Unit 7 Today's Youth 1
Part One Preparation 2
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 5
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities Enriching Your Word Power 8
In-Class Reading Profiles of Today's Youth:They Couldn't Care Less 12
After-Class Reading 21
Passage Ⅰ Me,Stuart,Mum and Dad 21
Passage Ⅱ College Pressures 28
Passage Ⅲ Postgraduate Paralysis 37
Part Four Further Development 45
Unit 8 The Media 51
Part One Preparation 52
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 54
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities Enriching Your Word Power 57
In-Class Reading It's Radio! 59
After-Class Reading 69
Passage Ⅰ What Makes TV Most Entertaining? 69
Passage Ⅱ Sounding the Waters 76
Passage Ⅲ The Power of the Press 83
Part Four Further Development 90
Unit 9 Computer Technology 93
Part One Preparation 94
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 96
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities Enriching Your Word Power 98
In-Class Reading Hackers,Crackers and Trackers 102
After-Class Reading 109
Passage Ⅰ Microchips 109
Passage Ⅱ Workplace of the 90's:High-Tech Sweatshop? 117
Passage Ⅲ Lost in the E-mail 125
Part Four Further Development 136
Unit 10 Medical Ethics 141
Part One Preparation 142
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 143
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities Enriching Your Word Power 145
In-Class Reading A License to Kill 147
After-Class Reading 157
Passage Ⅰ Required Course:Beside Manner 101 157
Passage Ⅱ Human Cloning,Don't Just Say No! 164
Passage Ⅲ How the Gene Test Can Affect Your Insurance 172
Part Four Further Development 181
Unit 11 Criminal Punishment and Crime Prevention 185
Part One Preparation 186
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 188
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities Enriching Your Word Power 191
In-Class Reading Death and Justice 194
After-Class Reading 202
Passage Ⅰ The Death Penalty 202
Passage Ⅱ The Criminals Go Unpunished 210
Passage Ⅲ Crime Prevention 217
Part Four Further Development 224
Unit 12 Ambition 227
Part One Preparation 228
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 231
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities Enriching Your Word Power 233
In-Class Reading Ambition 236
After-Class Reading 244
Passage Ⅰ Hacker or Mike? 244
Passage Ⅱ Romantic Ambition 252
Passage Ⅲ The Virtues of Ambition 260
Part Four Further Development 268
Test Yourself(College English Band Four) 271
Glossary 287