Unit 1 College Nomads 1
Text A Lost,Alone and Not a Freshman 2
Text B College,My Way 11
Unit 2 Robots,Our Facilitators? 17
Text A Roomba's Revenge 18
Text B Such a Comfort to Grandma 25
Unit 3 Poverty amid Affluence 31
Text A A New Kind of Poverty 32
Text B The Afflictions of Affluence 42
Unit 4 Net Generation 47
Text A The Generation Lap 48
Text B N-Gen as Consumers 57
Unit 5 Advice Never Too Late 61
Text A The Graduation Advice I Never Got... 62
Text B Advice to Youth 69
Unit 6 Honesty—Out of Date? 75
Text A Cheating:"But Everybody's Doing It" 76
Text B Cheating as Culture:Insights for Foreign Teachers 85
Review Test Ⅰ 89
Unit 7 Be Happy 99
Text A Is Everybody Happy? 100
Text B Happiness Is a Domestic Bird 109
Unit 8 Mars and Venus 113
Text A Death of the Male 114
Text B What if Martians Gave Job Interviews? 124
Unit 9 Passage to Understanding 129
Text A Rides of Passage 130
Text B Dad,We Need to Talk 138
Unit 10 Melting Pot or Cultural Mosaic 145
Text A Melting Pot 146
Text B Multiculturalism in Canada 157
Unit 11 Trap or Treat? 163
Text A The New Parent Trap 164
Text B My Life as a Wife 175
Unit 12 Mystery of the Brain 183
Text A Notice Your Pictures and Let Them Go 184
Text B Secrets of the Brain:The Mystery of Memory 192
Review Test Ⅱ 197