CONTENTS 1
UNIT 1 Computer 1
Intensive Reading Cyberpromotion:Communicating with Customer Online 1
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Artificial Speech 7
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Screensavers—Friend or Foe? 10
UNIT 2 Medicine and Health 16
Intensive Reading Resurrected in Another Way? 16
Extensive Reading Ⅰ A Study on Virus Infection 22
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Why We Are Fat? 25
UNIT 3 Children 33
Intensive Reading Good Kids,Bad Habits 33
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Does Your Child Have a Learning Disability? 39
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Help Your Child Make Friends 44
UNIT 4 American Culture 50
Intensive Reading Americans and Physical Fitness 50
Extensive Reading Ⅰ American Engagement and Wedding 55
Extensive Reading Ⅱ An Usual Black Dress 58
UNIT 5 Life Trend 63
Intensive Reading People See E-Shopping Advantages 63
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Pay Phones Now Facing a Dim Future 70
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Who Put the Ring in Your Cell Phone? 77
UNIT 6 Sports 84
Intensive Reading An End to All NBA-Talent Team? 84
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Three Sports to Be Expelled? 91
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Euro Champions Fight Back 96
Intensive Reading Music 105
UNIT 7 Art 105
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Film 110
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Museums 113
UNIT 8 Animals 121
Intensive Reading Animal Emotions 121
Extensive Reading Ⅰ The Chimpanzee and Man 127
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Animal Musicians 130
UNIT 9 Popular Science 139
Intensive Reading Depleting the Earth 139
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Artificial Intelligence 145
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Cloning a Human 148
Intensive Reading Whose Lead Should I Follow? 154
UNIT 10 Women 154
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Discrimination Towards Women 160
Extensive Reading Ⅱ New Ways ofBusiness Bring Chances for Women 164
UNIT 11 Prejudice and Discrimination 173
Intensive Reading Women at the Top? 173
Extensive Reading Ⅰ Productive Aging in the 21 st Century 178
Extensive Reading Ⅱ Changing Personal Patterns of Prejudice 181
UNIT 12 Social Problems 187
Intensive Reading Road Courtesy Is Called for 187
Extensive Reading Ⅰ The Number-Two Killer 192
Extensive Reading Ⅱ High-technology Threat 196
Keys 201