Unit 1 Jobs 1
Text A What Employers Think When They Read Your Résumé 2
Text B How to Get Respect in Your Work 9
Unit 2 Father-Son Relationship 14
Text A My Father,My Son,Myself 15
Text B Like Father,Like Son 23
Unit 3 Popular Figures 29
Text A Yao Ming,the Bridge Spanning the East-West Divide 30
Text B Li Yuchun Loved for Being Herself 38
Unit 4 Interpersonal Relations 44
Text A The Art of Remembering Names 45
Text B Responding to Criticism without Being Defensive 53
Unit 5 To Excel 59
Text A How"Average"People Excel 60
Text B I Got My B.A.by Sheer Luck 69
Unit 6 Nature and Man 75
Text A A Question of Distance 76
Text B The Cost of Not Knowing 82
Unit 7 Cyber Security 87
Text A Viruses,Security Issues Undermine Internet 88
Text B Choosing and Protecting Passwords 95
Unit 8 Space Exploration 100
Text A How the Space Station Will Benefit Earthlings 101
Text B What Is a Black Hole? 108
Unit 9 Leadership 113
Text A Myth about the Natural-born Leader 114
Text B Are You a Leader or a Manager? 121
Unit 10 Tourism 126
Text A The Oldest City on Earth 127
Text B Heavenly Huangshan 136
Unit 11 Cross-Cultural Understanding 141
TextA Peeling the Chinese Onion 142
Text B Chinese-American Explores the"Typical American"(USIA interview with author Gish Jen) 151
Unit 12 Business 157
Text A Why Coke Has Real Problems 158
Text B Who Put the Ring in Your Cell Phone? 168
Unit 13 History 173
Text A Ten Who Changed the Millennium(1)(Excerpted) 174
Text B Ten Who Changed the Millennium(2)(Continued) 186
Unit 14 Bioethics 196
Text A Bioethics:Why Should I Care? 197
Text B Frozen Embryos:Stem Cell Source or Human Life? 203
Unit 15 Future Life 207
Text A Money's Digital Future 208
Text B Tomorrow in Brief 215
Glossary 220
Phrases and Expressions 254