READING SKILL:Finding the Main Idea 1
UNIT 1 Reading 3
TEXT Ⅰ：How Can a Person Learn to Read Faster? 4
TEXT Ⅱ：Reading Tastes and Habits 12
UNIT 2 Musie 16
TEXT Ⅰ：Music's History May Show a Path to Future Peace 17
TEXT Ⅱ：Listening to Music 26
UNIT 3 Generation 30
TEXT Ⅰ：The Law vs.the Piano 31
TEXT Ⅱ：Bricklayer's Boy 41
UNIT 4 Weather and Climate 45
TEXT Ⅰ：What Makes the Weather? 46
TEXT Ⅱ：Types of Climate 55
UNIT 5 Work 60
TEXT Ⅰ：Why People Work 61
TEXT Ⅱ：Who Makes It to the Top?—Upward Mobility in the Business World 70
READING SKILL:Recognizing the Pattern of Details 75
UNIT 6 The Afriean-Amerieans 77
TEXT Ⅰ：Martin Luther King 78
TEXT Ⅱ：The First Black Woman Receiving Nobel Prize in Literature 87
UNIT 7 Greek Stories 91
TEXT Ⅰ：Orpheus and Eurydice 92
TEXT Ⅱ：The Return of Odysseus 102
UNIT 8 Attitude Jowards Life 107
TEXT Ⅰ：The Power of Personal Attitudes 108
TEXT Ⅱ：Dare Mighty Things 118
UNIT 9 First Aid 122
TEXT Ⅰ：First Aid 123
TEXT Ⅱ：How to Deal with Common Emergencies 133
UNIT 10 Marriage 139
TEXT Ⅰ：You Will Have a Good Life 140
TEXT Ⅱ：Wedding Customs in the West 149
READING SKILL:Outlining 153
UNIT 11 Greativity 155
TEXT Ⅰ：Where Do Those Bright Ideas Come From? 156
TEXT Ⅱ：How to Get a Great Idea? 165
UNIT 12 Travel 168
TEXT Ⅰ：Travel Around the USA 169
TEXT Ⅱ：Tourism 178
UNIT 13 Examinations 182
TEXT Ⅰ：Types of Examinations 183
TEXT Ⅱ：Cheating:Alive and Flourishing 192
UNIT 14 Intelleetual Droperty 197
TEXT Ⅰ：Copyright 198
TEXT Ⅱ：Patents 207
UNIT 15 Law 211
TEXT Ⅰ：Remarks of Attorney General John Ashcroft—At the First Annual Computer Privacy,Policy ＆ Security Institute 212
TEXT Ⅱ：Courts 222
UNIT 16 World War Ⅱ 227
TEXT Ⅰ：Edward R.Murrow Reports on Britain under the Bombs 228
TEXT Ⅱ：How Did World War Ⅱ Start? 237
UNIT 17 Housing 243
TEXT Ⅰ：Show Me the Way to Go Home 244
TEXT Ⅱ：Mobile Homes 252
UNIT 18 Drama 257
TEXT：A Question of Ethics 258