Unit One 1
Text A：Once More to the Lake 1
Contents 1
Text B：The Lost Childhood 8
Text C：A Last Visit from Aldous 14
Unit Two 23
Text A：Notes of a Native Son 23
Text B：Salvation 28
Text C：The Library Card 32
Text A：38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police 42
Unit Three 42
Text B：The Story of an Eyewitness 47
Text C：The Assassination 54
Unit Four 67
Text A：A P 67
Text B：The Snob 75
Text C：My Puritan Conscience 81
Unit Five 90
Text A：New York 90
Text B：Farewell,My Unlovely 98
Text C：Loving and Hating New York 103
Unit Six 111
Text A：The Death of the Moth 111
Text B：Death of a Moth 115
Text C：One Small Life 120
Unit Seven 127
Text A：A Conversation with a Cat 127
Text B：A Friend of Mine 134
Text C：Snapshot of a Dog 137
Text A：The Musicians 145
Unit Eight 145
Advanced English Reading: Modem Prose 150
Text B：Flowery Tuscany 150
Text C：The Blue Nile 155
Unit Nine 163
Text A：What Life Means to Me 163
Text B：The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American 171
Text C：What Is It Like to Be Poor？ 177
Unit Ten 184
Text A：My Wood 184
Text B：What's Bugging the Students 189
Text C：An Observation and an Explanation 196
Unit Eleven 203
Text A：Apology to the Future 203
Text B：The Marks of an Educated Man 209
Text C：Mental Depression：The Recurring Nightmare 217
Unit Twelve 223
Text A：Thinking of Words 223
Text B：The Untrodden Ways 227
Text C：The Hall-Marks of American 234
Text A：Philosophers among the Carrot 244
Unit Thirteen 244
Text B：Three-Dimensional Youth 248
Text C：Individuals and Masses 257
Unit Fourteen 264
Text A：Delights of the Edge 264
Text B：Wakefield 270
Text C：What Makes Waves 279
Unit Fifteen 285
Text A：The Art of Living Simply 285
Text B：Discovering the Self 290
Text C：How to Avoid Foolish Opinions 295
Unit Sixteen 302
Text A：Delight 302
Text B：Writing 308
Text C：Symptoms 314
Unit Seventeen 320
Text A：Adapting Literature for the Screen 320
Text B：Keeping Upset with the Joneses 326
Text C：The Declaration of Independence 334
Text A：The Efficacy of Prayer 342
Unit Eighteen 342
Text B：Home Is Where to Learn How to Hate 348
Text C：Inaugural Address 354
Unit Nineteen 361
Text A：On Doors 361
Text B：The Door 365
Text C：In Praise of the Humble Comma 370
Unit Twenty 379
Text A：An Enghshman Discovers India 379
Text B：Nine Years for A and B 386
Text C：Waste Lands 390