Unit One

Text A How I Got Smart

Text B Coming of Age

Text C A Painful Decision

Unit Two

Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat？

Text B Unjust Desserts

Text C Will You Go Out with Me？

Unit Three

Text A The Sense of Wonder

Text B The Innocent Eye

Text C If I Were 21

Unit Four

Text A College Pressures

Text B College Lectures：Is Anybody Listening？

Text C What Is College for？

Unit Five

Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.：America Seen with European Eyes

Text B American Values and Assumptions

Text C A Foreign Anthropologist's Observation of Americans

Unit Six

Text A Every 23 Minutes

Text B Needed：A License to Drink

Text C Tobacco：An Evil Weed

Unit Seven

Text A So What's So Bad About Being So-So？

Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness

Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job

Unit Eight

Text A Space Politics

Text B Message to the Unknown

Text C Your Future in Space

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