Unit 1 Nature
Passage 1 Surviving a Tsunami--Lessons from Chile,Hawaii,and Japan
Passage 2 The 1960 Tsunami and the Earthquake in Chile ThatCaused It
Passage 3 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake
Unit 2 Pursuit of Knowledge and Wisdom
Passage 1 A Note on Reading
Passage 2 Books
Passage 3 The Joys of Writing
Unit 3 Education
Passage 1 How Coleges Are Failing Our Students
Passage 2 The Ivory Tower Obscurity Fetish
Passage 3 How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?
Unit 4 Employment
Passage 1 Four Minutes That Get You Hired
Passage 2 Academy for Amahs
Passage 3 The Most Frequent Fliers
Unit 5 Women's Problems
Passage 1 Woman and Superwoman
Passage 2 In Pursuit of Thinness
Passage 3 Eveline
Unit 6 Life Experiences
Passage 1 How to Grow OId
Passage 2 Welcome to My Day
Passage 3 Joseph Pulitzer Dies Suddenly
Unit 7 People in History
Passage 1 The Secret Life of a Very Private Poet
Passage 2 Memories of My Early Childhood with Willie Nelson
Passage 3 The Crusades
Unit 8 Digital Technology
Passage 1 Textuality in Cyberspace:MUDS and Written Experience
Passage 2 The ABC’S of MP3:A Crash Course in the Digital Music Phenomenon
Passage 3 The Economy of Ideas:A Framework for Patents and Copyrights in the Digital Age
Unit 9 Environment and People
Passage 1 Environment:111e Good News
Passage 2 Three Revolutions in Human Populations
Passage 3 The Culture of Nature
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Unit 10 Human Ethics
Unit 11 Values of Thinking
Unit 12 Science and Technology
Unit 13 Socitety
Unit 14 Psychology
Unit 15 Human Relations—Generation Gap,Love,Marriage and Family
Key to Exercises