Unit One 1
1．What Is a Great Book? 1
2．A Love Affair with Books 7
3．Body English 13
Unit Two 19
4．Avoiding the Road to Ruin 19
5．"By June I'll Be as Splky as a Needle.By Christmas I'll Be a Cushion." 24
6．A Little Bit of Butter for My Bread:Nutrition in the Future 29
Unit Three 35
7．Lying to Liars 35
8．Seeing Is Believing 41
9．A Case of Mutual Distrust 47
Unit Four 52
10．The Life of the Mind-A Tribute to Two Professors 52
11．Superiority Complex 59
12．What We Learn from Anthropology 65
Unit Five 70
13．How to Win the War on Global Warming 70
14．Move Over,Polar Bear 78
15．Going Green by Empowering Choice 83
Unit Six 87
16．A Is for Asp 87
17．Love Among the Onions 94
18．Literacy Is Everything 99
Unit Seven 105
19．Internet Wagering:A Growing Concern 105
20．Christmas Morning（Ⅰ） 113
21．Christmas Morning（Ⅱ） 120
Unit Eight 126
22．Sex,Lies and Conversation:Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? 126
23．Unplugged:The Myth of Computers in the Classroom 133
24．In Search of Einstein's Genius 138
Appendices 143
Glossary 143
Key to Comprehension Exercise I of the Texts 154