目录 5
前言 5
Unit 1 AWorld inAction 5
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 5
Section 2．Reading:Hostile Environment Training 9
Section 3．Speaking Up 14
Section 4．Writing 14
Transcripts for the Exercises 15
Key 19
Unit 2 The Inner Self 20
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 20
Section 2．Reading:Going It Alone Won't Work 24
Section 4．Writing 28
Section 3．Speaking Up 28
Transcripts for the Exercises 29
Key 33
Unit 3 Well-Connected 34
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 34
Section 2．Reading:The Real Losers Are the Poor 38
Section 3．Speaking Up 44
Section 4．Writing 44
Transcripts for the Exercises 45
Key 49
Unit 4 When,Where and How？ 50
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 50
Section 2．Reading:Monkey's Best Friend 54
Section 3．Speaking Up 59
Section 4．Writing 60
Transcripts for the Exercises 61
Key 64
Unit 5 Putting the Horse Before the Cart 65
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 65
Section 2．Reading:The End of the Oil Age 69
Section 3．Speaking Up 75
Section 4．Writing 75
Transcripts for the Exercises 76
Key． 80
Unit 6 The Other Side of the Coin 81
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 81
Section 2．Reading:Carmakers See the Future in China 85
Section 3．Speaking Up 89
Section 4．Writing 90
Transcripts for the Exercises 90
Key 94
Unit 7 Lending an Ear to Numbers 95
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 95
Section 2．Reading:Sustaining Our Future 99
Section 3．Speaking Up 103
Section 4．Writing 104
Transcripts for the Exercises 104
Key 108
Unit 8 Being Indirect and Probable 109
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 109
Section 2．Reading:Rethinking Protectionism 113
Section 3．Speaking Up 118
Section 4．Writing 119
Transcripts for the Exercises 119
Key 123
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 124
Unit 9 Speaking in Quotes 124
Section 2．Reading:Light Heavy Lifters 128
Section 3．Speaking Up 132
Section 4．Writing 132
Transcripts for the Exercises 133
Key 136
Unit 10 Speech Acts 137
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 137
Section 2．Reading:Justice Takes Its Time for an Innocent Man 141
Section 3．Speaking Up 145
Section 4．Writing 146
Transcripts for the Exercises 146
Key 150
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 151
Unit 11 Stretchingthe Limits 151
Section 2．Reading:The Child Is Father to the Patient 155
Section 3．Speaking Up 159
Section 4．Writing 160
Transcripts for the Exercises 161
Key 163
Unit 12 Getting the Gist 165
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 165
Section 2．Reading:Soul of a Newer Machine 167
Section 3．Speaking Up 170
Section 4．Writing 171
Transcripts for the Exercises 171
Unit 13 Traveling to Other Lands 175
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 175
Section 2．Reading:Budapest's Pride of Palace 179
Section 4．Writing 184
Section 3．Speaking Up 184
Transcripts for the Exercises 185
Key 190
Unit 14 The Flowers 191
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 191
Section 2．Reading:Poppy Glut Brings Crash in Opium Prices 195
Section 3．Speaking Up 199
Section 4．Writing 200
Transcripts for the Exercises 201
Key 205
Unit 15 In Search of Life's Origin 206
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 206
Section 2．Reading:Reinventing Biology 210
Section 3．Speaking Up 216
Section 4．Writing 216
Transcripts for the Exercises 217
Key 222
Unit 16 The Little Guy 223
Section 1．Listening Comprehension 223
Section 2．Reading:Cheap Gas 227
Section 3．Speaking Up 231
Section 4．Writing 232
Transcripts for the Exercises 233
Key 237
Practice Tests 239
Test 1 240
Test 2 258
Test 3 277
Test 4 295
Test 5 314