Unit 1 Education 6
Part 1 Reading Text Chinese Learning Strategies in the 21st Century 6
Part 2 Reading Skill Retaining Concepts and Organizing Facts 14
Part 3 Reading Practice 16
Part 4 Home Reading Changes to Come in U.S.Education 21
Unit 2 Values 28
Part 1 Reading Text Career Move 28
Part 2 Reading Skill Understanding the Major Details 36
Part 3 Reading Practice 38
Part 4 Home Reading Sumi Nakano 43
Unit 3 Generation Gap 50
Part 1 Reading Text The Daddy Prize 50
Part 2 Reading Skill Summarizing 57
Part 3 Reading Practice 60
Part 4 Home Reading The Apple Tree 65
Unit 4 The Virtual World 70
Part 1 Reading Text Web Magazines"Connect"Young Minorities 70
Part 2 Reading Skill Making a Judgment 76
Part 3 Reading Practice 81
Part 4 Home Reading Keep in Touch with the Virtual World 86
Test 1(Units 1-4) 91
Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles 102
Part 1 Reading Text My Miraculous Life 102
Part 2 Reading Skill Denotation and Connotation 109
Part 3 Reading Practice 111
Part 4 Home Reading A Bad Principal Taught Me a Good Lesson 116
Unit 6 Women,Half the Sky 122
Part 1 Reading Text Key Facts on Women—owned Businesses in Sweden 122
Part 2 Reading Skill Reading Between the Lines(instructions and suggestions) 129
Part 3 Reading Practice 135
Part 4 Home Reading Female Alumnae Speak to Students 141
Unit 7 Learning about English 148
Part 1 Reading Text British English,American English,the Same Language? 148
Part 2 Reading Skill Seeing the Writer's Purpose 156
Part 3 Reading Practice 158
Part 4 Home Reading The Changing Language 163
Unit 8 Protecting Our Environment 168
Part 1 Reading Text Ecological Improvement and Environmental Protection in Tibet 168
Part 2 Reading Skill Identifying the Author's Attitude or Opinion 175
Part 3 Reading Practice 177
Part 4 Home Reading A Day in the Life of a Health—conscious Environmentalist 182
Test 2(Units 5-8) 188
Answer Key 201