Unit 1 Career Planning 1
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 1
Career Planning 1
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 5
Passage 1 Portfolio Career 5
Passage 2 What Employers Will Want from You? 8
Passage 3 Career Fit 10
Unit 2 Geography 13
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 13
Geography of the Sea 13
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 17
Passage 1 Mediterranean Sea 17
Passage 2 Unique Geography of Australia 20
Passage 3 Grand Canyon 22
Unit 3 Health 24
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 24
The"Milieu Interieur"(The Environment Within) 24
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 27
Passage 1 Three Kinds of Fatigue 27
Passage 2 Better to Be Fat and Fit than Skinny and Unfit 30
Passage 3 Promotion of Health and Longevity 33
Unit 4 Biology 36
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 36
Darwin and the Theory of Evolution 36
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 40
Passage 1 The Race to Discover the Genetic Code 40
Passage 2 The Biodiversity of the Rainforest 43
Passage 3 Man and Apes:Are We Really So Different? 45
Unit 5 Travelogue 47
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 47
Marco Polo and His Travels 47
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 51
Passage 1 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 51
Passage 2 American Notes by Charles Dickens 54
Passage 3 Travels with Charley:In Search of America by John Steinbeck 57
Unit 6 Energy 59
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 59
The Permanent Energy Crisis 59
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 63
Passage 1 The Master of Wind 63
Passage 2 Energy Efficiency 66
Passage 3 Hybrid Fiction 68
Unit 7 Leisure Reading(Ⅰ) 71
Passage 1 What Do Women Really Want? 71
Passage 2 Men Are like Rubber Bands 73
Passage 3 Women Are like Waves 75
Passage 4 After Twenty Years 78
Unit 8 Art 83
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 83
How Art Functions 83
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 86
Passage 1 The Impressionists 86
Passage 2 Leonardo's Mona Lisa 89
Passage 3 Keys to Successful Art 92
Unit 9 Environment 94
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 94
Abiotic and Biotic Factors in Environment 94
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 98
Passage 1 Can We Save the World by 2015? 98
Passage 2 Environmental Waste Solutions for an Ever-changing World 101
Passage 3 Creating a Cleaning Environment 104
Unit 10 International Trade 107
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 107
Free Trade 107
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 111
Passage 1 Merchants to Multinationals:British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 111
Passage 2 Protectionism(Part Ⅰ) 115
Passage 3 Protectionism(Part Ⅱ) 117
Unit 11 Animals 120
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 120
Animal Rights—How We Treat Animals Reflects Who We Are 120
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 124
Passage 1 Smart,Curious,Ticklish.Rats? 124
Passage 2 Several Interesting Traits of Birds 127
Passage 3 A Big Win for Polar Bears? 129
Unit 12 Marriage 133
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 133
A Review of Coontz's Marriage,a History 133
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 136
Passage 1 On Happiness in Marriage 136
Passage 2 Marital Violence 139
Passage 3 American Society Favors Marriage 142
Unit 13 Industry and Agriculture 144
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 144
American Industry and War 144
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 148
Passage 1 Green Revolution 148
Passage 2 Financial Crisis Adds to Pressure on Auto Industry 151
Passage 3 Organic Farming 154
Unit 14 Leisure Reading(Ⅱ) 157
Passage 1 I Want a Wife 157
Passage 2 Chaplin and Modern Times 159
Passage 3 How Obama Happened:The Real Story 163
Passage 4 An Excerpt from Gone with the Wind 166
Unit 15 Resources 171
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 171
Water Crisis 171
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 175
Passage 1 Risky Race for Minerals 175
Passage 2 Palm Oil Biodiesel 178
Passage 3 The Oceans—Man's Last Resource 180
Unit 16 Finance 183
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 183
Financial Tsunami 183
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 187
Passage 1 Warren Buffett 187
Passage 2 Stock Market 191
Passage 3 Barings Bank Collapses 194
Unit 17 Anthropology 197
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 197
An Overview of Anthropology 197
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 202
Passage 1 Human Origins 202
Passage 2 Civilization's Rise and Descent 205
Passage 3 Finding Lucy and Other Fossil Treasures 207
Unit 18 Sociology 211
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 211
Sociology 211
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 216
Passage 1 Dirty Work 216
Passage 2 The Tragedy of Old Age in America 219
Passage 3 Insights into Gender Differences 222
Unit 19 Speech 225
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 225
Roman Oratory 225
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 229
Passage 1 Myths About Public Speaking 229
Passage 2 Winston Churchill's Speech:Blood,Toil,Tears and Sweat 232
Passage 3 Albert Einstein's Speech:Peace in the Atomic Era 234
Unit 20 Literature 237
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 237
Shakespeare's Plays 237
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 241
Passage 1 Romanticism in Literature 241
Passage 2 The Lost Generation 244
Passage 3 Detective Fiction 247
Keys 250
References 265