Unit 1 1
Passage One College Lectures:Is Anybody Listening? 1
Passage Two The First Postage Stamp 7
Passage Three Your Future in Space 12
Speed Reading 16
Unit 2 22
Passage One Letter to John Wood 22
Passage Two Of Beauty 28
Passage Three The Woods and the Pacific 31
Speed Reading 37
Unit 3 39
Passage One Animal Education 39
Passage Two Water in Industry 47
Speed Reading 55
Unit 4 58
Passage One An Attack on the Family 58
Passage Two Chinese Americans 62
Passage Three Whitman:America's First Urban Poet 68
Speed Reading 72
Unit 5 75
Passage One Superstitious?Here's Why! 75
Passage Two The Beginning of the Healing Art 80
Passage Three Simple Secrets of Family Communication 87
Speed Reading 93
Unit 6 97
Passage One The Telephone and Its Inventor 97
Passage Two Two Loaves of Bread 102
Passage Three How I Served My Apprenticeship 108
Speed Reading 113
Unit 7 116
Passage One A Kind of Sermon 116
Passage Two If It Comes Back 121
Speed Reading 128
Unit 8 136
Passage One Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning 136
Passage Two How to Saw a Woman in Half-and"Mend"Her gain 143
Passage Three Sleep is Better Than Cramming on Eve of Exams 146
Speed Reading 151
Unit 9 155
Passage One About Heroes 155
Passage Two The Fifth Freedom 162
Speed Reading 170
Unit 10 177
Passage One Women,Men ＆ Money 177
Passage Two Depression and How to Beat It 185
Speed Reading 191
Unit 11 198
Passage One I Have a Dream 198
Passage Two An Essay on War 206
Speed Reading 214
Unit 12 219
Passage One Domestic Violence 219
Passage Two The Theory of Love 224
Passage Three Fighting the War a gainst EDP Crime 232
Speed Reading 238
Unit 13 240
Passage One Biographies Bring New Companions 240
Passage Two The Urge to Create 247
Speed Reading 254
Unit 14 258
Passage One Alphabetism 258
Passage Two Put an End to Biomedical Research? 263
Passage Three Could Economic Decline Be about to Return? 270
Speed Reading 275
Unit 15 278
Passage One The Wizard of Menlo Park 278
Passage Two Vacations 286
Speed Reading 293
Unit 16 297
Passage One Entropy 297
Passage Two Rats and Men 304
Speed Reading 312