UNIT 1
PART A Cambridge—the University Town 1
CONTENTS 1
REVIEW 1
Review 2
UNIT 2
UNIT 3
UNIT 4
UNIT 5
UNIT 6
UNIT 7
UNIT 8
UNIT 9
UNIT 10
PART B Ⅰ Oxford 11
Ⅱ The First Day in a Polytechnic in London 13
PART C Improve Your Reading 19
PART A New York City 22
PART B Ⅰ New York 32
Ⅱ The Man Who Planned the City of Washington 36
PART C How to Read a Text 44
PART A The Voices of Timc 46
PART B Ⅰ American Table Manners 56
Ⅱ The English Are Different 59
PART C Reading S:iently and Reading in Sense Groups 65
PART A Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well? 68
PART B Ⅰ Foreign Language Study in America 80
Ⅱ How to Give a Good Speech 85
PART C Using Context Clues to Guess Word Meanings(1) 91
PART A Alfred Nobel—a Man of Contrasts 96
PART B Ⅰ A.The Nobel Prizes 108
B.How a Nobel Prize Winner Is Chosen 110
Ⅱ A Gifted B.B.C.Newscaster 113
PART C Using Context Clues to Guess Word Meanings(2) 118
Ⅰ.Reading Comprehension 121
Ⅱ.Vocabulary and Structure 124
Ⅲ.Cloze 127
PART A The Midnight Visitor 128
PART B Ⅰ Self—Protection 141
Ⅱ Patients Needed 145
PART C Using Word Part Clues to Guess Word Meanings(1) 151
PART A Out of College and into the Red 154
PART B Ⅰ The Cost of Education 166
Ⅱ The College at Deep Springs 171
PART C Using Word Part Clues to Guess Word Meanings(2) 177
PART A Beavers 179
PART B Ⅰ The Polar Bears of Churchill 192
Ⅱ Invisible Wall Protects Swimmers from Sharks 196
PART C More About Word Parts—Suffixes 201
PART A Overpopulation and Social Behavior 204
PART B Ⅰ Headaches 220
Ⅱ Sleep 225
PART C Using a Dictionary(1) 231
PART A Blacks and Whites 234
PART B “I Have a Dream” 247
PART C Using a Dictionary(2) 257
Ⅰ.Reading Comprehension 259
Ⅱ.Vocabulary and Structure 263
Ⅲ.Cloze 266
VOCABULARY 268