Plan of the Book Acknowledgement Text Lesson One Text A Thinking as a Hobby Text B The Pleasures of Learning Lesson Two Text A Waiting for the Police Text B The Hitch-hiker Lesson Three Text A Why Historians Disagree Text B The Third Man Lesson Four Text A A Drink in the Passage Text B The Bench Lesson Five Text A Man of the Moment Text B Climbing the Mountain of Success Lesson Six Text A Groundless Beliefs Text B Corn-pone Opinions Lesson Seven Text A Spring Sowing Text B The Earth Poet Lesson Eight Text A Globalization’s Dual Power Text B The International Language of Gestures Lesson Nine Text A The Most Dangerous Game Text B The Big Buffalo Bass Lesson Ten Text A The Telephone Text B The Hour of Letdown Lesson Eleven Text A The Pen of My Aunt Text B Only Three More Days Lesson Twelve Text A Lions and Tigers and Bears Text B Two Cities Lesson Thirteen Text A Soldier’s Heart Text B War Lesson Fourteen Text A How Do We Deal with the Drug Problem? Text B They Dared Cocaine—and Lost Lesson Fifteen Text A The Damned Human Race Text B The Case Against Man Vocabulary List Idiomatic Expressions and Collocations