Unit 1 2
Text Ⅰ A Class Act 2
Text Ⅱ To Build a Kingdom of Love 19
Unit 2 23
Text Ⅰ Bards of the Internet 23
Text Ⅱ Always On 43
Unit 3 49
Text Ⅰ On Reading 49
Text Ⅱ Why We Read 66
Unit 4 73
Text Ⅰ Matriculation Fixation 73
Text Ⅱ Who Needs Harvard? 93
Unit 5 101
Text Ⅰ A Few Kind Words for Superstition 101
Text Ⅱ The Fortune-Teller 122
Unit 6 128
Text Ⅰ Being There 128
Text Ⅱ Cultural Habits 147
Unit 7 153
Text Ⅰ I'd Rather Be Black Than Female 153
Text Ⅱ Are Women Prejudiced Against Women? 172
Unit 8 179
Text Ⅰ Two Truths to Live By 179
Text Ⅱ Intoxicated by My Illness 196
Unit 9 203
Text Ⅰ How to Grow Old 203
Text Ⅱ Nearing 90 220
Unit 10 226
Text Ⅰ Sweet September 226
Text Ⅱ The Heart of the Seasons 243
Unit 11 249
Text Ⅰ My Wood 249
Text Ⅱ Town Life 270
Unit 12 278
Text Ⅰ Disney World:Cities of Simulation as Postmodern Utopias 278
Text Ⅱ Las Vegas:Postmodern City of Casinos and Simulation 296
Unit 13 304
Text Ⅰ Friendship 304
Text Ⅱ American Friendship 319
Unit 14 324
Text Ⅰ Sounds 324
Text Ⅱ Where I Lived,and What I Lived For 343
Glossary 349