Unit One Family Life 1
Passage 1 Precious First Born:Mothers Admit They Really Do Favour First Child 1
Passage 2 A Promise of Flowers 3
Passage 3 Chinese Culture:Role of Family 5
Passage 4 What I Want for You—A Letter Obama Wrote to His Daughter 7
Unit Two CUlture and Education 11
Passage 1 A Decline in IQ of the Generations after 1990s? 12
Passage 2 China Announces Plans for Universal Health Care 14
Passage 3 UCLA Course Teaches High School Students Language of Their Parents and Grandparents 16
Passage 4 Flu Drugs'Unhelpful'in Children 19
Unit Three Sports and Leisure 23
Passage 1 Golf Set to Join Olympics 23
Passage 2 The Early History of Wimbledon 26
Passage 3 Mutu's Case Tests Sport's Private Courts 28
Passage 4 Does Exercise Really Keep Us Healthy? 30
Unit Four Travel and Entertainment 34
Passage 1 Worth the Walk 34
Passage 2 Beijing:Need to Know 37
Passage 3 Americans on Vacation 39
Passage 4 Essential(Healthy)Travel Tips 41
Unit Five Mass Media 45
Passage 1 Teens,Television,and Depression 46
Passage 2 Internet 48
Passage 3 E-book 50
Passage 4 British Daily Papers 52
Unit Six Wealth and Health 56
Passage 1 Swine Flu Kills Dozens in Britain 56
Passage 2 Experts Criticize Tobacco Control System 59
Passage 3 Drinking Blamed for Oral Cancer Rise 61
Passage 4 Ten Facts about Women's Health 63
Unit Seven Animal World 67
Passage 1 Chimpanzees'Hunt Using Spears' 67
Passage 2 Extinction Hits'Whole Families' 70
Passage 3 Wood Harvest Puts Pandas at Risk 72
Passage 4 Animal Emotions 75
Unit Eight Social Ethics 80
Passage 1 SINDIs—The 21st Century Divorced Women 80
Passage 2 Christian Attitudes to Same-sex Marriage 82
Passage 3 "Moral Vacuum"in Science Lessons 85
Passage 4 How to Save the Teens—Why Do Some Teens Behave Recklessly? 88
附录1 参考答案 92
附录2 快速阅读测试自我评价表 96
附录3 阅读效率进展表 98