Unit One growing Up 1
Reading 1 That Day in the Trench 2
Reading 2 My first Job 7
Reading 3 The Return of the Queen 13
Unit Two Language and Language Learning 17
Reading 1 Reaping the Rewards of Learning English 18
Reading 2 Spell It in English 23
Reading 3 English Emerging as World Language 30
Unit Three The Making of a Winner 37
Reading 1 What Winners Know 38
Reading 2 Racing Against the Clock 45
Reading 3 Never Give Up 51
Unit Four Sure Steps to Self-respect 56
Reading 1 How to Be True to Yourself 57
Reading 2 Smile of a lifetime（Part 1） 62
Reading 3 Smile of a lifetime（Part 2） 65
Unit Five towards a More Harmonious World 71
Reading 1 There Is Magic in a Word of Praise 72
Reading 2 Smiling If You are Feeling Stressed 78
Reading 3 On Behalf of Common Courtesy 84
Unit Six Joys of Reading 88
Reading 1 What is Right About Reading 89
Reading 2 Computers Can not Replace Education Curiosity 95
Reading 3 Story of an Heir 100
Unit Seven True Love 104
Reading 1 My Only True Love（Part 1） 105
Reading 2 My Only True Love （Part 2） 108
Reading 3 Love Means Sometimes Having to Say I am Angry 114
Unit Eight Changes in Life 118
Reading 1 Computers and Communication 119
Reading 2 Change and Newspaper 124
Reading 3 To Meet the Challenge of the Economy is Rapid Change 129
Unit Nine The State of the World 134
Reading 1 The Illusion of Progress 135
Reading 2 The Bounty of the Sea 139
Reading 3 What Do We Face? 143
Unit Ten The Marvels of Medicine 149
Reading 1 Isaac Asimov’s Futureworld：Medicine 150
Reading 2 World is First Robot Surgeon Proves Smooth Operator 154
Reading 3 Scientists Expand Gene Alteration in Sheep 157
Key to Exercises 161