CONTENTS 1
UNIT 1 Modern Communication and Life 1
Intensive Reading For Conversation,Press 1 1
Fast Reading Dial 911? 6
Extensive Reading The Web Lifestyle 9
UNIT 2 Education in China and the West 14
Intensive Reading The Differences Between Children's Education in Different Countries 14
Fast Reading Learn Business Skills at School 19
Extensive Reading ETS Takes Action Against Copying 22
UNIT 3 Animal Culture 28
Intensive Reading Animal Education 28
Fast Reading Do Animals Think? 33
Extensive Reading Animal Language 36
UNIT 4 Advertising 40
Intensive Reading Global Challenges 40
Fast Reading Advertisements 44
Extensive Reading Should Doctors Be Allowed to Advertise? 48
UNIT 5 Computer and Internet 53
Intensive Reading The Essential Problem in a Computerized Age 53
Fast Reading The Uses and the Development ofthe Computer 58
Extensive Reading You've Got Face 61
UNIT 6 Sports 65
Intensive Reading Spots Violence 65
Fast Reading The Olympic Games Going Astray 70
Extensive Reading The Future ofthe Football 73
Intensive Reading High-Tech's Problem 79
UNIT 7 Technology and Environment 79
Fast Reading Silent Spring—a Warning to Mankind 84
Extensive Reading Industry and the Environment 87
UNIT 8 Nature 92
Intensive Reading Kartchner Caverns Opens 92
Fast Reading San Diego Conservation Program 96
Extensive Reading Mushrooms 99
UNIT 9 Marriage 103
Intensive Reading Two-Career Marriage 103
Fast Reading The Young People's Marriage Attitude 108
Extensive Reading To Win at Marriage,Learn to Lose 111
Intensive Reading History ofthe Basketball Game 115
UNIT 10 People and Sports 115
Fast Reading King of F1:Michael Schumacher 121
Extensive Reading The Chinese Soccer Star Sun Wen:Got Father's Encouragement 124
UNIT 11 Driving and the Driver 128
Intensive Reading Traffic Laws in the United States 128
Fast Reading Don't Drive Tired 134
Extensive Reading London Taxi Drivers 137
UNIT 12 Anecdotes of the Three Scientists 142
Intensive Reading Galileo Galilei 142
Fast Reading Isaac Newton 148
Extensive Reading Albert Einstein 152
Keys 156