CONTENTS 1
Unit One Reading News Reports 1
Lesson 1 Hour of Horror Forever Alters American Lives 1
Lesson 2 Is the Aerospace Industry Ready for Mars？ 17
Lesson 3 The“Long Goodbye” 29
Unit Two Reading Biographies and Personal Recollections 41
Lesson 4 Bill Clinton 41
Lesson 5 David Beckham：My Side 60
Lesson 6 A Beautiful Mind 73
Unit Three Reading Essays（1） 98
Lesson 7 A Christmas Sermon On Peace 98
Lesson 8 Left for Dead 109
Lesson 9 Spell of the Rising Moon 115
Unit Four Reading Essays（2） 125
Lesson 10 Beyond Dolly：the Human Cloning Dilemma 125
Lesson 11 The Penalty of Death 138
Lesson 12 In Praise of the Humble Comma 149
Unit Five Reading Scientific And Technical Articales 161
Lesson 13 Our Picture of the Universe 161
Lesson 14 Flying and Driving after the September 185
11 Attacks 185
Lesson 15 2 Inches Between Life，Death 193
Unit Six Reading Short Stories and Novels 204
Lesson 16 Cat in the Rain 204
Lesson 17 The Stolen Party 212
Lesson 18 A Summer's Reading 217