Unit 1 Food and Diet 1
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 1
Food:Past and Present 1
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 5
Passage 1 A New Diet Equation 5
Passage 2 Diet,Nutrition and Healthy Living 9
Passage 3 Cancer and Diet 11
Unit 2 Archaeology 15
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 15
Excavating an Ancient Egyptian Tomb 15
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 19
Passage 1 Troy Uncovered 19
Passage 2 Pompeii:Buried in Ages 22
Passage 3 Machu Picchu Archaeological Sites 25
Unit 3 Medicine 28
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 28
A Brief History of Medicine 28
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 32
Passage 1 The Controversy over Human Cloning 32
Passage 2 Natural Medicine—The Way Home 36
Passage 3 How to Build a Body Part 38
Unit 4 Space 42
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 42
When Galaxies Collide 42
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 46
Passage 1 Transient Lunar Phenomena 46
Passage 2 Water,Flash Floods and New Possibilities for Life on Mars 49
Passage 3 The Salyut Experience 52
Unit 5 History 55
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 55
Rome:From Republic to Empire 55
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 59
Passage 1 Anglo-Saxon England 59
Passage 2 The Enlightenment 62
Passage 3 Victorian Era 64
Unit 6 Biography 67
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 67
An American Storyteller:Ernest Hemingway 67
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 71
Passage 1 Johannes Kepler 71
Passage 2 Napoleon—Downfall and Legend 75
Passage 3 Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meck 77
Unit 7 Leisure Reading(Ⅲ) 81
Passage 1 Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder 81
Passage 2 The Trial of O.J.Simpson 83
Passage 3 That Lean and Hungry Look 87
Passage 4 An Excerpt from Jane Eyre 89
Unit 8 Economics 94
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 94
What Is Economics? 94
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 98
Passage 1 Adam Smith's The Wealth ofNations 98
Passage 2 Karl Marx's Economic Conceptions 101
Passage 3 John Maynard Keynes 104
Unit 9 Materials Sclence 108
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 108
A Brief History of Materials 108
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 112
Passage 1 The Age of Superstuff 112
Passage 2 Superconductor Search:a Race and an Obsession 115
Passage 3 The Future of Nanomaterials 118
Unit 10 Phllosophy 121
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 121
What Is Philosophy? 121
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 126
Passage 1 Socratic Method 126
Passage 2 Rene Descartes'Dualism and Rationalism 129
Passage 3 Brief Introduction to Kant 131
Unit 11 Law 134
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 134
An Introduction to Law 134
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 138
Passage 1 Origins of Common Law 138
Passage 2 The American Jury System:Standing in the Way of Justice? 142
Passage 3 Nuremberg Trials 145
Unit 12 Education 148
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 148
The University and Society 148
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 153
Passage 1 Set Universities Free 153
Passage 2 Requirements for Completion in U.S.Graduate Schools 156
Passage 3 Bertrand Russell on Education 159
Unit 13 Sports 163
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 163
Social Aggregates and Cultural Influences in the Rise of Sport 163
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 168
Passage 1 Good Spots 168
Passage 2 Spectator Spots Reflect America's Melting Pot 171
Passage 3 How David Stern and Michael Jordan May Have Destroyed the NBA 173
Unit 14 Leisure Reading(Ⅳ) 177
Passage 1 King Edward Ⅷ Abdicated for Love 177
Passage 2 Love Is a Fallacy(Part Ⅰ) 181
Passage 3 Love Is a Fallacy(Part Ⅱ) 187
Passage 4 An Excerpt from Death in the Afternoon 191
Unit 15 Entertainment 195
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 195
The Beatles 195
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 199
Passage 1 Is the Web the Future of Entertainment? 199
Passage 2 A History of Oscar's Ups and Downs 202
Passage 3 Soap Opera 205
Unit 16 Book Review 208
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 208
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 208
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 212
Passage 1 Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 212
Passage 2 Vanity Fair by William Thackeray 215
Passage 3 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 217
Unit 17 Computer and Internet 221
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 221
Computer Science 221
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 224
Passage 1 Life on the Net 224
Passage 2 Alienation and the Internet 227
Passage 3 Crime in Cyberspace 230
Unit 18 Architecture 233
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 233
European Architecture:History and Styles 233
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 237
Passage 1 The Castles of Europe 237
Passage 2 Islamic Architecture 240
Passage 3 Modern Architecture:Reaching for the Sky 243
Unit 19 Management 246
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 246
Management Strategies in Competing with Japan 246
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 251
Passage 1 Chaos Theory of Management 251
Passage 2 Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory 254
Passage 3 Scenario Planning 258
Unit 20 Psychology 261
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 261
Freudian Psychology and Psychoanalysis 261
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 265
Passage 1 Dreams:Night School 265
Passage 2 Narcissistic Personality Disorder 268
Passage 3 The New Word on Gossip 271
Keys 274
References 289