Unit 1 Education

Lead-in

Text A The Application of Science to Education

Exercises

Text B The Uses of Education

Exercises

Unit 2 Childhood Experience

Lead-in

Text A Mother Tongue

Exercises

Text B The Night the Ghost Got In

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Unit 3 Bygone Days

Lead-in

Text A The Boys'Ambition

Exercises

Text B The Notorious Jumping Frog Calaveras County

Exercises

Unit 4 Travelogue

Lead-in

Text A Provence in January

Exercises

Text B Main Street

Exercises

Unit 5 Cultural Adaptation

Lead-in

Text A The Case Against Summer Vacation

Exercises

Text B Time for a Sea Change

Exercises

Unit 6 Racial Issue

Lead-in

Text A The World House

Exercises

Text B The Bench

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Unit 7 Space and Universe

Lead-in

Text A Our Destiny in Space

Exercises

Text B Is There Other Intelligent Life in the Universe？

Exercises

Unit 8 Speech

Lead-in

Text A The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself

Exercises

Text B The Deadliest of the Sins

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Unit 9 History

Lead-in

Text A The Mediaeval World

Exercises

Text B The Renaissance

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Unit 10 Animal

Lead-in

Text A The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees

Exercises

Text B Don't Raise Chimps as Pets

Exercises

Unit 11 Vegetation

Lead-in

Text A The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation

Exercises

Text B The Worship of the Oak

Exercises

Unit 12 Short Stories

Lead-in

Text A One Dollar's Worth

Exercises

Text B A Dollar on the Conscience

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Unit 13 Gothic Tales

Lead-in

Text A The Giant Wistaria

Exercises

Text B The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

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Unit 14 Cars and Energy

Lead-in

Text A Cars and Culture

Exercises

Text B The Post-Alcohol World

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Unit 15 Sports

Lead-in

Text A Sports and Literature

Exercises

Text B Sex Equality in Sports

Exercises

Vocabulary

Bibliography