Passage A：How to Read Faster 1
Table of ContentsUnit 1 1
Passage B：America's Luckiest Stamp Find 6 3
Passage B：How to Take Tests：Scoring What You're Worth 9
Passage C：How to Shine at a Job Interview 16
Unit 2 21
Passage A：It Is Never Too Late for Success 21
Passage B：Nothing Succeeds Like Excess 28
Passage C：News Sources 32
Unit 3 38
Passage A：The Best Teacher I Ever Had 38
Passage B：Laugh，Teacher，Laugh！ 43
Passage C：A Return to Teaching 48
Unit 4 58
Passage A：A Handful of History 58
Passage C：Money：Real and Counterfeit 68
Unit 5 74
Passage A：The Female Mosquito 74
Passage B：Elephants 80
Passage C：How Animals Hear 85
Passage A：The Americans 91
Unit 6 91
Passage B：And All That Jazz 94
Passage C：The Case for Believing in Santa 99
Unit 7 105
Passage A：Television 105
Passage B：Television：How It Affects Us 110
Passage C：Warning：TV Can Be Hazardous to Children 116
Unit 8 123
Passage A：Marriage 123
Passage B：The Changing American Family 128
Passage C：From the Other Side of the Generation Gap 132
Unit9 137
Passage A：Inside Story 137
Passage B：Worry Beads 141
Passage C：The Secrets of a Very Long Life 145
Unit 10 150
Passage A：We'll Never Have Enough Money 150
Passage B：The Psychology of Money 155
Passage C．Salaries 161
Passage A：The Good Picnic Guide 168
Unit 11 168
Passage B：At Table 175
Passage C：Adventure with a Turkey Vulture 179
Unit 12 184
Passage A：Ivan and My Tennis Game 184
Passage B：My Secret Valentine 189
Passage C：A Gift for Mother's Day 192
Unit 13 197
Passage A：Why Don't Girls Think Like Boys？ 197
Passage B：Boys Are Teachers'Pets 202
Passage C：Surrounded by Sisters 208
Unit 14 215
Passage A：Women's Liberation 215
Passage B：Male/Female Roles in the United States 221
Passage C：Women in Sports 225
Unit 15 229
Passage A：The Voices of Time 229
Passage B：If I Were 21 234
Passage C：Sweet September 239
Passage A：Gossip（Ⅰ） 247
Unit 16 247
Passage B：Gossip（Ⅱ） 253
Passage C：Gossip（Ⅲ） 258
Unit 17 261
Passage A：Day of Terror（Ⅰ） 261
Passage B：Day of Terror（Ⅱ） 267
Passage C：The Day I Unpacked the Snakes 274
Unit 18 280
Passage A：Fashion：The Art of the Body 280
Passage B：Trials and Errors 286
Passage C：Conteh，the Driver，Banned for a Year 291
Unit 19 295
Passage A：Travelling in the Jungle 295
Passage B：Water—Everybody's Problem 301
Passage C：The Romance of Train Travel 306
Unit 20 311
Passage A：The Hitch-Hiker（Ⅰ） 311
Passage B：The Hitch-Hiker（Ⅱ） 317
Passage C：The Hitch-Hiker（Ⅲ） 328
Answer Keys 333