Reading Skill:Skimming 1
1 Rcading Strategies 2
Text:Why Read Faster 5
Text:Common Faults and Eye Movements 9
2 Education 17
Text:It s Never Too Late for Success 20
Text:The Education of Benjamin Franklin 24
3 Body Language 31
Text:Signals Without Words 34
Text:The Secret Language of Barrier Signals 38
4 Animals 45
Text:Marmosets:The World s Smallest Mondeys 52
5 History 59
Text:Some Theories of History 62
Text:Abraham Lincoln Again 66
6 Language 73
Text:Vocabulary Change 76
Text:Give Up Six Words and Change Your Life 81
Reading Skill:Scanning 89
7 Space 90
Text:Has the Bright Promise of the Space Program Faded? 93
Text:Probing the Universe 98
8 Women 106
Text:Women inEducation,Sports and Media 110
Text:Women in Science 114
9 Cities 122
Text:The Unforgettable Hong Kong 126
Text:London 131
10 Cross-Cultural Communication 139
Text:A Cross-Cultural Context: Americans,Germans,and English 143
Text:Customs 147
11 Information Retrieval 154
Text:The Management of Knowledge Libraries Can Transform Communities 158
Text:Library 162
12 Environment 171
Text:Reducing Emission 174
Text:Energy and Environment 179
Reading Skill:Drawing Inferences 186
13 Medicine 187
Text:The Interaction of Body and Mind 188
Text:When to Worry About a Fever 192
14 Evolution 200
Text:Charles Darwin and the Evolutionary Revolution 201
Text:Darwin and the Beagle 205
15 Transportation 212
Text:Frank Tumer 213
Text:Can We Prevent aGrim Future for American Transportation? 218
16 Time 224
Text:The Calendar 225
Text: The Voices of Time 230
17 Television 237
Text:Daytime TV Talk Shows ---What s Their Appeal? 238
Text:Television:the Cyclops That Eats Books 243
18 Poetry 249
Text:Introduction to Poetry 249
Text:If 255
The Rose Family 257
My Candle Burns at Both Its Ends 257
I ve Known Rivers 258
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 258
Sonner29 259
In School Days 260