Unit One 1
Text A Future Shlock by Neil Postman 1
Text B The Huxleyan Warning by Neil Postman 14
Unit Two 21
Text A Why People Don't Help in A Crisis？by John M.Darley＆Bibb Latané 21
Text B Territorial Behavior by Desmond Morris 33
Unit Three 39
Text A Death and Justice：How Capital Punishment Affirms Life by Edward I.Koch 39
Text B The Death Penalty by David Bruck 52
Unit Four 57
Text A The Promise by W.Somerset Maugham 57
Text B Theft by Katherine Anne Porter 71
Unit Five 79
Text A The Fine Art of Complaining by Caroline Rego 79
Text B How Urban Myths Reveal Society's Fears by Neal Gabler 91
Unit Six 95
Text A Politics and the English Language by George Orwell 95
Text B The Politics of Starvation by George Orwell 107
Unit Seven 111
Text A The Human Drift by Jack London 111
Text B Reality and Contrivance by Erving Goffman 127
Unit Eight 133
Text A New York by Gay Talese 133
Text B The Aspect of London by Arthur Symons 146
Unit Nine 151
Text A Mother by Sherwood Anderson 151
Text B A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley 165
Unit Ten 171
Text A The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe 171
Text B A College Vagabond by Andy Adams 185
Glossary 195