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Unit 1 College Education 1

Passage A The Value of a College Education 2

Passage B Another Education in University 5

Reading Skills Skimming 8

Supplementary Reading Universities and Their Function 10

Unit 2 Happiness 13

Passage A Happiness Index 14

Passage B Who Are the Happiest People? 17

Reading Skills Scanning 20

Supplementary Reading Black Beauty(Excerpt) 22

Unit 3 Sources of Beauty 27

Passage A Is This Seat Taken? 28

Passage B Reach for the Light 31

Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Context 34

Supplementary Reading The Old Man and the Sea(Excerpt) 36

Unit 4 Build up Blogs 41

Passage A Tips on Writing Content for Your Blog 42

Passage B Comments?Comments...Comments! 45

Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Word-building 49

Supplementary Reading Ten Things I've Learned about Blogging 51

Unit 5 Kids and Family 55

Passage A The Ring 56

Passage B Driving Lesson 59

Reading Skills Recognizing Words That Connect Ideas 63

Supplementary Reading King Grisly-Beard(Excerpt) 64

Comprehensive Practice Ⅰ 69

Unit 6 Touch of Life 75

Passage A Everyday Is a Gift 76

Passage B Letting Go of Yesterday 79

Reading Skills Getting Ideas Sorted out by Critical Thinking 82

Supplementary Reading Detour to Romance 85

Unit 7 Friendship 89

Passage A In Praise of Best Friends 90

Passage B A Friend Is 94

Reading Skills Searching for the Main Idea 97

Supplementary Reading Encounters with Manners(Excerpt) 98

Unit 8 Biography 103

Passage A Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs(Excerpt) 104

Passage B Bill Gates in His Boyhood 107

Reading Skills Understanding References and Making Inferences 111

Supplementary Reading The Master of Investment:Warren Buffett 112

Unit 9 Sports 115

Passage A Coming a Long Way,in More Ways than One 116

Passage B The Football Game 119

Reading Skills Recognizing Patterns 123

Supplementary Reading Around the World in Eighty Days(Excerpt) 126

Unit 10 Health 131

Passage A A Simple Guide to Eating out Without Putting on Weight 132

Passage B Vitamin Supplements—A Pill Is Not Always the Answer 136

Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions 139

Supplementary Reading Caught in the Web of the Internet 140

Comprehensive Practice Ⅱ 145

Key to Exercises 153