Unit1 1
1 Text The Shadowland of Dreams 1
2 Reading Skills Using the Dictionary 6
3 Testing Fast Reading 8
4 Home Reading Isambard Kingdom Brunel 12
Unit2 18
1 Text A Very Special Goose 18
2 Reading Skills Dealing with Synonyms and Antonyms 27
3 Testing Fast Reading 29
4 Home Reading Happy Accidents 32
Unit3 38
1 Text Environmental Problems 38
2 Testing Fast Reading 44
3 Home Reading Farming 48
Unit4 53
1 Text The Lady on Pemberton Street 53
2 Reading Skills Dealing with Homonyms 59
3 Testing Fast Reading 60
4 Home Reading It s Our World,Tool 64
Unit5 71
1 Text A Mother s Place 71
2 Reading Skills Skimming 78
3 Testing Fast Reading 79
4 Home Reading To Grandmother s House We Go 83
Unit6 91
1 Text Fathers Sons:the Bonding Process 91
2 Testing Fast Reading 97
3 Home Reading My Father s Music 101
Unit7 106
1 Text Numbers and Omens 106
2 Reading Skills Scanning 114
3 Testing Fast Reading 116
4 Home Reading Red Envelopes:It s the Thought That Counts 120
1 Text Getting Enough Sleep?Dream on 127
Unit8 127
2 Reading Skills Choosing Reading Speeds 134
3 Testing Fast Reading 136
4 Home Reading Three Hours to Save Your Life 140
Unit9 147
1 Text First There Was the Land 147
2 Testing Fast Reading 153
3 Home Reading The Birth of the Modern World 157
1 Text Ancient Olympic Games 164
Unit10 164
2 Reading Skills Facts and Opinions 170
3 Testing Fast Reading 172
4 Home Reading Modern Olympic Games 175
Unit11 182
1 Text “We are Still Alive!” 182
2 Reading Skills Making Inferences 189
3 Testing Fast Reading 191
4 Home Reading Darwin——Cyclone Tracy in 1974 195
Unit12 201
1 Text The Beauty and the Yak 201
2 Testing Fast Reading 207
3 Home Reading A New Future for Dorah 211
Unit13 217
1 Text Danger by Candlelight 217
2 Reading Skills Underlining and Listing 224
3 Testing Fast Reading 226
4 Home Reading A Physicist s Life in a Turbulent World 230
Unit14 236
1 Text Overdue Interest 236
2 Reading Skills Summarizing 244
3 Testing Fast Reading 246
4 Home Reading G.A.Fitch s Diary 250
Unit15 257
1 Text The Old Man and the Sea(I) 257
2 Testing Fast Reading 266
3 Home Reading The Old Man and the Sea(Ⅱ) 270