Unit 1 Modern Marriage in America 1
Text A Is There Hope for the American Marriage? 1
Text B Who Needs Marriage?A Changing Institution 9
Supplementary Exercises 16
Unit 2 Education for Better Survival 20
Text A How to Raise a Global Kid 20
Text B Colleges Now Offering Education in Disaster 28
Supplementary Exercises 35
Unit 3 Technology for Better Life? 39
Text A Your Brain on Tech:How Being Connected 24/7 Affects Us 39
Text B Steve Jobs 47
Supplementary Exercises 55
Unit 4 No Tree has Ever Grown to 58
Text A Lehman's Fall:The What-Ifs Linger 58
Text B She'll be right 66
Supplementary Exercises 73
Unit 5 Acceptance of Plastic Surgery and HIV Tattoos 77
Text A A'Necessary Vanity'（excerpted） 77
Text B Tattoos:A journey of HIV acceptance 86
Supplementary Exercises 93
Unit 6 Unlocking the Secrets 96
Text A The Union's Spy Game Undermined America 96
Text B Presidential Debates 104
Supplementary Exercises 111
Unit 7 Empathy vs Fidelity:What Shall We Look for? 114
Text A Here we go again 114
Text B Here is thy sting 122
Supplementary Exercises 129
Unit 8 Gender Troubles 133
Text A Gender stereotypes easing more for girls than boys 133
Text B The End of Men（excerpted） 141
Supplementary Exercises 149
Key 152
Reference 161