CONTENTS 1
1 How to Study 1
Intensive Reading How to Read Essays You Must Analyze 1
Fast Reading The Need to Improve Your Reading 5
Extensive Reading Learning to Read and Write 6
2 Love and Marriage 11
Intensive Reading Together Again 11
Fast Reading Love Renewed 15
Extensive Reading Why We Love Who We Love 17
3 Sports 22
Intensive Reading The Price of a Dream 22
Fast Reading Tennis 26
Extensive Reading Air Jordan Walks away in Philadelphia 27
4 Celebrities 31
Intensive Reading Look Who's on Top 31
Fast Reading Celebrity Power Failure 34
Extensive Reading The Waitress 36
5 China's First Manned Spaceflight 40
Intensive Reading China's First Spaceman Yang Liwei 40
Fast Reading China Declares Manned Spaceflight Successful 46
Extensive Reading China Successfully Launches Its First Manned Spacecraft 48
6 Science and Education 54
Intensive Reading How to Be a Scientist 54
Fast Reading Balance in Education 58
Extensive Reading Wanted: College Students 59
Intensive Reading Hints for the Interview 64
7 Job 64
Fast Reading Japanese Women Are Excluded from Professional Jobs 67
Extensive Reading Study,Earn and Prosper 69
8 Tradition and Custom 74
Intensive Reading Tipping in the West 74
Fast Reading Informal Americans 77
Extensive Reading Teen Dates 79
9 Life's Unusual Gifts 83
Intensive Reading A Real Bargain 83
Fast Reading Afghan Girl in Photo Located 87
Extensive Reading Finding the Faces ofthe Future 89
Intensive Reading TV and Radio Are Amusing Us Silly 94
10 Technology Changes Life 94
Fast Reading Cupid Goes High-tech 99
Extensive Reading Too Much in Love with New Things 101
11 The Olympic Games 106
Intensive Reading The Olympic Games 106
Fast Reading IOC Gives Beijing the Thumbs up 110
Extensive Reading Beijing Unveils 2008 Logo 112
12 Health and Disease 117
Intensive Reading What Is SARS 117
Fast Reading BestSleep Hours 121
Extensive Reading WHO Officials to Visit China 123
Keys 128