Unit 1 Environment and Protection 1
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)What Causes Global Warming? 3
Passage 2(Fast Reading)Creative Recycling Tips to Help the Environment 6
Passage 3(Appreciation)Winter 11
Unit 2 Learning and Growth 13
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)The First Four Minutes 15
Passage 2(Fast Reading)From Dumb English to Smart English 18
Passage 3(Appreciation)Just for Today 23
Unit 3 Information and Technology 25
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)Study:TV Makes Learning Less Efficient 27
Passage 2(Fast Reading)What Your Inbox Says about You 31
Passage 3(Appreciation)Growing Roots 36
Unit 4 Health and Life 39
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)Excessive Sugar Can Begin a Vicious Energy 41
Passage 2(Fast Reading)Government Changes to Environment Can Make Us Fit 44
Passage 3(Appreciation)T.S.Eliot 49
Unit 5 Cross-Culture 51
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)Aspects of English Life:Class Delineation 53
Passage 2(Fast Reading)10 Smart Money Moves to Make in Tough Times 57
Passage 3(Appreciation)Knowledge and Virtue 62
Unit 6 People and Their Stories 65
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)Unexpected Wonder—Jeans 67
Passage 2(Fast Reading)The Mystery of the Mayas 70
Passage 3(Appreciation)How to Grow Old 75
Unit 7 Science and Nature 77
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)Brain Pills Are Coming Soon 79
Passage 2(Fast Reading)On the Phone,Better to Be Heard and Not Seen 83
Passage 3(Appreciation)Thoughts for a New Year 87
Unit 8 Animal World 89
Passage 1(Intensive Reading)How Spiders"Fly"Hundreds of Miles 91
Passage 2(Fast Reading)Heroes:Dog Attack Rescue 94
Passage 3(Appreciation)Franklin D.Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech(Excerpt) 99