1 ENGLISH STUDIES AND TESTS 1
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 1
Section 2 Being All Ears 6
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 8
Passage Ⅰ A Nude at the Party! 8
Passage Ⅱ Whose English Is It,Anyway? 12
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 15
Section 5 Having Some Fun 17
2 ART OF NEGOTIATIONS 18
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 18
Section 2 Being All Ears 23
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 25
Passage Ⅰ Suggested Salary Negotiation Guidelines for Recent College Graduates 25
Passage Ⅱ Dollars and Sense 30
Passage Ⅲ Money Isn't Everything 31
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 32
Section 5 Having Some Fun 34
3 DNA AND CLONING 35
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 35
Section 2 Being All Ears 40
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 42
Passage Ⅰ Genetically Engineered Foods:Uh-Oh!! 42
Passage Ⅱ To Clone or Not to Clone? 47
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 49
Section 5 Having Some Fun 51
4 THE IT AGE 52
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 52
Section 2 Being All Ears 57
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 59
Passage Ⅰ The Internet Changed My Life 59
Passage Ⅱ Ban Cell Phones 64
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 67
Section 5 Having Some Fun 69
5 STUDYING OVERSEAS 70
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 70
Section 2 Being All Ears 75
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 78
Passage Ⅰ Are You Prepared for Learning Shock? 78
Passage Ⅱ Climate＆Clothing in the U.K. 82
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 86
Section 5 Having Some Fun 88
6 ART IN ENGINEERING 89
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 89
Section 2 Being All Ears 94
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 97
Passage Ⅰ Attacks on the World Trade Centre:An Engineering Perspective 97
Passage Ⅱ Ellen Ochoa and Jennifer Matozco:Two Great Female Engineers 102
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 105
Section 5 Having Some Fun 108
7 ENVIRONMENT 109
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 109
Section 2 Being All Ears 114
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 116
Passage Ⅰ Poisoning Our Food and Our Farmers 116
Passage Ⅱ How Our Food Choices Can Help Save the Environment 120
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 123
Section 5 Having Some Fun 124
8 CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 125
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 125
Section 2 Being All Ears 130
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 132
Passage Ⅰ Attacking Anxiety 132
Passage Ⅱ How to Spell Success 136
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 139
Section 5 Having Some Fun 141
SELF-ASSESSMENT 142
KEYS＆TRANSLATIONS 162
VOCABULARY＆PHRASES 223