Unit 1 Waking Up from the American Dream 1
Reading Skills 13
Determine the Main Idea 13
Unit 16
Guessing Vocabulary Items from Context 16
Unit 2 Move Over,Big Brother 21
Reading Skills 33
Skimming 33
Scanning 36
Unit 3 The Rise of the Green Building 43
Reading Skills 57
Drawing Inferences 57
Unit 4 A Speech at Tsinghua University 62
Reading Skills 75
Technical Prose 75
Unit 5 Impressions of America 86
Reading Skills 97
Reading Newspaper Articles 97
Reading Magazine Articles 103
Unit 6 At What Cost Beauty 110
Writing Skills 123
Letter 123
Curriculum Vitae(CV) 128
Unit 7 Original Thinker 131
Writing Skills 146
Electronic Mail 146
Memo 147
Unit 8 First Snow 151
Writing Skills 161
Abstract 161
The Research Paper(1) 163
Revision:Self-assessment Test Ⅰ 170
Unit 9 When the Brain Says,"Don't Get Too Close" 183
Writing Skills 197
The Research Paper(2) 197
Unit 10 How to Live and Love in the 21st Century 206
Writing Skills 217
The Research Paper(3) 217
Unit 11 Your Next Computer 223
Translation Skills 235
Subordinate Clauses(1)—Nominal Clauses 235
Subordinate Clauses(2)—Adverbial Clauses 239
Unit 12 Stem-cell Rebels 245
Translation Skills 257
Subordinate Clauses(3)—Attributive Clauses 257
Unit 13 The New Science of Happiness 264
Long Sentences 275
Translation Skills 275
Unit 14 Deadly and Yet Necessary,Quakes Renew the Planet 285
Translation Skills 297
Technical Translation 297
Unit 15 An Ode to Failure 309
Translation Skills 321
Translation of Product Specification(Instruction) 321
Condi on the Rise 330
Translation Skills 345
Discourse Translation 345
Revision:Self-assessment Test Ⅱ 356
Appendix 368