Unit 1 1
Text A Is Your Dog Smarter than a 2-year-old? 1
Text B India's Fed-up Middle Class 6
Text C Automated Theft Machines 10
Text D The Climate Extremists 14
Unit 2 18
Text A Google's TV Innovation 18
Text B Publishers Favor E-books on Their Own Terms 23
Text C Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records 28
Text D The Making of a Nation—The 1970s and 80s Were a Period of Change in American Society 33
Unit 3 38
Text A Boston,Free and Easy and Campus-oriented 38
Text B The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction 43
Text C What If the China Bubble Bursts 49
Text D Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address 54
Unit 4 60
Text A Tiger Moms:Is Tough Parenting Really the Answer? 60
Text B Andy Rooney Dies at 92 67
Text C Gender in Politics 71
Text D A Howling Success.Encounters with Yellowstone's Wolves 76
Unit 5 82
Text A Attitude Is Everything 82
Text B Five Things You Can Start Doing Today to Change Your Life 85
Text C How I Gave Up Smoking 90
Text D You Can Beat Loneliness 95
Unit 6 101
Text A The Power of Actions—an Inspiring Story 101
Text B Young and Carefree?Plan for the Sunset Years 104
Text C Susan Sontag:One of America's Most Influential 20th-century Thinkers 109
Text D Where Children Discover Their Inner Child 115
Unit 7 121
Text A The Quest for Jobs 121
Text B Asia's Lonely Hearts 125
Text C World on Wi-Fire 129
Text D Angst（焦虑）for the Educated 134
Unit 8 138
Text A What's Behind the Solyndra Scandal? 138
Text B Health Care:The Next Economic Crisis 143
Text C Home Is Where the School Is 148
Text D Rushdie Runs Afoul of Web's Real-name Police 152
Key 157