Unit 1 1
Text A The Gift of Love 1
Text B Poetry in Motion 9
Unit 2 14
Text A Can Ethics Be Taught? 14
Text B Who's That Strange Monkey in the Mirror? 22
Unit 3 27
Text A China:A Land with the Culture for the Living 27
Text B School Where Chinese Is Compulsory 34
Unit 4 39
Text A Speech by Jiang Zemin at the Banquet to Celebrate the Opening of the'99 Fortune Global Forum in Shanghai 39
Text B Welcome to America! 48
Unit 5 53
Text A Long March's Peak:China's Admission to WTO 53
Text B Guests Welcome 62
Unit 6 66
Text A Why Girls Worry More than Boys 66
Text B Yoga's Growing Popularity in U.S.Attracts Cash 74
Unit 7 79
Text A Transformed by Tomatoes 79
Text B Are They Getting the Message? 87
Unit 8 92
Text A Parenting President—Interview with Former President George H.W.Bush and Barbara Bush(Excerpts) 92
Text B New IOC Chief Seen as"Mr.Clean" 101
Unit 9 106
Text A How Jazz Began? 106
Text B Give Residents a Place to Park 115
Unit 10 119
Text A The Lost Phoebe 119
Text B Mothers in Many Tongues 128
Unit 11 133
Text A A Hard Day in the Kitchen 133
Text B The Race against Avian Flu 143
Unit 12 148
Text A Work,Labor and Play 148
Text B Did He Say Chickens? 156
Unit 13 161
Text A Moment of Protest 161
Text B The Silent Killer 170
Unit 14 175
Text A Your Happiness Is in Your Hands 175
Text B Can Sunny Thoughts Halt Cancer? 184
Unit 15 189
Text A I Got My B.A.by Sheer Luck(Part One) 189
Text B I Got My B.A.by Sheer Luck(Part Two) 199
Unit 16 203
Text A Remembering Richard Nixon 203
Text B Find the Fun in Shakespeare 215
Appendixes 219
Appendix 1 Word List 219
Appendix 2 Phrases and Expressions 232
Appendix 3 Key to the Exercises 235
Appendix 4 Additional Readings 248
1．Foreign Minister on International Issues and China's Foreign Policy 248
2．李肇星谈国际问题和中国外交政策 256