Unit 1 The Healing Art 1
Unit 2 Fighting the Pack Mentality 6
Unit 3 Coming Up Short 12
Unit 4 Time to Choose 18
Unit 5 Feeding Frenzy 23
Unit 6 Don't Spare the Rod 28
Unit 7 The Addictive Personality 33
Unit 8 Overstressed by Success 39
Unit 9 Give Me Your Rich, and Stay 44
Unit 10 Insects Used to Nail a Criminal 49
Unit 47 Japan's Quality Quandary 52
Uint 11 The Little Boy Who Couldn't Cry 54
Unit 12 The Language of the Future? 60
Unit 13 They Eat Lion Meat 65
Unit 14 I Am American Too 70
Unit 15 The Myth of German Efficiency (Ⅰ) 76
Unit 16 The Myth of German Efficiency (Ⅱ) 82
Unit 17 Be Kind to Your Child 87
Unit 18 The Fate of Bicycles 93
Unit 19 Nightmare in "The Tube" 98
Unit 20 Sweet Dreams or Nightmare? 103
Unit 21 Wives before Their Time 109
Unit 22 Falling Further Behind 115
Unit 23 Every Man for Himself 121
Unit 24 A Vote for the Future 126
Unit 25 For Longer Life, Take a Wife 132
Unit 26 Can the Mind Help Cure Disease? 137
Unit 27 At the Universities, Admissions for Sale 142
Unit 28 Problems with Japanese Homogeneity 148
Unit 29 Facing Ghosts from the Past 153
Unit 30 The Boy Who Chased Cars 158
Unit 31 Still Psychic Captives 163
Unit 32 The Shadow of Hiroshima 170
Unit 33 All in the Family 176
Unit 34 Living with a Family 182
Unit 35 The Picture Suddenly Gets Clearer 187
Unit 36 Program Tells on the Cheats 192
Unit 37 Can Anyone Work the Video? 198
Unit 38 On the Scent of a Better Day at Work 204
Unit 39 Pricing Cars off City Streets 209
Unit 40 Airport Detectors. Not Ready for Terrorists 214
Unit 41 How to Choose Your PhD. Supervisor 220
Unit 42 Cold Bed and Breakfast 225
Unit 43 Standing Up to Earthquakes 230
Unit 44 Heroines and Role Models 235
Unit 45 The Lightbulb That Lasts 241
Unit 46 Not Too Much of a Headache 247
Unit 48 Suing Cigarette Makers 258
Unit 49 Why is It Difficult to Put Names to Faces? 263
Unit 50 An Ambassador Abroad 268
Unit 51 Bakari's Perspective 273
Unit 52 Labor of Love 279
Unit 53 Enterprise Singapore Style 285
Unit 54 It Takes More Than Food to Cure Starvation 291
Unit 55 Where Children Come First 296
Appendix Ⅰ: Answer Key 302
Appendix Ⅱ: Chinese Translations of the Texts (for Reference Only) 305
Appendix Ⅲ. Index to New Words And Expressions in the Texts 352