Unit 1 Reading for Comprehension 1
Passage One:Here Come the Supertaskers 1
Passage Two:The Great Survivor 7
Passage Three:The Strange Survival of Ink 13
Writing Practice Basic Principles of English Writing 19
Unit 2 Reading for Comprehension 28
Passage One:Roaring Tigers,Anxious Choppers 28
Passage Two:Parenting:The Case for Keeping out 35
Passage Three:Wired for Distraction? 41
Writing Practice Diction 47
Unit 3 Reading for Comprehension 56
Passage One:Marketing to Your Mind 56
Passage Two:Time Travel in the Brain 62
Passage Three:Wherever You Are,Be There Totally 67
Writing Practice Writing Effective Sentences 73
Unit 4 Reading for Comprehension 87
Passage One:The Global Jobs Challenge 87
Passage Two:The Why-Worry Generation 93
Passage Three:Where the Jobs Aren't:Grappling with Structural Unemployment 100
Writing Practice Avoid Common Errors in Writing Sentences 106
Unit 5 Reading for Comprehension 124
Passage One:Beijing Tries to Push beyond'Made in China' 124
Passage Two:Is There Life after Debt? 132
Passage Three:Taxing Sodas for a Healthier Economy? 139
Writing Practice Paragraph(1)General Remarks 146
Unit 6 Reading for Comprehension 159
Passage One:Condemned to Joy 159
Passage Two:Data Mining:How Companies Now Know Everything about You 165
Passage Three:The"Busy"Trap 175
Writing Practice Paragraph(2)Ways of Developing Different Types of Paragraph 183
Unit 7 Reading for Comprehension 201
Passage One:Japan and the United States 201
Passage Two:Asia's Lonely Hearts 206
Passage Three:The Great Brain Race 212
Writing Practice Essay(1)Process of Essay Writing 217
Unit 8 Reading for Comprehension 240
Passage One:Chinese Concept of"Face" 240
Passage Two:Vanity and Face 246
Passage Three:"Face"and Life 250
Writing Practice Essay(2)Different Genres of Essay 254
Unit 9 Reading for Comprehension 273
Passage One:Paying for Nature 273
Passage Two:Storm of the Century 280
Passage Three:Artificial Intelligence 286
Writing Practice How to Write a Research Paper 296
Unit 10 Reading for Comprehension 306
Passage One:Tucson Tragedy:Is Gun Control a Dead Issue? 306
Passage Two:Ban the Things.Ban Them All 315
Passage Three:Automated Theft Machines 320
Writing Practice How to Quote and Paraphrase 326
Unit 11 Reading for Comprehension 331
Passage One:Enjoyment,Fear and Confidence 331
Passage Two:How I Learned about the Power of Writing 340
Passage Three:A Report on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 345
Writing Practice How to Write a Summary 349
Unit 12 Reading for Comprehension 357
Passage One:What is Poverty? 357
Passage Two:How Science Could Spark a Second Green Revolution 363
Passage Three:Influenza[1]and Its Complications 368
Writing Practice How to Write an Abstract 376
Keys for Reference 386
Unit One 386
Unit Two 390
Unit Three 393
Unit Four 398
Unit Five 405
Unit Six 408
Unit Seven 413
Unit Eight 420
Unit Nine 422
Unit Ten 425
Unit Eleven 428
Unit Twelve 430
Reference 435