Unit1 2
Text-1 Preparing for College:Insights from My Freshman Year 2
Text-2 Tips for First-Year Students 6
Text-3 Why Young Americans Want a College Degree 10
Text-4 Visitas Memories 14
Unit2 18
Text-1 How Going to College Made Me Discover My Real Friends 18
Text-2 Crimson Ties 21
Text-3 Black and White 25
Text-4 Friendship 28
Unit3 32
Text-1 Some Facts about Stephen Hawking 32
Text-2 5 Lessons Steve Jobs Left Behind 37
Text-3 What Would Happen If All Satellites Stopped Working? 42
Text-4 The Scientific Method 47
Unit4 54
Text-1 America Is More Patchwork Quilt Than Melting Pot.... 54
Text-2 Andrew Carnegie 58
Text-3 Nicola Tesla 62
Text-4 I.M.Pei 66
Unit5 70
Text-1 What I Learned in the Shoe Store 70
Text-2 The Waitress 75
Text-3 The Face in the Window 78
Text-4 The Death Car 82
Unit6 86
Text-1 My Love Story,before Social Networks 86
Text-2 Internet Love Can Work 90
Text-3 7 Very Unique Movies about Unrequited Love for Valentine's Day 93
Text-4 Home Is Where the Heart Is 97
Unit7 102
Text-1 Mutingthe Mozart Effect 102
Text-2 Humans Are More Than Clever Apes?Don't Make Me Laugh 106
Text-3 Natural and Applied Science 110
Text-4 Do Animals Think? 115
Unit8 120
Text-1 Learning Curves on the Career Path 120
Text-2 What Is the Future of Technology in Education 125
Text-3 Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's 129
Text-4 Continuing Education Classes 132
Appendix 136
Key to Comprehension Exercises 136