Unit 1 College Education 1
Passage A The Value of a College Education 2
Passage B Another Education in University 5
Reading Skills Skimming 8
Supplementary Reading Universities and Their Function 10
Unit 2 Happiness 13
Passage A Happiness Index 14
Passage B Who Are the Happiest People? 17
Reading Skills Scanning 20
Supplementary Reading Black Beauty(Excerpt) 22
Unit 3 Sources of Beauty 27
Passage A Is This Seat Taken? 28
Passage B Reach for the Light 31
Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Context 34
Supplementary Reading The Old Man and the Sea(Excerpt) 36
Unit 4 Build up Blogs 41
Passage A Tips on Writing Content for Your Blog 42
Passage B Comments?Comments...Comments! 45
Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Word-building 49
Supplementary Reading Ten Things I've Learned about Blogging 51
Unit 5 Kids and Family 55
Passage A The Ring 56
Passage B Driving Lesson 59
Reading Skills Recognizing Words That Connect Ideas 63
Supplementary Reading King Grisly-Beard(Excerpt) 64
Comprehensive Practice Ⅰ 69
Unit 6 Touch of Life 75
Passage A Everyday Is a Gift 76
Passage B Letting Go of Yesterday 79
Reading Skills Getting Ideas Sorted out by Critical Thinking 82
Supplementary Reading Detour to Romance 85
Unit 7 Friendship 89
Passage A In Praise of Best Friends 90
Passage B A Friend Is 94
Reading Skills Searching for the Main Idea 97
Supplementary Reading Encounters with Manners(Excerpt) 98
Unit 8 Biography 103
Passage A Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs(Excerpt) 104
Passage B Bill Gates in His Boyhood 107
Reading Skills Understanding References and Making Inferences 111
Supplementary Reading The Master of Investment:Warren Buffett 112
Unit 9 Sports 115
Passage A Coming a Long Way,in More Ways than One 116
Passage B The Football Game 119
Reading Skills Recognizing Patterns 123
Supplementary Reading Around the World in Eighty Days(Excerpt) 126
Unit 10 Health 131
Passage A A Simple Guide to Eating out Without Putting on Weight 132
Passage B Vitamin Supplements—A Pill Is Not Always the Answer 136
Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions 139
Supplementary Reading Caught in the Web of the Internet 140
Comprehensive Practice Ⅱ 145
Key to Exercises 153