Lesson One 1
Text A How to Become a Good Graduate Student? 1
Text B So You Are Going to Make a Speech 7
Lesson Two 13
Text A When in China,No Green Hat 13
Text B Bridging the Cultural Differences 19
Lesson Three 25
Text A Trashed Tech:Where Do Old Cell Phones,TVs and PCs Go to Die? 25
Text B Not Everyone Is Cheering as Wi-Fi Takes to the Air 31
Lesson Four 36
Text A Three Days to See(Excerpts) 36
Text B A Young Boy's Ambition 42
Lesson Five 48
Text A For All Women 48
Text B I'd Rather Be Black than Female 55
Lesson Six 61
Text A On Getting off to Sleep 61
Text B Snoring:An Unwelcome Bedfellow 67
Lesson Seven 72
Text A Advice to Youth 72
Text B Life Is the Greatest Teacher 78
Lesson Eight 82
Text A Nietzsche 82
Text B Plato 90
Lesson Nine 95
Text A The"Millennium Generation"Is Making Its Mark 95
Text B Stuck in the Middle:Caring for Two Generations at Once 102
Lesson Ten 108
Text A Getting the Most Out of Life 108
Text B Philosophy of Life 116
Lesson Eleven 120
Text A Chapter One of Jane Eyre 120
Text B The Little Match Girl 129
Lesson Twelve 134
Text A The Aims of Education 134
Text B The Education of Benjamin Franklin 141
Lesson Thirteen 146
Text A The Coolest Dad 146
Text B The Happiest Day of My Life 150
Lesson Fourteen 156
Text A Celebrating the Chinese New Year Home and Abroad 156
Text B Customs 162
Lesson Fifteen 167
Text A Little Sister of the Poor 167
Text B Disabled But Not Ruined 174
Lesson Sixteen 181
Text A Weather and Climate 181
Text B On the Move to Outrun Climate Change 187
Lesson Seventeen 194
Text A The Maya Civilization and Its Some Important Features 194
Text B The Rise of Maya Civilization 202
Lesson Eighteen 210
Text A Why We Laugh 210
Text B The Truth about Lying 215
References 221