Unit One 1
Text A Universities and Their Function 1
Text B The College Is for Everyone Cult 6
Unit Two 12
Text A Mother Tongue 12
Text B Doctor Talk 20
Unit Three 25
Text A The Problem of Happiness 25
Text B My Father's Life 30
Unit Four 39
Text A Remembering the Farm 39
Text B My Wood 45
Unit Five 50
Text A Speaking of Pictures 50
Text B Television：The Plug-in Drug 57
Unit Six 62
Text A How Does a Poem Mean? 62
Text B Reading：From Many Rules to One Habit 72
Unit Seven 80
Text A Women 80
Text B Women's Business 88
Unit Eight 92
Text A Welcome to Cyberia 92
Text B The Relationship Between Business and Higher Education：A Perspective on the 21st Century 99
Unit Nine 108
Text A Walden 108
Text B What I Lived for 117
Unit Ten 125
Text A A Message to Intellectuals 125
Text B The Way to Wealth 130
Unit Eleven 135
Text A Thinking as a Hobby 135
Text B On My Reading,Writing,and Thinking 144
Unit Twelve 149
Text A Does Human Nature Change? 149
Text B A Reasonable Life in a Mad World 159
Unit Thirteen 166
Text A The Business of a Biographer 166
Text B An American Storyteller：Ernest Hemingway 176
Unit Fourteen 181
Text A Man Against Darkness 181
Text B The State of Funk 187
Unit Fifteen 193
Text A Fashions in Love 193
Text B The Fine Art of Marital Fighting 202
Unit Sixteen 207
Text A English Manners 207
Text B The Spirit of the Chinese People 214
Reference Key to the Exercises 222