Contents
Unit 1 Education
Text 1Immortal Words
Text 2The Functions of Education: The Functionalist View
Text 3Not Just Child’s Play
Text 4Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well
Text 5The Memory Palace
Unit 2 Culture
Text 1I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Goth
Text 2The Purposes of Art
Text 3Third Culture Kids
Text 4Finding Balance in Food
Text 5Hip-Hop Planet
Unit 3 Literature
Text 1Private Lives
Text 2Education for Life
Text 3Shades of Dreaming
Text 4The Perfect Peppersoup
Text 5The Glorious Whitewasher
Unit 4 Literary Criticism
Text 1Jane Austen and Women’s Emancipation
Text 2Storytelling Is as Old as Mankind
Unit 5 Animals
Text 1Harp Seals on Thin Ice After 32 Years of Warming
Text 2Thanking the Birds
Text 3The Nature of Intelligence
Unit 6 Society
Text 1Can Couples Afford to Get Married Anymore?
Text 2How to Make a Strong First Impression
Text 3Unusual Places to Stay
Text 4Room with a View
Text 5Success Across Generations
Text 6Teenagers Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Unit 7 Science and Technology
Text 1Human Adaptation to Space
Text 2One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Text 3The Death of Writing?
Text 4We Are Cyborgs
Text 5Us and Them
Text 6Viewing Nature’s Beauty Through a New Lens
Answers for Reference