Chapter 1 Geograph y and Culture 1
Unit 1 Maldives 1
Unit 2 Shaking All Over 18
Unit 3 Nature's Champion 28
Supplementary Reading 42
Chapter 2 Science and Technology 54
Unit 4 To Build a Baby 54
Unit 5 The Rise of the Green Building 65
Unit 6 Why We Strive for Status 78
Unit 7 Wearing Wires 91
Supplementary Reading 103
Chapter 3 People and Society 114
Unit 8 Organized Crime 114
Unit 9 College Pressures 126
Unit 10 Albert Einstein 145
Unit 11 The Foundation of Personality 158
Supplementary Reading 171
Chapter 4 Speeches 185
Unit 12 Martin Luther King's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 185
Unit 13 Shall We Choose Death 198
Unit 14 To Unite with One Heart and One Mind 209
Supplementary Reading 223
Chapter 5 Literary Works 240
Unit 15 David Copperfield 240
Unit 16 A Dark Brown Dog 257
Unit 17 On Work 272
Supplementary Reading 283
Keys to the Exercises 299
Vocabulary 320