CONTENTS 1
TEXT A 1
Unit 1 Invitations 1
Unit 2 Table of Contents and Index 10
Unit 3 Discovering the Main Ideas 19
Unit 4 Newspaper Headlines 25
Unit 5 Reading for Specific In（rmation 32
Unit 6 Maps 39
Unit 7 Tables and Char？s 44
Unit 8 Discovering the Authors'Intentions 50
Unit 9 Blurbs 57
Unit 10 Business Letters 66
Unit 11 Understanding Relations Between Parts of a Text 74
Unit 12 Distinguishing the Main Idea from Supporting Details 79
Unit 13 Discovering the Organization of a Text 84
Unit 14 Inferencing 92
Unit 15 Predicting，Anticipating，and Inferencing 98
TEXT B 107
Unit 1 AlfredNobel—A Man of Contrasts 107
Unit 2 Does Travel Broaden The Mind？ 122
Unit 3 From Act One 139
Unit 4 Darkness at Noon 155
Unit 5 A Matter of Honor 173
Unit 6 The Greatest Invention 191
Unit 7 Daddy Tucked the Blanket 214
Unit 8 The Mass Media 231
Unit 9 The Use of Force 249
Unit 10 The Richer，the Poorer 270
Unit 11 Hearts and Hands 293
Unit 12 Emily Poist's Etiquette 308
Unit 13 Worrying 330
Unit 14 The Green Banana 349
Unit 15 TV Addiction 373
Vocabulary List 393
TEXT C 403
Unit 1 A Secret for Two 403
Unit 2 Martin Luther King—They Shot Him？ 411
Unit 3 The Midnight Visitor 417
Unit 4 Exploring Antarctica—The Frozen Continent 425
Unit 5 She Lived and 91 Others Died 431
Unit 6 Formal Letters 438
Unit 7 Parents Must Make UP Their Minds 444
Unit 8 If— 450
Unit 9 Technology and Science 457
Unit 10 Friendship- 464
Unit 11 A Man from Stratford—William Shakespeare 469
Unit 12 Smoking—Take it or Leave it 476
Unit 13 The Misery of the Shepherd Boy Slave 485
Unit 14 Drug Use and Youth 493
Unit 15 It's a Hard Life for Commuters 500