THE TEXTS 1
Unit 1 A Glimpse of English 1
Unit 2 Swimming Skill 24
Unit 3 Private Space 52
Unit 4 The Reach of Imagination(adapted) 77
Unit 5 The Strange Burden of a Name(adapted) 102
Unit 6 Sources of Permanent Capital 129
Unit 7 Cocaine:The Devil Within 154
Unit 8 What is Love? 177
Unit 9 Literature,Ideology and Society 199
Unit 10 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 223
Unit 11 Fires of Destruction and Creation 251
Unit 12 When the Center Does Not Hold 274
Unit 13 Labor Market Problems 296
Unit 14 Health Care Crisis of America 319
Unit 15 Will This Jumbo Ever Fly? 343
Unit 16 Quiet Savers of the Land 368
Unit 17 The Invisible Poor 393
Unit 18 A Slow Walk of Trees 417
Unit 19 George Washington 442
Unit 20 The Eloquent Sounds of Silence 470
APPENDICES 491
Passive voices 491
A List of irregular verbs 492
Key to the exercises 496