1.The First Four Minutes 1
2.College Students Today 9
3.Personal Aims and Values 15
4.Questions and Answers about Smoking 19
5.Who Smokes? 23
6.A Letter from an Editor 28
7.Scenes from a Life,Part Ⅰ 33
8.Scenes from a Life,Part Ⅱ 38
9.Scenes from a Life.Part Ⅲ 43
10.At the Bus Station 48
11.A Victory in the News 54
12.How Do You Make Hamburgers? 59
13.The Life Style of a Rock Star 64
14.Introducing Myself 70
15.How New York Became America's Largest City 74
16.The Power of Names 81
17.How Do People Feel about Their Jobs? 86
18.A Family Conversation 90
19.Getting Action 95
20.The Newspaper as a"Go-between" 99
21.Teeth 104
22.Sesame Street 109
23.Travel Troubles 114
24.Lessons from Overseas 119
25.Wings,Part Ⅰ 123
26.Wings,Part Ⅱ 127
27.Wings,Part Ⅲ 132
28.Wings,Part Ⅳ 136
29.What Does an Economist Do? 141
30.It's a Small World 145
APPENDIX 1 150
APPENDIX 2 159
Suggestions to the Teacher 185