Unit One Stories About Celebrities 1
Reading1 Prologue(From Celine Dion: My Story, My Dream) 2
Reading2 It s the Books That Changed Me 8
Reading3 Prince William: To Be the King of Hollywood Action Movies? 12
Unit TWO languages, Silent and Vocal 16
Reading1 Eye Language 17
Reading2 The Power of Words 23
Reading3 Where Do You Stand? 28
Unit Three Aspects of American Culture 31
Reading1 The Melting Pot and the Salad Bowl 32
Reading2 Hispanic, USA: The Conveyor-Belt Ladies 38
Reading3 The American Attitude Toward Time 45
Unit Four Lifestyles 48
Reading1 Fashions 49
Reading2 Short Skirts of the Twenties and Sixties 55
Reading3 Cell, Phones, E-mail and Voice Mail 60
Unit Five Work and Workholics 65
Reading1 Manual Labor and the Spirit of Do-It-Yourself 66
Reading2 Workaholism 71
Reading3 The Company Man 75
Unit Six Scientists and Inventors 81
Reading1 Hawking Gets Personal 82
Reading2 My Experience with ALS 88
Reading3 Thank you, My.Chips 93
Unit Seven Learning from Failures 98
Reading1 Famous Faiures 99
Reading2 The Day I Flunked Out of Law School 105
Reading3 Water Over the Dam 109
Unit Eight Modern Man s Life 115
Reading1 Stress and Technology 116
Reading2 Overload: More Time Is less Time 122
Reading3 Out of Step 127
Unit Nine The Beauty of Science 135
Reading1 Dancing to the Music of Physics 136
Reading2 The World of Virtual Reality 142
Reading3 Practice Makes Perfect 149
Unit Ten What is Art? 154
Reading1 The Arts Are Essential 155
Reading2 What Can We Learn from Art? 161
Reading3 Frida Kahlo: Mexico s Best-Known Woman Painter 166
Keys to Exercises 171