Unit 1 1
Text A How to Talk About the World 1
Text B The Quest for the Fleece of Gold 5
Unit 2 13
Text A Your Name Is Your Destiny 13
Text B The Diary of a Young Girl 16
Unit 3 28
Text A The Martian Crown Jewels 28
Text B The Martian Crown Jewels 36
Unit 4 43
Text A The Open Window 43
Text B Robin Hood's Escape 48
Text C A New Attitude to Gratitude 51
Unit 5 55
Text A Living in Colonial America(1) 55
Text B Living in Colonial America(2) 64
Unit 6 71
Text A Boxing Legalized Murder? 71
Text B Advertising:What is it? 77
Text C Pollution Is a Dirty Word 81
Unit 7 85
Text A Pity for a Stranger 85
Text B Procrastination:What You Can Do about It When You Get Around to It 89
Text C My Struggle for an Ednuation 94
Unit 8 100
Text A Is a Race of Robots Possible? 100
Text B A Launch for the Little Guy Satellite Technology Can Now Help Real People 105
Text C Tech Best Bets 108
Unit 9 114
Text A American Values and Social Problems:A Consensus View 114
Text B A Slander 121
Unit 10 125
Text A Mari Holden 125
Text B Ho Chi Minh City An Intriguing Mix of Past and Present 129
Text C Should the Recommendation System Be kept? 132
Unit 11 139
Text A Jane Eyer(Ⅰ) 139
Text B Jane Eyre(Ⅱ) 149
Unit 12 158
Text A Family Patterns Today 158
Text B Labels Are Out 163
Text C A Surprise Catch 168
Unit 13 174
Text A Creative Justice 174
Text B Getting a Better Job in Changing Times 179
Unit 14 184
Text A Coins and Currency 184
Text B What's Your Best/Time of Day? 191
Unit 15 195
Text A Nike,from Small Beginnings to World Giant 195
Text B University Days 200
Text C The World's Largest Passenger Plane Is A Technological Miracle 205
Unit 16 209
Text A The Ephemera—An Emblem of Human Life 209
Text B Education For Democracy 212
Text C The Sojourner 216
Unit 17 225
Text A Children Learn to Kill in a Moral Dead Zone 225
Text B Ride of Their Lives 229
Unit 18 234
Text A By Their Colours You Shall Know Them 234
Text B Looking Nice 239
Unit 19 244
Text A After Twenty Years 244
Text B A Clean Break with Bad Habits 248
Text C Biological Clocks 252