Unit Ⅰ Education and Language Learning 1
1．The Equality of Educational Opportunity 1
2．Is Our Education System Inadequate? 5
3．Factors Contributing to Inventions in America 10
4．Exchange Students 14
5．Children's Language Development 19
6．Pronunciation Achievement Factors 23
7．Reading Takes Practice 28
8．How to Give a Good Speech 32
Unit Ⅱ Around the World 37
1．The American National Parks 37
2．The Persian Gulf 41
3．The British Seaside 45
4．A Typical Englishman 49
5．Bullfighting 53
6．Spanish Music and Dancing 57
7．Marriage Advertising in India's Sunday Newspapers 62
8．Islamic Customs Limit Kuwaiti Women 66
Unit Ⅲ Computer 70
1．Information Age 70
2．The Computer in a Cashless Society 74
3．The Computer in Executing the Law 78
4．Internet:Its History and Its Use 82
5．It Takes Some Online Preparations to Surf the Beach 87
6．Multimedia Language-Learning CD ROMs 93
7．When Is Your Child Ready? 98
8．America Online 106
Unit Ⅳ Psychology 112
1．Personal Growth 112
2．Money Spending Habits 116
3．Memory and Old People 120
4．Are These Best Years of Your Life? 124
5．Ideas and Actions 130
6．Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 134
7．They Have Ways of Making You Spend 140
8．An Observation and an Explanation 144
Unit Ⅴ Sociology 149
1．Individuals and Masses 149
2．Please,Metro:Make the Trains Run on Time 154
3．Doing Something About City Problems 158
4．Crimes Caused by Imitation 164
5．What Factors Start Smoking? 168
6．Blacks in American Military Actions 172
7．What About the Victims? 176
8．A Systems Analysis of a Family in Therapy 181
Unit Ⅵ Sociology and Others 185
1．The Structure of Society and Human Relationships 185
2．Marriage Encounter Weekend 190
3．Marriage and Its Definition 194
4．Democracy in the Family 198
5．From the Other Side of the Generation Gap 202
6．Modern Arts in Europe and America 208
7．Movie Review 212
8．Mark's Dilemma 216
Unit Ⅶ Science and Technology 221
1．Applied Research or Basic Research 221
2．Looking Back to the Future 226
3．The Cause of the El Nino Phenomenon 230
4．The Cause of Lightning 233
5．Widespread Attack by Alien Species 237
6．Whether Life Exists on Other Planets? 241
7．Creativity Fuels Scientific Discoveries 245
8．Clones:Will There Be"Carbon Copy"People? 250
Unit Ⅷ Economics and Business 257
1．The Debate on Economic Growth 257
2．The Private-Enterprise Economy 261
3．Rudy to New York:"We Will End Welfare" 265
4．Bank 270
5．Europe's Common Market—a Dream Unrealized 274
6．The Advertising Standard Authority:an Advertising Watchdog 278
7．Pepsi Has the Juice 283
8．Capital and Labor 288
Unit Ⅸ Physical Fitness 292
1．The Energy Cycle of Humans 292
2．What You Don't Know About Exercise 296
3．Some Myths About Physical Fitness 301
4．The Mystery of Sleep 306
5．In Search of a Cure for Cancer 311
6．Learning the Difference Between Play and Sport 315
7．The Hard Way to Lose Weight 321
8．Football Violence 325
Unit Ⅹ Miscellaneous 329
1．Radio Address of the President to the Nation 329
2．American Peace Corps 334
3．Cosmic Calendar 340
4．Artificial Intelligence 344
5．The Drama of Lightning and Thunderstorm 349
6．The Crime of the Month 353
7．Who Will Host This Year's Emmy?Nobody! 357
8．Just Listen 361
Answer Key 365