Acknowledgements Abbreviations Pronunciation Table Unit 1 Text A Thinking as a Hobby Text B The Pleasures of Learning Unit 2 Text A Spring Sowing Text B The Earth Poet Unit 3 Text A Groundless Beliefs Text B Corn-pone Opinions Unit 4 Text A Lions and Tigers and Bears Text B Two Cities Unit 5 Text A For Want of a Drink Text B Could You Live with Less? Unit 6 Text A The Telephone Text B The Hour of Letdown Unit 7 Inter-Lesson (Ⅰ) Unit 8 Text A Economic Growth Is a Path to Perdition, Not Prosperity Text B All This Progress Is Killing Us, Bite by Bite Unit 9 Text A The Damned Human Race Text B A String of Beads Unit 10 Text A The World House Text B None of This Is Fair Unit 11 Text A Soldier's Heart Text B Secrets Unit 12 Text A Onwards and Upwards Text B The Rivals Unit 13 Text A Cord Text B My Daughter Smokes Unit 14 Inter-Lesson (Ⅱ) Unit 15 Text A A Letter to American Jews (and Other Friends of Israel) Text B The Never-Ending Fight Unit 16 Text A Man of the Moment Text B Is Everybody Happy? Glossary