UNIT ONE
1. The Kindness of Strangers
2. Drowning
3. Politics: Never Satisfactory, Always Necessary
UNIT TWO
4. My way to Success
5. Why Smart People Fail
6. I Never Had It Made
UNIT THREE
7. The City
8. My Cousin, the Gambler
9. Waiting-Room
UNIT FOUR
10. Carnegie, an American Industrialist
11. Assembling Computers Means That Happiness Doesn't Come Till 4: 30
12. The Pace of Life
KEY TO TEST YOURSELF(I)
UNIT FIVE
13. The Importance of Being Interested
14. Why Graduates Won't Wear Science
15. Sold on the Super Mall
UNIT SIX
16. Mr. Know-All
17. They Created the Jet Age
18. "No Horse , No Wife, No Mustache" .
UNIT SEVEN
19. Family Ties
20. Improving the Quality of Life
21. The Nobel Prizes
UNIT EIGHT
22. University Days
23. Space - 30 Years into the Future
24. "A Troublesome Boy".
KEY TO TEST YOURSELF(2)