Unit 1
Text Ⅰ The Fourth of July / 2
Text Ⅱ Champion of the World / 19
Unit 2
Text Ⅰ The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl / 25
Text Ⅱ No Name Woman /41
Unit 3
Text Ⅰ A Hanging / 46
Text Ⅱ Shooting an Elephant/65
Unit 4
Text Ⅰ Force of Nature /70
Text Ⅱ Her World on a String /86
Unit 5
Text Ⅰ Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death /94
Text Ⅱ IHaveaDream /112
Unit 6
Text Ⅰ How America Lives/120
Text Ⅱ On the Pressures and Politics of Waiting in Line 136
Unit 7
Text I The Art of Smart Guessing / 142
Text Ⅱ Education / 158
Unit 8
Text Ⅰ Love and Resentment ]63
Text Ⅱ Gay/179
Unit 9
Text Ⅰ Kids and Computers: Digital Danger / 184
Text Ⅱ The World of E-Books Is Here /200
Unit 10
Text Ⅰ The New Immorality 205
Text Ⅱ Growing Old /220
Unit 11
Text Ⅰ Beauty / 227
Text Ⅱ A Grateful Wife Has Second Thoughts /243
Unit 12
Text Ⅰ Clothes Make the Man -- Uneasy /248
Text Ⅱ The Feminine Physique/266
Unit 13
Text Ⅰ The Battle of the Ants / 272
Text Ⅱ The Alligators of East Florida / 290
Unit 14
Text Ⅰ Are We Raising a Generation of Spoilt Brats? /297
Text Ⅱ Education Begins at Home/315
Glossary / 323
