Plan of the Book
Acknowledgement
Texts
Lesson One
Text A Your College Years
Text B Preparing for College
Lesson Two
Text A Discovery of a Father
Text B The Last Word Was Love
Lesson Three
Text A Michael Dell''s Two-Billion-Dollar Dream
Text B Would You Know a Computer If You Met One?
Lesson Four
Text A Wisdom of Bear Wood
Text B Baby Birds
Lesson Five
Text A Twelve Angry Men Part One
Text B Shot Actress -- Full Story Part I
Lesson Six
Text A Twelve Angry Men Part Two
Text B Shot Actress -- Full Story Part I
Lesson Seven
Text A The Rivals
Text B The Open Window
Lesson Eight
Text A “We''re Only Human”
Text B Button, Button
Lesson Nine
Text A A Dill Pickle
Text B The Valentine Generation
Lesson Ten
Text A Diogenes and Alexander
Text B A Horseman in the Sky
Lesson Eleven
Text A Silent Spring
Text B Of Man and the Stream of Time
Lesson Twelve
Text A The Needs that Drive Us All
Text B Maslow''s Hierarchy of Needs
Lesson Thirteen
Text A In My Day
Text B My Grandmother, the Bag Lady
Lesson Fourteen
Text A Mercy at Appomattox
Text B Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Lesson Fifteen
Text A The President as Corporate Salesman
Text B Our Leaders Don''t Know Best
Vocabulary List
Idiomatic Expressions and Collocations