CONTENTS

UNIT ONE

1 How to Write a Personal Letter

2 Courtesy：Key to a Happier World

3 Sunday in the Park

UNIT TWO

4 Ambition

5 Human Intelligence Isn't What We Think It Is

6 Kratylus Automates His Urnworks

UNIT THREE

7 Father and Son

8 A Clean,Well-Lighted Place

9 Robert Frost's Favorite Poem

UNIT FOUR

10 Workplace Trends for the 21 st Century

11 Second Thoughts on the Information Highway

12 Remote Control Surgery

UNIT FIVE

13 How It Feels to Be Out of Work

14 Daddy Tucked the Blanket

15 Moon on a Silver Spoon

UNIT SIX

16 Time to Plan Your Life

17 Women in Education

18 The Winner Instinct

UNIT SEVEN

19 Literally

20 Coming to an Awareness of Language

21 Boring from Within:the Art of the Freshman Essay

UNIT EIGHT

22 Fighting Fire with Fire

23 The Sadness of the Hunter

24 No Smoking