Unit One 1
1.Goodbye School 1
2.The Saturday Evening Post 7
3.Love Thy Neighbor 13
Unit Two 17
4.Making Friends in American Cultu re 17
5.My Daughter,My Friend 24
6.Hope in a Bottle 29
Unit Three 34
7.The Fun They Had 34
8.Today's Technology Could Seem Goofy Tomorrow 42
9.A Short Biography of the Long Life of Benjamin Franklin 47
Unit Four 54
10.Are You Trying Real Hard? 54
11.Jim Lovell:An Astronaut's Story 62
12.Only Daughter 66
Unit Five 71
13.Take This Job and Love it 71
14.A Lamp in a Window 78
15.Stock and Gown 83
Unit Six 86
16.My Only True Love 86
17.The Dragon Rock 92
18.Does Sleep Help You Study? 96
Unit Seven 100
19.Leaving the Land of the Blind 100
20.The Christmas Truce 107
21.An American Educator's Fable 112
Unit Eight 116
22.Students Who Push Burgers 116
23.A Small Miracle 122
24.You Can Have Anything You Want,But You Can't Have Everything You Want 126
Appendix 130
Glossary 130