Unit One

Text A Universities and Their Function

Text B The College Is for Everyone Cult

Unit Two

Text A Mother Tongue

Text B Doctor Talk

Unit Three

Text A The Problem of Happiness

Text B My Father's Life

Unit Four

Text A Remembering the Farm

Text B My Wood

Unit Five

Text A Speaking of Pictures

Text B Television:The Plug-in Drug

Unit Six

Text A How Does a Poem Mean?

Text B Reading:From Many Rules to One Habit

Unit Seven

Text A Women

Text B Women's Business

Unit Eight

Text A Welcome to Cyberia

Text B The Relationship Between Business and Higher Education:A Perspective on the 21st Century

Unit Nine

Text A Walden

Text B What I Lived for

Unit Ten

Text A A Message to Intellectuals

Text B The Way to Wealth

Unit Eleven

Text A Thinking as a Hobby

Text B On My Reading,Writing,and Thinking

Unit Twelve

Text A Does Human Nature Change?

Text B A Reasonable Life in a Mad World

Unit Thirteen

Text A The Business of a Biographer

Text B An American Storyteller:Ernest Hemingway

Unit Fourteen

Text A Man Against Darkness

Text B The State of Funk

Unit Fifteen

Text A Fashions in Love

Text B The Fine Art of Marital Fighting

Unit Sixteen

Text A English Manners

Text B The Spirit of the Chinese People

Reference Key to the Exercises