Unit 1 Text-1 Personal Benefits of Foreign Language Study 2
Text-2 How to Learn a Language 7
Text-3 9 Highly Effective Study Habits 11
Text-4 What Is Intelligence,Anyway? 16
Unit 2 Text-1 When Summer Found Its Place in My Heart 20
Text-2 The Greatest Gift a Dad Can Give His Daughter 25
Text-3 It's More Important to Be Kind Than Clever 30
Text-4 A Game ofLight and Shade 34
Unit 3 Text-1 Text Generation Gap：U R 2 Old 38
Text-2 The Disappearing Generation Gap 43
Text-3 Fred's Modern Rite of Passage 48
Text-4 The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget 53
Unit 4 Text-1 Once upon a Time There Were No Cell Phones 60
Text-2 The Problem with Easy Technology 64
Text-3 E-mail Is for Old People 68
Text-4 The Fun and Excitement of"Reality" 71
Unit 5 Text-1 How Beethoven Overcame His Deafness to Become a Great Composer 76
Text-2 Wilma Rudolph,1940-1994："The Fastest Woman in the Word" 81
Text-3 Overcoming Odds 86
Text-4 As Dream Comes True 90
Unit 6 Text-1 How Social Media Is Affecting the Way We Speak and Write 94
Text-2 Is Virtual Mobility Replacing Physical Mobility? 98
Text-3 The MySpace and Facebook Generation 102
Text-4 Txt Msg Phenomenon：RU in2 It? 106
Unit 7 Text-1 Why English? 110
Text-2 Does Twitter Have It Out for the English Language? 113
Text-3 How English Evolved into a Global Language 118
Text-4 Reading—the Most Important Way to Learn English 122
Unit 8 Text-1 Tracking the Pollution amid the Remote 128
Text-2 After Dark,the Dirty Work at Disneyland Begins 132
Text-3 Rubbish Disposal 136
Text-4 Industry and the Environment 139
Appendix Key to Comprehension Exercises 142