Unit One

Text A Future Shlock by Neil Postman

Text B The Huxleyan Warning by Neil Postman

Unit Two

Text A Why People Don't Help in A Crisis？by John M.Darley＆Bibb Latané

Text B Territorial Behavior by Desmond Morris

Unit Three

Text A Death and Justice：How Capital Punishment Affirms Life by Edward I.Koch

Text B The Death Penalty by David Bruck

Unit Four

Text A The Promise by W.Somerset Maugham

Text B Theft by Katherine Anne Porter

Unit Five

Text A The Fine Art of Complaining by Caroline Rego

Text B How Urban Myths Reveal Society's Fears by Neal Gabler

Unit Six

Text A Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

Text B The Politics of Starvation by George Orwell

Unit Seven

Text A The Human Drift by Jack London

Text B Reality and Contrivance by Erving Goffman

Unit Eight

Text A New York by Gay Talese

Text B The Aspect of London by Arthur Symons

Unit Nine

Text A Mother by Sherwood Anderson

Text B A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley

Unit Ten

Text A The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe

Text B A College Vagabond by Andy Adams

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