Unit Ⅰ Language and Language Learning 1
1．Magazines for Fans and Fan Magazines 1
2．The Language of Social Occasions 5
3．Animal Language 9
4．Study and Self-disciplines 14
5．The Method for Reading Non-fiction 18
6．The Use of Organizational Clues in Reading or Listening 22
7．Our First Words 26
8．How to Make a Good Summary 30
Unit Ⅱ Science 34
1．The Science of Ecology 34
2．El Nino—We've Had Worse 38
3．The New Awareness Toward Energy Resources 42
4．Gravity Wave Telescope for WA 46
5．The Female Mosquito 50
6．How Animals Hear 54
7．Left Hand 58
8．Blue Whales 62
Unit Ⅲ Technology 67
1．In-Car Entertainment 67
2．Paper and Its Uses 71
3．Space Colony 75
4．Artificial Cornea Sees the Light of Day 79
5．Underwater Residence 83
6．The Planemakers 87
7．Dried Food 92
8．Transportation in the United States 96
Unit Ⅳ Economics and Business 100
1．Plastic Card—Not Money 100
2．Money and Price 104
3．Insurance of Property 108
4．Accident and Health Insurance 112
5．Tips on Doing Business with the Arabs 116
6．How to Complain 120
7．Economic Growth 124
8．Public Works Projects 129
Unit Ⅴ Ecology,Environment and Geology 133
1．Michigan's Marching Dunes 133
2．New York'Big Ditch 138
3．Carrifran Wildwood 143
4．Spelunking 148
5．Cave Life 152
6．Cyberspace Going out Space 156
7．The National Trust 161
8．Curtains Part on Ancient Star Nurseries 165
Unit Ⅵ Customs 169
1．Filipino Wedding Traditions 169
2．The Buddhist Religion 174
3．Modern Life and the English Language 178
4．Some Customs of Eskimos 182
5．The Sacred"Rac" 186
6．How Americans Eat and Drink 190
7．Culture Difference 194
8．Views of Working-Class Wives Toward Their Husbands 198
Unit Ⅶ Social Problems 202
1．AIDS and Drugs 202
2．Treatment of Gypsies in the United Kingdom 206
3．Control Units 210
4．Hunger 215
5．The World Food Programme 219
6．The Problems of Youth 224
7．Be Smooth and Polite 229
8．U.S.Cities:Past and Present 233
Unit Ⅷ Music,History and Politics 237
1．Jazz 237
2．Beethoven 242
3．The Theatre 246
4．A Handful of History 250
5．America's Luckiest Stamp Find 255
6．Women's Prison Goes Pop 259
7．Detectives'Lives—Fact and Fantasy 263
8．In the Kingdom of the Busiest Creature 267
Unit Ⅸ Health,Medicine and Psychology 271
1．Keeping Fit 271
2．Acupuncture 275
3．Jogging 279
4．East-West Drinking Disparity 283
5．EchinaceaA—A Snake Oil Remedy that May Actually Work 287
6．Unhappiness Is Not a Disease 292
7．Four Temperaments 298
8．How Man Is Different from Other Animals 302
Unit Ⅹ Miscellaneous 306
1．Books 306
2．Man of the Twentieth Century 311
3．The English Countryside 315
4．Australopithecus Afarensis 320
5．Adrift Alone in the Cosmos 324
6．Missile Threat Looming 329
7．Report:Clinic Booming Suspect Seen 334
8．No Sweet Talk About Sugar 339
Answer Key 344