Unit 1

Text Ⅰ Fresh Start

Text Ⅱ A University Stands and Shines

Unit 2

Text Ⅰ The Company Man

Text Ⅱ Time to Take It Easy

Unit 3

Text Ⅰ Out of Step

Text Ⅱ Skylines and Skyscrapers

Unit 4

Text Ⅰ Fun,Oh Boy.Fun.You Could Die from It

Text Ⅱ The Age of Thrills

Unit 5

Text Ⅰ The Real Truth about Lies

Text Ⅱ To Lie or Not to Lie?—The Doctor's Dilemma

Unit 6

Text Ⅰ How to Write a Rotten Poem with Almost No Effort

Text Ⅱ The Interpretation of Poetry

Unit 7

Text Ⅰ The Chaser

Text Ⅱ Young Men and Elderly Men

Unit 8

Text Ⅰ Knowledge and Wisdom

Text Ⅱ How to Become a Man of Genius

Unit 9

Text Ⅰ Chinese Food

Text Ⅱ Chinese Food in America

Unit 10

Text Ⅰ The Transaction

Text Ⅱ Some Self-Analysis

Unit 11

Text Ⅰ On Becoming a Better Student

Text Ⅱ The Art of Acknowledgement

Unit 12

Text Ⅰ “Take Over,Bos'n!”

Text Ⅱ War

Unit 13

Text Ⅰ Our Schedules,Our Selyes

Text Ⅱ The Unhappy American Way

Unit 14

Text Ⅰ Homeless

Text Ⅱ The Ideal of the Family versus the Ideal of Personal Individualism