Unit One……1 Text A Universities and Their Function……1 Text B The College Is for Everyone Cult……6 Unit Two……12 Text A Mother Tongue……12 Text B Doctor Talk……20 Unit Three……25 Text A The Problem of Happiness……25 Text B My Father's Life……30 Unit Four……39 Text A Remembering the Farm……39 Text B My Wood……45 Unit Five……50 Text A Speaking of Pictures……50 Text B Television: The Plugin Drug……57 Unit Six……62 Text A How Does a Poem Mean?……62 Text B Reading: From Many Rules to One Habit……72 Unit Seven……80 Text A Women……80 Text B Women's Business……88 Unit Eight……92 Text A Welcome to Cyberia……92 Text B The Relationship Between Business and Higher Education: A Perspective on the 21st Century……99 Unit Nine……108 Text A Walden……108 Text B What I Lived for……117 Unit Ten……125 Text A A Message to Intellectuals……125 Text B The Way to Wealth……130 Unit Eleven……135 Text A Thinking as a Hobby……135 Text B On My Reading, Writing, and Thinking……144 Unit Twelve……149 Text A Does Human Nature Change?……149 Text B A Reasonable Life in a Mad World……159 Unit Thirteen……166 Text A The Business of a Biographer……166 Text B An American Storyteller: Ernest Hemingway……176 Unit Fourteen……181 Text A Man Against Darkness……181 Text B The State of Funk……187 Unit Fifteen……193 Text A Fashions in Love……193 Text B The Fine Art of Marital Fighting……202 Unit Sixteen……207 Text A English Manners……207 Text B The Spirit of the Chinese People……214 Reference Key to the Exercises……222