Unit One
Text A What to Listen for in Music
Text B The Eloquent Sounds of Silence
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Two
Text A Your Speechls Changing
Text B How to Talk about the World
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Three
Text A A LoveAffairwithBooks
Text B The Lost Art of Reading
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Four
Text A ThinkingasaHobby
Text B The Art of Living Simply
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Five
Text A Once More to the Lake
Text B The Almost Perfect State
Text B Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Six
Text A Middle Age, Old Age
Text B Men Are Very Delicate
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Seven
Text A Beauty
Text B Cinderella's Stepsisters
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Eight
Text A In Praise of ldleness
Text B To Err Is Human
rfwenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Nine
Text A On National Prejudice
Text B Politics and the English Language
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Ten
Text A Daydreams of What You'd Rather Be
Text B Culture and Food Habits
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Eleven
Text A Photographs of My Parents
Text B Two Ways to Belong in America
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Twelve
Text A Three Types of Resistance to Oppression
Text B Loneliness... An American Malady
Twenty Minutes' Reading