Unit 1 Suspense 1
Part One Preparation 1
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 1
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 3
In-Class Reading The Lady or the Tiger? 3
After-Class Reading 11
Passage Ⅰ The Tell-Tale Heart 11
Passage Ⅱ Cleaning Up 16
Part Four Further Development 21
Quiz 1 22
Unit 2 Communication 26
Part One Preparation 26
Part TWo Listening-Centered Activities 27
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 28
In-Class Reading Understanding an Utterance 28
After-Class Reading 36
Passage Ⅰ Silence in Communication 36
Passage Ⅱ Who's Funny? 40
Part Four Further Development 45
Quiz 2 46
Unit 3 Medicine 49
Part One Preparation 49
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 50
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 51
In-Class Reading Aching for Relief 51
After-Class Reading 58
Passage Ⅰ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 58
Passage Ⅱ Beginning of the End for Antibiotics 64
Part Four Further Development 68
Quiz 3 69
Unit 4 Family 73
Part One Preparation 73
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 74
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 75
In-Class Reading Do Parents Know Their Kids? 75
After-Class Reading 83
Passage Ⅰ My Most Unforgettable Character 83
Passage Ⅱ Costly If We Have Them:More Costly If We Don't 88
Part Four Further Development 92
Quiz 4 93
Unit 5 Population 97
Part One Preparation 97
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 97
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 98
In-Class Reading Battle of the Bulge 98
After-Class Reading 106
Passage Ⅰ Migration 106
Passage Ⅱ Aging Populations 110
Part Four Further Development 115
Quiz 5 116
Unit 6 The Open Window 120
Part One Preparation 120
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 121
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 122
In-Class Reading The Open Window 122
After-Class Reading 131
Passage Ⅰ The Last Leaf 131
Passage Ⅱ The Kiss 137
Part Four Further Development 140
Quiz 6 142
Unit 7 Cloning 145
Part One Preparation 145
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 146
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 147
In-Class Reading Whose Self Is It,Anyway? 147
After-Class Reading 157
Passage Ⅰ Dolly's False Legacy 157
Passage Ⅱ Mouse Cloning Begins Bio-Industrial Era 163
Part Four Further Development 169
Quiz 7 170
Unit 8 Changing Values 174
Part One Preparation 174
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 175
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 177
In-Class Reading Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age? 177
After-Class Reading 184
Passage Ⅰ Something Un-Chinese Haunts a Graduate:Choice 184
Passage Ⅱ Where the Boys Aren't 189
Part Four Further Development 192
Quiz 8 193
Unit 9 Invention 197
Part One Preparation 197
Part TWo Listening-Centered Activities 197
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 198
In-Class Reading Invention Is the Mother of Necessity 198
After-Class Reading 205
Passage Ⅰ Necessity—The Mother of Invention 205
Passage Ⅱ Nothing 211
Part Four Further Development 214
Quiz 9 215
Unit 10 The Future 219
Part One Preparation 219
Part TWo Listening-Centered Activities 220
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 221
In-Class Reading The Future That Has Already Happened 221
After-Class Reading 230
Passage Ⅰ 2001-3000 the World As It Will Be 230
Passage Ⅱ Inventing the Future 236
Part Four Further Development 240
Quiz 10 241
Unit 11 Women in the Workplace 244
Part One Preparation 244
Part TWo Listening-Centered Activities 244
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 245
In-Class Reading Why Women Aren't Getting to the Top 245
After-Class Reading 253
Passage Ⅰ In the Company of Women 253
Passage Ⅱ Women Are Pushy,Men Ambitious 258
Part Four Further Development 263
Quiz 11 264
Unit 12 The Hungry Mind 267
Part One Preparation 267
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 267
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 268
In-Class Reading Feeding the Mind 268
After-Class Reading 275
Passage Ⅰ Self-Renewal 275
Passage Ⅱ Four Kinds of Reading 281
Part Four Further Development 286
Quiz 12 287