Unit One
Text A Future Shlock by Neil Postman
Text B The Huxleyan Warning by Neil Postman
Unit Two
Text A Why People Don’t Help in A Crisis? by John M． Darley & Bibb Latané
Text B Territorial Behavior by Desmond Morris
Unit Three
Text A Death and Justice： How Capital Punishment Affirms Life by Edward I． Koch
Text B The Death Penalty by David Bruck
Unit Four
Text A The Promise by W． Somerset Maugham
Text B Theft by Katherine Anne Porter
Unit Five
Text A The Fine Art of Complaining by Caroline Rego
Text B How Urban Myths Reveal Society’s Fears by Neal Gabler
Unit Six
Text A Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
Text B The Politics of Starvation by George Orwell
Unit Seven
Text A The Human Drift by Jack London
Text B Reality and Contrivance by Erving Goffman
Unit Eight
Text A New York by Gay Talese
Text B The Aspect of London by Arthur Symons
Unit Nine
Text A Mother by Sherwood Anderson
Text B A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley
Unit Ten
Text A The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe
Text B A College Vagabond by Andy Adams
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