UNIT ONE
1.The Kindness of Strangers
2.Drowning
3.Politics: Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary
UNIT Two
4.My Way to Success
5.Why Smart People Fail
6.I Never Had It Made
UNIT THREE
7.The City
8.My Cousin, the Gambler
9.Waiting-Room
UNIT FOUR
10.Carnegie, an American Industrialist
11.Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn't Come Till 4: 30
12.The Pace of Life
TEST YOURSELF (1)
UNIT FIVE
13.The Importance of Being Interested
14.Why Graduates Won't Wear Science
15.Sold on the Super Mall
UNIT SIX
16.Mr.Know-All
17.They Created the Jet Age
18."No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache"
UNIT SEVEN
19.Family Ties
20.Improving the Quality of Life
21.The Nobel Prizes
UNIT EIGHT
22.University Days
23.Space -- 30 Years into the Future
24."A Troublesome Boy".
TEST YOURSELF (2)
APPENDICES:
1. Glossary
2. Key to Test Yourself (1) and (2)
3.Key to Comprehension of the Text
