UNIT ONE 1
1．Goodbye School 1
2．The Saturday Evening Post 9
3．Love Thy Neighbor 17
UNIT TWO 21
4．Making Friends in American Culture 21
5．My Daughter,My Friend 29
6．Hope in a Bottle 36
UNIT THREE 42
7．The Fun They Had 42
8．Today's Technology Could Seem Goofy Tomorrow 51
9．A Short Biography of the Long Life of Benjamin Franklin 56
UNIT FOUR 64
10．Are You Trying Real Hard? 64
11．Jim Lovell:An Astronaut's Story 73
12．Only Daughter 78
UNIT FIVE 84
13．My Only True Love 84
14．The Dragon Rock 93
15．Does Sleep Help You Study? 99
UNIT SIX 104
16．Leaving the Land of the Blind 104
17．The Christmas Truce 113
18．An American Educator's Fable 120
UNIT SEVEN 125
19．The Titanic 125
20．A Lamp in a Window 132
21．Stock and Gown 138
UNIT EIGHT 142
22．Students Who Push Burgers 142
23．A Small Miracle 149
24．You Can Have Anything You Want,But You Can't Have Everything You Want 154
APPENDICES 159
1．Glossary 159
2．Key to Comprehension Exercise Ⅰ of the Texts 178