My Oedipus Complex(Ⅰ) 11
Text B My Oedipus Complex(Ⅱ) 18
Unit 3 25
Text A Good Taste in Knowledge 25
Text B Inquiry Can Take the Content out of Education 30
Unit 4 34
Text A The Merits of Meritocracy 34
Text B The Story of the A-Bomb Kid 39
Unit 5 46
Text A Space Speaks 46
Text B Don't Misread My Signals 51
Unit 6 55
Text A Ambushed in the Dentist's Chair as Time Goes By 55
Text B Tea 59
Unit 7 65
Text A The Aims of Education 65
Text B Liberal Arts for the 21st Century 69
Unit 8 73
Text A When You Must Make a Lasting Impression 73
Text B What I've Learned from Men 77
Unit 9 84
Text A Japanese and American Workers:Two Casts of Mind 84
Text B The Japanese Approach to Business 91
Unit 10 96
Text A Miss Amelia and Marvin Macy 96
Text B Rural Love Story 100
Unit 11 104
Text A For the Birds 104
Text B Ten Major Threads to the Environment 110
Unit 12 117
Text A How to Survive a Disaster(Ⅰ) 117
Text B How to Survive a Disaster(Ⅱ) 122
Unit 13 129
Text A Bad Managers 129
Text B Loyalty Has to Be Earned 133
Unit 14 138
Text A The Same Language? 138
Text B The Role of English in the 21st Century 142
Unit 15 147
Text A The Curse of Vanishing Wealth 147
Text B Marketing to Innocents 153
Unit 16 158
Text A Looking to Eat Nokia's Lunch 158
Text B House of Cards 164
Unit 17 168
Text A Is America Losing at Globalization? 168
Text B Common Wealth 173
Unit 18 181
Text A How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?(Ⅰ) 181
Text B How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?(Ⅱ) 188
Unit 19 192
Text A On Plagiarism 192
Text B The New Plagiarism:Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age 197
Unit 20 203
Text A Who Was More Important:Lincoln or Darwin?(Ⅰ) 203
Text B Who Was More Important:Lincoln or Darwin?(Ⅱ) 209
Answer Keys 217