Unit 1
Section A Text Study: 1
Sir James Jeans:Out in Space 1
Contents 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Willy Ley:The Great UFO Mystery:Visitors form Outer Space or What? 6
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10
Section B Text-Based Exercises 10
Unit 11
Unit 12
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 13
Section A Text Study: 17
Stephen Leacock:Are the Rich Happy? 17
Stephen Leacock:A Nation ofMadmen 26
Section B Text-Based Exercises 28
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 31
Section A Text Study: 36
John F.Kennedy:Inaugural Address 36
Richard M.Nixon:Inaugural Address 43
Section B Text-Based Exercises 45
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 47
Section A Text Study: 53
Sharon Bernstein:Multiculturalism:Building Bridges or Burning Them 53
Polingaysi Qoyawayma:The Hopi Way 62
Section B Text-Based Exercises 65
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 68
Section A Text Study: 75
Mara Wolynski:Permissive Education 75
David S.Saxon:Overeducation 81
Section B Text-Based Exercises 84
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 87
Section A Text Study: 92
E.M.Forster:Jew-Consciousness 92
Frederick Douglass:What the Black Man Wants 98
Section B T-ext-Based Exercises 101
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 104
Katherine Mansfield:Miss Brill 110
Section A Text Study: 110
Lytton Strachey:Queen Victoria 119
Section B Text-Based Exercises 121
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 124
Section A Text Study: 129
Elinor L.Horwitz:Whatever Happened to the Neighborhood Store? 129
Roy Bedicheck:Animal Ties 134
Section B Text-Based Exercises 138
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 140
Section A Text Study: 144
George C.McGhee:The Lost Art ofConversation 144
Edna Goldsmith:Learning How to Write Is Worth the Trouble 150
Section B Text-Based Exercises 152
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 155
Paul Roberts:Colorful,Colored and Colorless Words 161
Section A Text Study: 161
Richard Rodriguez:Private Language,Public Language 166
Section B Text-Based Exercises 171
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 174
Section A Text Study: 181
William T.Buckley:How to Cope with Crisis 181
Bruce J.Friedman:Eating Alone in Restaurants 188
Section B Text-Based Exercises 192
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 194
Section A Text Study: 199
SherwoodAnderson:Discovery ofa Father 199
Susan Cheever:Portrait of My Father 208
Section B Text-Based Exercises 212
Section C Skill-Oriented Exercises 215