Contents 1
Unit 1 1
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 1
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 6
Text A Creative Failure in College Exam 6
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 17
Text B Imagination and the Making of a Physicist 18
Unit 2 25
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 25
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 31
TextA Confessions of aLonely TA 31
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 42
Text B He Rocked,I Reeled 43
Unit 3 52
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 52
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 57
Text A The Web Is Magic but Students'Research Papers Are Not 57
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 68
Text B Two Letters Responding to David Rothenberg 69
Unit 4 76
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 76
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 81
Text A The Girl with the Rose 81
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 92
Text B The Princess and the Nun 93
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 101
Unit 5 101
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 107
Text A Predictable Crises of Adulthood 107
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 118
Text B So This Was Adolescence 119
Unit 6 127
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 127
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 132
Text A To Err Is Human 132
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 144
Text B The Advantages of Stupidity 145
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 153
Unit 7 153
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 159
Text A Noble Failures and Petty Successes 159
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 172
Text B Cultural Literacy Hypocrisy 173
Unit 8 180
Part Ⅰ Language Skill 180
Part Ⅱ Language in Context 185
Text A Premature Pragmatism on Campus 185
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language 197
Text B Preparation for Life 198
Appendix 206
Vocabulary 206