UNIT ONE PEOPLE TIES
1. Run Patti Run
2. Remembering a Friend
3. The Deliverer
UNIT TWO MORAL VALUES
4. Christmas Morning
5. Catch of a Lifetime
6. American' s Moral Values
UNIT THREE FESTIVALS
7. What Is the Fringe?
8. A Scientific Inquiry into Santa Claus
9. A History of Mother's Day
UNIT FOUR TENSION AND STRESS
10. Stress
11. Tension Headache
12. Modern Stress Pushes Some People Past Boiling Point
UNIT FIVE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
13. E-mails
14. Five Steps to Improving Communication
15. Body Talk
UNIT SIX SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
16. What Does Science and Technology Do?
17. Our Earliest Ancestors
18. What Is Multimedia?
UNIT SEVEN FINANCIAL WORLD
19. Mortgage
20. Stock
21. The World's Strangest Checks
UNIT EIGHT CULTURES AND BUSINESS
22. Individualism within the Chinese and American Cultures
23. Business Lunch and Culture
24. Cultural Echoes
Keys to Comprehension Exercises
课文参考译文
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