Unit 1 1
Text A-1 Welcome Leter for New First-Year Students 1
Text A-2 Student Opinion 4
Text B-1 A Day in the Life of Jane Wesley 7
Text B-2 Tips for First-Year Students 9
Unit 2 13
Text A-1 Making Friends 13
Text A-2 Black and White 16
Text B-1 Friends 19
Text B-2 Friendship 21
Unit 3 25
Text A-1 Stephen Hawking 25
Text A-2 Can Computers Replace People? 28
Text B-1 The Scientific Method(1) 31
Text B-2 The Scientific Method(2) 34
Unit 4 39
Text A-1 A Country of Immigrants 39
Text A-2 Andrew Carnegie 42
Text B-1 The Automobile in American Life 46
Text B-2 I.M.Pei 49
Unit 5 53
Text A-1 The Waitress 53
Text A-2 My First Job 56
Text B-1 Jump 58
Text B-2 The Death Car 61
Unit 6 65
Text A-1 Cycling for Air—With Love 65
Text A-2 Internet Love Can Work 67
Text B-1 The Woman of His Dreams 71
Text B-2 Earty Autumn 74
Unit 7 77
Text A-1 Alex,the Talking Parrot 77
Text A-2 Do Animals Think? 79
Text B-1 Natural and Applied Science 83
Text B-2 The Link Between Pure and Applied Science 86
Unit 8 89
Text A-1 Adult Education in the U.S 89
Text A-2 Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's 91
Text B-1 Continuing Education Classes 94
Text B-2 Biological Clocks 98
Appendix 101
Key to Comprehension Exercises 101