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Reading Skill Ⅰ Skimming 1

UNITS TITLE 1

Unit One 3

Lesson One The Peoples of Britain 3

Lesson Two American Parents 9

Passage One Mother s Day 13

Passage Two Retirement 15

Passage Three Special Birthday Gifts 16

Unit Two 19

Lesson One The Grass Is Always Greener 19

Lesson Two Books 24

Passage One The Missing Shoes 28

Passage Two Computer Translation 29

Passage Three Live and Learn 31

Lesson One A Hand to Hold 34

Unit Three 34

Lesson Two Friendship in Different Cultures 40

Passage One Flood of the Blind Migrants 44

Passage Two The American Way: Freedom 45

Passage Three The British Educational System 47

Unit Four 50

Lesson One Searching the Web with Yahoo! 50

Lesson Two Seal Watch 55

Passage One The Farmer and the Foxes 60

Passage Two Message from the Sea 61

Passage Three My First Car 63

Unit Five 65

Lesson One Tighten Your Belt 65

Lesson Two Future of Linguistics 70

Passage One The Man Who Will Be King 73

Passage Two Best Friends 75

Passage Three Another Kennedy Is Lost to the World 77

Reading Skill Ⅱ Identifying the main idea 80

Unit Six 82

Lesson One Preview, Read, Write, Recite 82

Lesson Two How to Find Time to Read 91

Passage One Male and Female Roles 95

Passage Two Employment—the Utopian Goal 96

*Passage Three 98

Unit Seven 100

Lesson One The Dog 100

Lesson Two The Partnership of Dog and Human 104

*Passage One 108

Passage Two Life of a Dog 110

Passage Three Caring For a Dog 111

Lesson One Noah s Ark 113

Unit Eight 113

Lesson Two Flood Control 120

*Passage One 124

Passage Two Floods and Dams 126

Passage Three Waterways 127

Unit Nine 129

Lesson One Some Theories about Play 129

Lesson Two Children and Play 134

Passage One The Period of Adolescence 138

Passage Two Cost of a Miracle 140

Passage Three Benefits of Play 142

Unit Ten 144

Lesson One Cross Over, Sawyer! 144

Lesson Two Laugh Your Stress Away 152

Passage One Humor 156

Passage Two The Animals Went in Two by Two 158

Passage Three Cartoons 160

Reading Skill Ⅲ Word Formation (A: Prefixes) 163

Unit Eleven 166

Lesson One New Rules For Landing a Job Interview 166

Lesson Two When You re Too Shy 171

Passage One How to Deal with Difficult People(1) 177

Passage Two How to Deal with Difficult People(2) 179

Passage Three A Society of Employees 181

Unit Twelve 183

Lesson One Start One s Own Business? 183

Lesson Two How the United States Economy Works: an Overview 187

Passage One The Role of Federal Reserve Banks 193

Passage Two Matching Products and Markets 195

Passage Three Setting the Price 196

Lesson One International Monetary Fund 199

Unit Thirteen 199

Lesson Two Demand and Supply 204

Passage One The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 208

Passage Two Marketing is Good for You: 210

Passage Three Heinzight 212

Unit Fourteen 215

Lesson One The Calorie Density Diet 215

Lesson Two Coming Soon: The Next Great Flu Epidemic 220

Passage One Aspirin: Exciting New Benefits 226

Passage Two Work, Play and Rest 228

Passage Three The Food We Eat 230

Unit Fifteen 232

Lesson One Have Airlines Forgotten Their Passengers? 232

Lesson Two How You Can Fight Back 238

Passage One Night, Night! It s Bedtime for Business Class 243

Passage Two Body Language 245

Passage Three Kinesics 246

Reading Skill Ⅳ Transition 249

Unit Sixteen 250

Lesson One My Brother s Way 250

Lesson Two Chasing the Wild Bulls 255

Passage One Closing the Gap 260

Passage Two My Son Gets Wheels 262

Passage Three My Father Was a Cop 264

Unit Seventeen 266

Lesson One Finding My Father 266

Lesson Two That Day in the Trench 272

Passage One Growing Straight and True 276

Passage Two Sam s Way 278

Passage Three Blues—Jazz 280

Unit Eighteen 282

Lesson One A Question of Trust 282

Lesson Two Singing in the Key of Me 287

Passage One The Incredible Ice Cream Machine 293

Passage Two One Ingredient Missing 295

Passage Three Who Are the Happiest People? 297

Unit Nineteen 300

Lesson One UFOs—A Second Look 300

Lesson Two Bringing Work Home 305

Passage One Black Movement 309

Passage Two The Wind 310

Passage Three How to Be True to Yourself 311

Unit Twenty 313

Lesson One American Family Life 313

Lesson Two News and Entertainment Media 319

Passage One New Rules For a Happy Marriage 325

Passage Two If You Think We Think Alike, Think Again 328

Passage Three Click Your Way to an M.B.A 330