Unit 1 1
Text A You Are My Dictionary 1
Text B Quintana 13
Unit 2 19
Text A Friendship in an Age of Economics 19
Text B Friendship:The Laws of Attraction 29
Unit 3 36
Text A A Wife Gives Her Husband the Gift of Life 36
Text B Boy on a Bike 48
Unit 4 52
Text A An Unassuming Billionaire:Warren Buffett 52
Text B Steve Jobs:You've Got to Find What You Love 64
Unit 5 69
Text A The Deer and the Nursing Home 69
Text B The Summer of Raccoons 80
Unit 6 87
Text A Reconstructing the Taj and Tourism 87
Text B Oxford Revisited 99
Unit 7 103
Text A Why We Strive for Status 103
Text B The Cult of Busyness 112
Unit 8 116
Text A Mother Tongue 116
Text B Everything Had a Name 127
Unit 9 132
Text A Grains of Hope 132
Text B Genetically Modified Food:Are They Safe? 145
Unit 10 153
Text A 8 Ways the Internet Has Changed the World 153
Text B Does the Internet Make You Smarter? 167
Unit 11 173
Text A Changing Conceptions of the American Dream 173
Text B My Mother's Words of Wisdom 188
Unit 12 192
Text A The Story of an Hour 192
Text B A Telephone Call 201
Phrase List 207
Vocabulary List 212