Unit One Fame/1
Part One Infatuation with Fame/2
Part Two Fame: We All Want It/7
Part Three Flash Fame/11
Part Four A Hero/15
Part Five The Culture of Chinese Family Name/16
Unit Two Successful People/18
Part One In Search of the Real Bill Gates/19
Part Two Queen Elizabeth II: Life as Queen/22
Part Three What Successful People Have in Common/26
Part Four Princess Diana's Call for a Ban on Landmines/28
Part Five Poem Appreciation/30
Unit Three The Disability/32
Part One Doug Heir/33
Part Two The Battle for Care that's Pulling Families Apart/38
Part Three Campaigns/42
Part Four Welfare Reform/46
Part Five Three Days to See/47
Unit Four Information Age/51
Part One Information Age/52
Part Two Using the Information Age to Gain an Advantage/56
Part Three Vital Skills that You Need in This Information Age/59
Part Four What We Should Learn about Computer/62
Part Five What Is 3G Mobile Phone?/63
Unit Five Interpersonal Relationships/66
Part One Friends, Good Friends——and Such Good Friends/67
Part Two How to Be Popular and Build Yourself a Ready Network of Friends for Life！/70
Part Three How and Why to Find New Friends/75
Part Four What We Can Get from So Support/79
Part Five Gifts in Chinese Culture/80
Unit Six So Problems/83
Part One Honesty in Business/84
Part Two Academic Corruption/88
Part Three Doing Business in Asia/92
Part Four Office Politics/95
Part Five The Translations of Some Chinese Idioms/96
Unit Seven Nature/Nurture/98
Part One Cheaper by the Dozen/99
Part Two Nature & Nurture/104
Part Three How Parents Can Support Gifted Children/108
Part Four Asian Americans/112
Part Five Two Ancient Chinese Stories about Education/114
Unit Eight Where to, Women?/117
Part One Gender Discrimination in the Workplace in the US/118
Part Two Super Morns Return to the Workplace/123
Part Three Traits of Women Entrepreneurs/126
Part Four Michelle Obama's Mission/129
Part Five Women in the Ancient Chinese Culture/131
Unit Nine Having Fun/134
Part One The Disney Park, Children' s Paradise/135
Part Two The Child's Right to Play/141
Part Three Helicopter Morns vs. Free-Range Kids/146
Part Four Toys/149
Part Five Hong Kong Disneyland/150
Unit Ten EQ/153
Part One How High Is Your EQ?/154
Part Two Never Too Old to Live Your Dream/158
Part Three Six Secrets of High-Energy People/162
Part Four The Meaning of Happiness/165
Part Five What Is the Difference between EQ and IQ/166
Key/169
摘要
1 As you know, we're now well and truly in the Information Age. It began about 10 years ago. In fact, many economists say it began in 1989, with the Fall of the Berlin Wall (and the start of the World Wide Web).
2 To understand who will become wealthy in the Information Age, first we need to understand how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age (born about 1860, died about 1989).
3 In fact, let's get a complete overview and go back to the Agrarian Age.
4 In the Agrarian Age, society was basically divided into two classes, the landowners and the people who worked on the land (the serfs). If you were a serf, there wasn't much you could do about it. land-ownership passed down through families and you were stuck with the status you were born into.
5 When the Industrial Age arrived, everything changed, it was no longer agriculture that generated most of the wealth, but manufacturing. Suddenly, land was no longer the key to wealth. A factory occupied far less land than a sheep farm or a wheat farm.
6 With the Industrial Age came a new kind of wealthy person, the self-made businessman. Wealth no longer depended on land-ownership and the family you were born into. Business acumen and factories were creating a new class of wealthy person. But it still required enormous capital to build a factory and start a business.
7 Then came the World Wide Web (in about 1989) and globalization. Suddenly, everything changed again. Factories (or real estate) were no longer necessary to run a business. Anyone with a website could start a business. The barriers to wealth that existed in the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age were completely gone. People who could never have dreamed of owning their own business were making millions from their kitchen table. ……
