Unit 1 After a Vicious Attack 1
Part One Timed Reading 2
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 4
Text 1 In Stopping to Save Woman, Rescuers Saved Themselves(1) 4
Text 2 In Stopping to Save Woman, Rescuers Saved Themselves(2) 7
Text 3 In Stopping to Save Woman, Rescuers Saved Themselves(3) 10
Unit 2 Cloing-Pandora's Box? 14
Part One Timed Reading 15
Text 1 Human Cloning- Is That Possible? (1) 17
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 17
Text 2 Human Cloning- Is That Possible? (2) 21
Text 3 The First Cloned Human Embryo 24
Unit 3 Conflicts in Our Modern Civilization 27
Part One Timed Reading 28
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 30
Text 1 The Next Pattern of Conflict 30
Text 2 The Nature of Civilizations 33
Text 3 Rethinking Segregation Beyond Black and White 36
Unit 4 The Mind and the Body 40
Part One Timed Reading 41
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 43
Text 1 Secret Power of Pets 43
Text 2 More Than Just a Smell 47
Text 3 Memory and Context of Learning 50
Test Yourself (1) 54
Unit 5 Economy 63
Part One Timed Reading 64
Text 1 Looking Back at the Crash of 1929: Then, as Now, a New Era 65
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 65
Text 2 Through the Wringer 68
Text 3 A Dangerous Addiction 71
Unit 6 Gene Family- a Pacemaker in Genetic Domain 74
Part One Timed Reading 75
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 77
Text 1 Columbia's First Gene Therapy Trial 77
Text 2 New Gene Family for Pacemaker Activity 80
Text 3 Transgenic Mice 84
Unit 7 Speeches of Famous Persons 87
Part One Timed Reading 88
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 89
Text 1 I Have a Dream 89
Text 2 Speech of Gore (1) 92
Text 3 Speech of Gore (2) 94
Unit 8 Early Education 98
Part One Timed Reading 99
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 101
Text 1 Take Back the Class, One Row at a Time 101
Text 2 Technology vs. Textbooks 104
Text 3 Reading Must Be Learned Early 107
Test Yourself (2) 111
Unit 9 Our Mood, Psychology and Health 119
Part One Timed Reading 120
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 121
Text 1 Hunting the Cause of Winter Depression 121
Text 2 I Think I Can Be Healthy 125
Text 3 Spirituality Prevents Depression in Old Age 129
Unit 10 Water 133
Part One Timed Reading 134
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 136
Text 1 Possible Water Shortage 136
Text 2 The Importance of Water for Life 139
Text 3 The Trade in Animals 142
Unit 11 Our Social Lives 146
Part One Timed Reading 147
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 148
Text 1 The Great Changes in People's Lives 148
Text 2 Challenges for Today's Parents 151
Text 3 Who Is Crazy? 154
Unit 12 Our Global Ecology 157
Part One Timed Reading 158
Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 160
Text 1 Built Environemnt in Industrial Ecology 160
Text 2 Ecological Risk Assessment 163
Text 3 Endangered Landscape 166
Test Yourself (3) 170
Key 179
Glossary 192