Unit 1 1
Text Ⅰ Fresh Start 2
Text Ⅱ A University Stands and Shines 14
Unit 2 16
Text Ⅰ The Company Man 18
Text Ⅱ Time to Take It Easy 27
Unit 3 28
Text Ⅰ Out of Step 30
Text Ⅱ Skylines and Skyscrapers 40
Unit 4 42
Text Ⅰ Fun,Oh Boy.Fun.You Could Die from It 43
Text Ⅱ The Age of Thrills 52
Unit 5 55
Text Ⅰ The Real Truth about Lies 56
Text Ⅱ To Lie or Not to Lie?—The Doctor's Dilemma 67
Unit 6 70
Text Ⅰ How to Write a Rotten Poem with Almost No Effort 73
Text Ⅱ The Interpretation of Poetry 86
Unit 7 88
Text Ⅰ The Chaser 89
Text Ⅱ Young Men and Elderly Men 99
Unit 8 102
Text Ⅰ Knowledge and Wisdom 103
Text Ⅱ How to Become a Man of Genius 117
Unit 9 119
Text Ⅰ Chinese Food 121
Text Ⅱ Chinese Food in America 131
Unit 10 133
Text Ⅰ The Transaction 135
Text Ⅱ Some Self-Analysis 148
Unit 11 150
Text Ⅰ On Becoming a Better Student 152
Text Ⅱ The Art of Acknowledgement 164
Unit 12 166
Text Ⅰ “Take Over,Bos'n!” 167
Text Ⅱ War 179
Unit 13 182
Text Ⅰ Our Schedules,Our Selyes 184
Text Ⅱ The Unhappy American Way 196
Unit 14 199
Text Ⅰ Homeless 201
Text Ⅱ The Ideal of the Family versus the Ideal of Personal Individualism 210