Unit1 1
Passage 1 My Life on the Court 1
Passage 2 Your Airline Wants to Get to Know You 4
Passage 3 More than One Way to the Square 9
Passage 4 Can Nurses Care Too Much? 13
Unit2 17
Passage 1 Obama 17
Passage 2 Margaret Thatcher 21
Passage 3 Bill Gates 25
Passage 4 Diana,Princess of Wales 29
Unit3 34
Passage 1 The Internet—the Best Place to Learn English 34
Passage 2 Quality Schools 38
Passage 3 Successful Job Interviews 42
Passage 4 Thinking Revolution 46
Unit4 50
Passage 1 Delivering Food in a College Community 50
Passage 2 Tips to Maximizing Your College Budget 54
Passage 3 Landing a Part-time Job 57
Passage 4 Do You Need a Gap Year? 61
Unit5 66
Passage 1 April Fool's Day 66
Passage 2 Hello,Everybody 71
Passage 3 End of an Era 75
Passage 4 Bridal Showers 78
Unit6 83
Passage 1 Phelps's Mother Helps Her Son Find Gold-Medal Focus 83
Passage 2 Jet Li's One Foundation 87
Passage 3 Saving Private Ryan 92
Passage 4 Civil Rights Movements 96
Unit7 101
Passage 1 Gender Issues in Health ＆ Medicine 101
Passage 2 Prenuptial Agreements 105
Passage 3 Ethics Issue for Citizen Snappers 109
Passage 4 Euthanasia 112
Unit8 117
Passage 1 Difficult Behavior in Adolescents 117
Passage 2 Anxiety:How to Deal with it 121
Passage 3 Saying No to the Net 125
Passage 4 Up the Ladder,Step by Step 129
Unit9 133
Passage 1 Growing Cities and their Environment 133
Passage 2 Fighting over Freshwater 137
Passage 3 Climate Change in Action 141
Passage 4 The Next Generation of Biofuels 145
Unit10 150
Passage 1 The Dream of Geophysicists 150
Passage 2 The Unpredictable Computer 154
Passage 3 Fight Stress and Keep the Weight Off 158
Passage 4 The Future of Man—How Will Evolution Change Humans? 161
Key to Comprehension Exercises 166