Unit 1 1
Passage 1 A Good Menu 1
Passage 2 Sound 3
Passage 3 Don't Be Afraid to Trust 5
Passage 4 Small Schools Rising 7
Unit 2 11
Passage 1 Gorilla 11
Passage 2 What's the Greatest Wonder in the World？ 13
Passage 3 Heart of Gold…Olympians Find Ways to Give to Others 16
Passage 4 Why Integrity Matters 18
Unit 3 23
Passage 1 Animals Can Sense Natural Disasters 23
Passage 2 Water Consumption in Shanghai 26
Passage 3 British Pub Customs 29
Passage 4 British Cuisine：The Best ofOld and New 31
Unit 4 36
Passage 1 The Uniqueness of Finger-Prints 36
Passage 2 The Man on the Moon 38
Passage 3 The Generation Gap 41
Passage 4 A Grassroots Remedy 43
Unit 5 47
Passage 1 Protecting Copyright 47
Passage 2 The Earth 49
Passage 3 A Good Heart to Lean on 52
Passage 4 Caught in the Web 54
Unit 6 59
Passage 1 Overhead Bridges 59
Passage 2 The Giant Squid in the Deep Ocean 62
Passage 3 Horrible Interview Experience 64
Passage 4 Colleges Taking Another Look at the Value of Merit-Based Aid 66
Unit 7 71
Passage 1 Credit-Card（信用卡）Fraud Online 71
Passage 2 Contact Among People 74
Passage 3 Successful English Learnings 77
Passage 4 How Do You See Diversity？ 79
Unit 8 84
Passage 1 Tourism 84
Passage 2 On the President's Program 87
Passage 3 The Hardest Day 90
Passage 4 That's Enough，Kids 92
Unit 9 97
Passage 1 Sleep Learning 97
Passage 2 Downswing in Ridership in America 99
Passage 3 Is Crime All Around Us？ 102
Passage 4 Appropriate Media for the Advertisement 104
Unit 10 109
Passage 1 A Plan for Exploring Mars 109
Passage 2 The Development of Cities 112
Passage 3 How Can Bright Ideas Come into Being？ 114
Passage 4 Universities Branch Out 116
APPENDIX 121