Unit 1 Career Success 1
Part Ⅰ Tune In 1
Part Ⅱ Listen 2
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 6
Text Ⅰ Nurture Your Nature:Daily Actions for Future Success 6
Text Ⅱ The Art of Strategic Anticipation:Investing in Your Positive Futures 13
Supplementary Reading It's Never Too Late for Success 17
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 20
Exam Tips 如何做“听力理解”部分的多项选择题 21
Unit 2 Family and School Life 22
Part Ⅰ Tune In 22
Part Ⅱ Listen 23
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 27
Text Ⅰ Costly School Trips Leave Poorer Students Behind 27
Text Ⅱ Making Kids Do Chores Can Be a Labor of Love 34
Supplementary Reading A New"Time-Out" 38
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 40
Unit 3 Daily Life 41
Part Ⅰ Tune In 41
Part Ⅱ Listen 43
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 46
Text Ⅰ Churchill's Secret Weapon:the Power Nap 46
Text Ⅱ Just Say"No| 54
Supplementary Reading Work-at-home Wannabe? 60
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 62
Exam Tips 如何做“英语知识运用”部分的完形填空 63
Unit 4 Current Affairs 65
Part Ⅰ Tune In 65
Part Ⅱ Listen 66
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 70
Text Ⅰ In Defense of Zoos 70
Text Ⅱ Is There an Alcoholic in Your Life? 76
Supplementary Reading Voices of Guns 80
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 82
Unit 5 People and Personalities 85
Part Ⅰ Tune In 85
Part Ⅱ Listen 86
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 90
Text Ⅰ Only Cowards Can Be Brave 90
Text Ⅱ Lombroso and Tolstoy-An Anthropologist's Unwitting Gift to Literature 98
Supplementary Reading How To Recognize an Aries 103
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 105
Exam Tips 如何做“阅读理解”部分的多项选择题 107
Unit 6 Social Relations 109
Part Ⅰ Tune In 109
Part Ⅱ Listen 110
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 113
Text Ⅰ Gender Equality 113
Text Ⅱ Getting Girls On-line 120
Supplementary Reading Negotiation 124
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 125
Unit 7 Free-time Activities 126
Part Ⅰ Tune In 126
Part Ⅱ Listen 128
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 132
Text Ⅰ The Use of Free Time 132
Text Ⅱ Why Do Hollywood and TV Keep Showing Us Violence? 139
Supplementary Reading I Haven't Got Time for Hobbies 145
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 147
Exam Tips 如何做“阅读理解”部分的多项搭配题 149
Unit 8 Diet and Fitness 151
Part Ⅰ Tune In 151
Part Ⅱ Listen 154
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 157
Text Ⅰ Six Ways to Burn Fat Faster 157
Text Ⅱ When to Worry about Your Child's Weight 165
Supplementary Reading Diet 171
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 173
Unit 9 Travel and Holiday 176
Part Ⅰ Tune In 176
Part Ⅱ Listen 178
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 182
Text Ⅰ Tourists in Paris Feel the Pinch as Pickpockets Flourish 182
Text Ⅱ Road's Scholar 189
Supplementary Reading Teen Drivers:Keeping Them Alive 195
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 197
Exam Tips 如何准备PETS三级写作 199
Unit 10 Business and Services 202
Part Ⅰ Tune In 202
Part Ⅱ Listen 203
Part Ⅰ Read and Discuss 207
Text Ⅰ Waiting for the Jukebox 207
Text Ⅱ The Death of Service 213
Supplementary Reading The After-Christmas Sale That Never Ends 219
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 222
Unit 11 Health and Body Care 224
Part Ⅰ Tune In 224
Part Ⅱ Listen 225
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 229
Text Ⅰ E-Therapy Comes of Age 229
Text Ⅱ Who's Prying Now? 236
Supplementary Reading Heal Thyself 240
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 242
Exam Tips 如何准备PETS三级口试 243
Unit 12 Popular Science 245
Part Ⅰ Tune In 245
Part Ⅱ Listen 246
Part Ⅲ Read and Discuss 250
Text Ⅰ Watching Babies'Brains Develop 250
Text Ⅱ The Text Generation 258
Supplementary Reading We've Got Mail—Always 263
Part Ⅳ Speak and Write 265
附录1 模拟试卷 266
笔试试卷 266
口试试卷 322
附录2 练习及模拟试卷参考答案 330
附录3 听力原文 397
附录4 词汇表 466