Unit One Arts 1
Text 1 Musical Film 2
Text 2 Spotlight on Florence 5
Text 3 How Jazz Began 8
Text 4 The British Museum 11
Text 5 Chinese Painting 14
Unit Two The Economy 17
Text 1 Burn Your House， Boost the Economy 18
Text 2 Public Release of $2 Bills at Face Value Continues 21
Text 3 Risky Business 24
Text 4 Shanghai： Real Estate Market Worries 26
Text 5 Swiss Banking Secrecy 29
Unit Three Genetic Engineering 33
Text 1 What Are Genetically Modified （GM） Foods？ 34
Text 2 Feeding the World — Facts versus Fiction 36
Text 3 GE Agriculture and Genetic Pollution 39
Text 4 What Are the Risks of Cloning？ 41
Text 5 Post-Genome Shopper 44
Unit Four Sleep and Dreams 47
Text 1 Why Do We Dream？ 48
Text 2 Sleep Behavior 50
Text 3 What Do Our Dreams Mean？ 53
Text 4 Lack of Sleep Affects Kids’ Alertness 56
Text 5 A Good Night’s Sleep 59
Unit Five Outer Space 63
Text 1 The Sun’s Atmosphere 64
Text 2 What Are Falling Stars？ 66
Text 3 Unmasking the Face of Mars 69
Text 4 Mourn for Challenger 72
Text 5 The First Traveller in Space 75
Unit Six War and Peace 77
Text 1 The Maginot Line 78
Text 2 Lifesaver Hero： Florence Nightingale 81
Text 3 The Blitz 84
Text 4 Gun Politics in the United States 87
Text 5 Mahatma Gandhi 91
Unit Seven The Internet and Computers 95
Text 1 The Origins and History of Computer Viruses 96
Text 2 Personal Communication in the Age of the Internet 99
Text 3 Chat Room Briton Saves US Family from Poisoning 102
Text 4 What Is Cyberlove？ 105
Text 5 Artificial Intelligence in the Game of Go 108
Unit Eight Politics 111
Text 1 Why the European Union？ 112
Text 2 Hiroshima： Harty Truman’s Diaty and Papers 115
Text 3 Benjamin Franklin 118
Text 4 The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall 121
Text 5 Roman Government 124
Answers 127