Section B Judge by Appearances A standard criticism of sociological research is that it goes to great lengths to prove what most people with common sense already know. Without exactly taking sides for...
Unit 6 Section A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Please listen to a short passage carefully and prepare to answer some questions. Second Listening Listen to the tape again. Then answer the foll...
Section C What Is in Larry's Mind? The day my son Larry started kindergarten(幼儿园) he gave up trousers with bibs(围嘴)and began wearing blue jeans with a belt. I watched him go off the...
Section B Stop Spoiling Your Children While traveling for various speaking appointments, I frequently stay overnight in the home of a family and am assigned to one of the children's bedrooms. In it, I...
Unit 5 Section A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Please listen to a short passage carefully and prepare to answer some questions. Second Listening Listen to the tape again. Then answer the foll...
Section C My First Day Abroad It was my first day. I had come the night before, a black and cold night before — as it was expected to be in the middle of January, though I didn't know that at the ti...
Section B Experiences in Exile We are in Montreal, in an echoing, dark train station, and we are squeezed together on a bench waiting for someone to give us some guidance. Eventually, a man speaking b...
Unit 4 Section A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Please listen to a short passage carefully and prepare to answer some questions. Second Listening Listen to the tape again. Then answer the foll...
Section C Finding a Marriage Partner All humans are born into families — and families begin with the joining together of a man and a woman in marriage. All societies have their own form of marriage....
Section B Rich Meeting His Future Mother-in-law After much thought, I came up with a brilliant plan for Rich to meet my mother and win her over. In fact, I arranged it so my mother would want to cook...