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Unit One 1

Texts:How to Read Fast 1

Common Faults in Reading and How to Cure Them 9

How to Take Tests:Scoring What You're Worth 16

Sample Test on Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension 21

Unit Two 28

Texts:Advertising:The Selling of a Product 28

Movie Magic 34

Customs Vary with Culture 41

Fast Reading:College Life in the United States 49

Unit Three 52

Texts:0ld Man River 52

On the Road:Travel Lifestyles 56

What Can We Learn from Art? 64

Senior Citizens 70

Unit Four 79

Texts:Space Shuttle 79

Computers for the Masses 83

Archeoastronomy 90

Fast Reading:Food Personalities 97

Evenings with the Family:Present and Past 99

Unit Five 102

Texts:New York Botanist Wins'83 Nobel Medical Prize 102

Gun Control 107

Latchkey Children—Knock，Knock，Is Anybody Home? 113

Fast Reading:Laws 118

United States Emigrants 120

Unit Six 122

Texts:Women Balance Policework and Home 122

About Men:Conflicting Interests 128

The Making of a Father 135

Fast Reading:A Congressional Astronaut 141

Unit Seven 144

Texts:Making a Culture Change 144

The Misery of Shyness 149

My Country 155

Fast Reading:Disease Detectives 163

Dangerous Sports 166

Texts:Getting Organized:Where Did I Put My Keys? 169

Unit Eight 169

Burning Up Money and Yourself 175

Migration and Homing 181

Fast Reading:A Traditional Holiday 187

Smart Shopping 189

Unit Nine 193

Texts:The Value of Friendship 193

Saving Face 198

Salt:A Crumbling Pillar 204

Fast Reading:Colonial Williamsburg 210

Mark Twain 212

Key to Exercises 216

Chinese Equivalents for Some New Words 222

Appendix 227