Lesson 1 1
Text A Learn from Failure&Alice Steinbach 1
Text B Success Means Never Feeling Tired&Mortimer Adler 12
Lesson 2 17
Text A Summer beyond Wish&Russell Baker 17
Text B Christmas at Grandma s&Lois Smyth 29
Lesson 3 32
Text A Conversational Ballgames&Nancy Sakamoto 32
Text B A Different Kind of Mother&Amy Wu 44
Lesson 4 49
Text A The Lunar Effect&Margaret Loeb 49
Text B Does the Full Moon Influence Behavior?&Anonymous 62
Lesson 5 65
Text A One from Many&Anonymous 65
Text B Holidays in the United States&Anonymous 79
Lesson 6 84
Text A Television in the USA&Anonymous 84
Text B Newspaper&Danuta Reah 97
Lesson 7 101
Text A Three Categories of Knowledge&Robert Hazen 101
Text B Modeleine Albright s Commencement Address&Modeleine Albright 115
Lesson 8 122
Text A The Medium and the Message&Lewis Lerine 122
Text B How People Communicate?&Jake Allsop 135
Lesson 9 138
Text A Calling Home&Jean Brandt 138
Text B What Have You Taught Yout Child Today?&David Osborne 150
Lesson 10 155
Text A After Twenty Years&O.Henry 155
Text B The Gift of the Magi&O.Henry 167
Lesson 118 172
Text A The Myths of Science&Marcelo Gleiser 172
Text B The World As I See It&Einstein 187
Lesson 12 191
Text A Air Battle over London,1940&Henty Steele 191
Text B The War Correspondent&Harry Evans 205
Golssary 210