Contents 目录
Summary of Reading Skills and Activities 技能表
CHAPTER one 一章
Language and Leurning 语言和学习
SELECTION ONE "Native Americans," by Jamake Highwater
SELECTION TWO "Library: The Buried Treasure," by David B. Ellis
SELECTION THREE "English as a Universal Language " by Patricia Aburdene
and John Naisbitt
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Attack on English
学习指导
CHAPTER two 二章
Danger and Daring 危险和昌险
SELECTION ONE "Adventurers ofToday " by M. Prijic
SELECTION TWO "A High Dive," by L. P. Hartley
SELECTION THREE "The World We Lost " by Farley Mowat
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Courting Danger
学习指导
CHAPTER three 三章
Man and Woman
SELECTION ONE "For Better or Worse, Arranged Marriages Still Thrive in
Japan," by Urban C. Lehner
SELECTION TWO "The Sexes: Anatomy of a Difference " by Signe Hammer
SELECTION THREE "1 Want a Wife," by Judy Syfers
WHAT DO YOU THINK? How Men and Women Communicate
Mysteries Past and Present
SELECTlON ONE "Against All Odds," by Richard Blodgett
SELECTlON TWO "The Lady or the Tger?" by Frank R. Stockton
SELECTlON THREE "It All Started with Dragon Bones," by Raymond
Chang and Margaret Scrogin Chang
WHAT DO YOU THlNK? The Secret of Firewalking
学习指导
Transitions
SELECTlON ONE? "Life Cycle Planning " by Grace W. Weinstein
SELECTlON TWO "Conversations in Malaysia " by V. S. Naipaul
WHAT DO YOU THlNK? The Refugee Problem
SELECTlON THREE "Grisha Has Arrived " by Tanya Filanovsky
学习指导
CHAPTER six 六章
TheMind
SELECTlON ONE "A Memory for All Seasonings," by Stephen Singular
SELECTlON TWO "Underthe Skull " by Nigel Calder
SELECTlON THREE "The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allan Poe
WHAT DO YOU THINK? The Treatment of Mental lllness
TlMED READlNG "May's Boy " by Maja Penikis
学习指导
CHApTER seven 七章
WorKing
SELECTlON ONE "Why Ethics?" by Robert C. Solomon and Kristine
Hanson
SELECTlON TWO "A Lifetime of Learning to Manage Effectively " by
Ralph Z. Sorenson
SELECTION THREE "Barriers Fall for Women at Work," by Lisa Genasci
TIMED READING "The Worse Recruiters Have Seen " from The Wall Street
Journal
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Home Offices
学习指导
CHAPTER eiaht 第八章
Breakthroughs
SELECTION ONE "DIA's Best Feature " by Christopher Broderick
SELECTION TWO "Sowing the Seeds of Super Plants," by Sana Siwolop
SELECTION THREE "Science Is Dandy, But Promotion Can Be Lucrative " by
Stephen P. Maran
TIMED READING "Are Computers Alive?" by Geoff Simons
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Advances in Communication
CHAPTER nine 九章
Art and Entertainment
SELECTION ONE "The Man Who Was an Orchestra," by Nat Hentoff
SELECTION TWO "To Paint Is to Live': Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986 '
by M. Prijic
SELECTION THREE "Chicano Poetry: The Voice of a Culture " by Deana
Fernandez
TIMED READING "JackieCan!' by Richard Corliss
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Body Decoration
CHAPTER ten 第十章
Ethical Questions
SELECTION ONE "Doctor's Dilemma: Treat or Let Die?" by Abigail Trafford
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Choosing the Sex ofa Child
SELECTION TWO "Older Generation in Borneo Fighting to Retain Values
of Its Native Culture," from The Rocky Mountain News
SELECTION THREE "You Be the Judge " by John A. Ritter
TIMED READING "Extinction " by Paul and Anne Ehrlich
Contents
SELECTION ONE "Best of Both Worlds," by Barbara Gullahorn-Holecek
SELECTION TWO "The Scientist-Philosophers," by Desmond Stewart
SELECTION THREE "Parents Brave Medicine's New World " by Nancy
Ross-Flanigan
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Organ Transplants
TIMED READING "Education Doesn't Happen Only in Schools " by Jeffrey
Zaslow
学习指导
CHAPTER tweleve 第十二章
The Future
SELECTION ONE "The Kremani Prophecies," by Milos and Mitar Tarabic
SELECTION TWO "Omni Future Almanac," edited by Robert Weil
SELECTION THREE "Men Are Different" by Alan Bloch
TIMED READING "The Affectionate Machine " by Neil Frude
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Back from the Future