Unit 1 1
Passage A: “The Best Way to Learn a Foreign Language Is to Speak It?” 2
Passage B: Computer Game Improves Children's Language Skills 8
Passage C: Start School with a Click 12
Unit 2 17
Passage A: Closing the Gap 18
Passage B: Suddenly I'm the Adult? 22
Passage C: How to Talk So Your Teenagers Will Listen 26
Unit 3 31
Passage A: True Generosity 32
Passage B: Fourteen Steps 36
Passage C: Two Paper Angels 40
Unit 4 45
Passage A: When Two Hands Meet 46
Passage B: Gestures Speak 51
Passage C: Body Language: Seating Positions 55
Unit 5 59
Passage A: Why I Wear a Red Ribbon 60
Passage B: Awakening a Giant 64
Passage C: Other Women Like Us: Carrying the History of AIDS 69
Unit 6 73
Passage A: The Uncommon Professional 74
Passage B: The Break I Got from Prison 78
Passage C: Come Face the Heat 83
Unit 7 89
Passage A: In Depth: School Shooting Six-year-old Boy Kills Classmate 90
Passage B: How Americans Feel About Guns 95
Passage C: Violence Can Be Tackled 99
Unit 8 103
Passage A: Out-of-the-Box, In-the-Box, New-Box, Other-Box,No-Box Thinking 104
Passage B: Overcome Obstacles to Creativity 108
Passage C: Train Your Creative Thinking 113
Unit 9 117
Passage A: Chinese Undergraduates in the US 118
Passage B: My Four Years at Yale 123
Passage C: I Have Learned So Much 128
Unit 10 133
Passage A: Nobody Wants to Cheat 134
Passage B: Schools Wise Up to Ways of High-Tech Cheats 138
Passage C: Honesty Remains the Best Policy 143
Key 149