Unit One Family 1
Passage 1 10 Tips to Get Your Kids Moving 1
Passage 2 A Family Divided by Obama and McCain 5
Passage 3 Bunking In with Mom and Dad 8
Passage 4 When Caring for Aging Parents Brings Back Sibling Tensions 12
Unit Two Holiday 16
Passage 1 Thanksgiving Day Celebration in Different Places 16
Passage 2 Five Things to Do if You Aren't Celebrating Christmas 20
Passage 3 Origins of Christmas and Santa Claus 24
Passage 4 Chinese New Year 27
Unit Three Schooling 31
Passage 1 Students Covering Bigger Share of Costs of College 31
Passage 2 No Dropouts Left Behind:New Rules on Grad Rates 35
Passage 3 Should Kids Be Able to Graduate 38
after 10th Grade? 38
Passage 4 Courting Eighth-Graders 42
Unit Four Technology 46
Passage 1 Toy Compan ies Push High-Tech Robotic Toys 46
Passage 2 Technology:Fighting Noise with Antinoise 50
Passage 3 The Machines Are Listening 53
Passage 4 Touch Screens Take Over 56
Unit Five Successful People 61
Passage 1 Why Some People Almost Always Are Successful 61
Passage 2 Bill Gates Tells the Secret of His Success 65
Passage 3 Hometown Triumph for Tom Jones 68
Passage 4 Arthur Evans 71
Unit Six Business 75
Passage 1 The Crash of 2008 75
Passage 2 The Outlook for Investing in Green Energy 79
Passage 3 Motown Is Bleak as Big Three Could Become Two 82
Passage 4 How to Fix a Flat 86
Unit Seven Environment 90
Passage 1 Coastal Dead Zones Are Growing 90
Passage 2 Fossil Fuels'Hidden Cost Is in Billions 94
Passage 3 Exposing the Myth of Clean Coal Power 97
Passage 4 Beijing Smog Cleanup:Has It Worked? 101
Unit Eight War and Defence 105
Passage 1 NATO's Road Map to Nowhere 105
Passage 2 Behind America's Shield 109
Passage 3 Pelosi's Defense of War on Gaza Raises Concerns 112
Passage 4 In Defence of the Envi ronment,Putting Poverty to the Sword 116
参考答案 120