UNIT 1
TEXT Ⅰ The Fourth of July 1
TEXT Ⅱ Champion of the World 14
UNIT 2
TEXT Ⅰ The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl 18
TEXT Ⅱ No Name Woman 29
UNIT 3
TEXT Ⅰ A Hanging 32
TEXT Ⅱ Shooting an Elephant 44
UNIT 4
TEXT Ⅰ The Girl in the Fifth Row 48
TEXT Ⅱ Bumping into Mr.Ravioli 61
UNIT 5
TEXT Ⅰ Force of Nature 65
TEXT Ⅱ Her World on a String 78
UNIT 6
TEXT Ⅰ Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death 83
TEXT Ⅱ I Have a Dream 95
UNIT 7
TEXT Ⅰ How America Lives……10l 111
TEXT Ⅱ On the Pressures and Politics of Waiting in Line 111
UNIT 8
TEXT Ⅰ The Art of Smart Guessing 115
TEXT Ⅱ Education 124
UNIT 9
TEXT Ⅰ Pigskin English 128
TEXT Ⅱ Black English 140
UNIT 10
TEXT Ⅰ Love and Resentment 144
TEXT Ⅱ Gay 155
UNIT 11
TEXT Ⅰ Kids and Computers:Digital Danger 158
TEXT Ⅱ The World of the E-Books Is Here 168
UNIT 12
TEXT Ⅰ The New Immorality 172
TEXT Ⅱ Growing Old 182
UNIT 13
TEXT Ⅰ Beauty 186
TEXT Ⅱ A Grateful Wife Has Second Thoughts 197
UNIT 14
TEXT Ⅰ Our Lingua Franca 200
TEXT Ⅱ English and American Sportsmanship 209
UNIT 15
TEXT Ⅰ Clothes Make the Man—Uneasy 214
TEXT Ⅱ The Feminine Physique 224
UNIT 16
TEXT Ⅰ The Battle of the Ants 229
TEXT Ⅱ The Alligators o fEast Florida 241
GLOSSARY 245