Unit One Traditional Chinese Culture 1
Text A The Language of Painting 1
Text B Limitless Energy 6
Unit Two Campus Life 13
Text A Take This Fish and Look at It 13
Text B Another School Year—What For? 17
Unit Three Career 23
Text A Your Flexible Friends 23
Text B Words That Get You Hired 29
Unit Four Economy 36
Text A The Decoupling Debate 36
Text B Three Bears That Ate Goldilocks Economy 42
Unit Five The Familiar Essay(Ⅰ) 48
Text A Solve That Problem—With Humor 48
Text B The Crooked Streets 54
Unit Six Gender 59
Text A When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is"a Waste of Time" 59
Text B Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father 65
Unit Seven Education 70
Text A A Matter of Degrees 70
Text B How to Build a Student for the 21st Century 77
Unit Eight Emotional Life 84
Text A Friendship:The Laws of Attraction 84
Text B When to Choose Is to Lose 92
Unit Nine Science 98
Text A The Biggest Extinction on Earth 98
Text B Why Women Live Longer than Men? 104
Unit Ten The Familiar Essay(Ⅱ) 110
Text A Fame 110
Text B The Vice of Punctuality 117
Unit Eleven Short Story 123
Text A The Shocks of Doom 123
Text B Luck 131
Unit Twelve Environment Protection 137
Text A The Price of Oil 137
Text B Eco Fashion?A World Consumed by Guilt 144