Unit One Growing Up 1
Reading 1 That Day in the Trench 2
Reading 2 My First Job 8
Reading 3 The Return of the Queen 15
Unit Two Language and Language Learning 20
Reading 1 Reaping the Rewards of Learning English 21
Reading 2 Spell It in English 27
Reading 3 English Emerging as World Language 35
Unit Three The Making of a Winner 44
Reading 1 What Winners Know 45
Reading 2 Racing Against the Clock 53
Reading 3 Never Give Up 60
Unit Four Sure Steps to Self-respect 66
Reading 1 How to Be True to Yourself 67
Reading 2 Smile of a Lifetime(Part 1) 74
Reading 3 Smile of a Lifetime(Part 2) 77
Unit Five Towards a More Harmonious World 84
Reading 1 There Is Magic in a Word of Praise 85
Reading 2 Smiling If You're Feeling Stressed 92
Reading 3 On Behalf of Common Courtesy 100
Unit Six Joys of Reading 105
Reading 1 What's Right About Reading 106
Reading 2 Computers Can't Replace Education,Curiosity 113
Reading 3 Story of an Heir 119
Unit Seven True Love 124
Reading 1 My Only True Love(Part 1) 125
Reading 2 My Only True Love(Part 2) 128
Reading 3 Love Means Sometimes Having to Say"I'm Angry" 135
Unit Eight Changes in Life 139
Reading 1 Computers and Communication 140
Reading 2 Change and Newspaper 146
Reading 3 To Meet the Challenge of the Economy's Rapid Change 152
Unit Nine The State of the World 159
Reading 1 The Illusion of Progress 160
Reading 2 The Bounty of the Sea 164
Reading 3 What Do We Face? 169
Unit Ten The Marvels of Medicine 175
Reading 1 Isaac Asimov's Futureworld:Medicine 176
Reading 2 World's First Robot Surgeon Proves Smooth Operator 181
Reading 3 Scientists Expand Gene Alteration in Sheep 185
Key to Exercises 189