Unit 1 1
Text Ⅰ A New You 全新的你 1
Text Ⅱ Snip,Suction,Stretch and Truss 缝合，吸脂，拉皮和隆鼻 6
Reading For Fun Planned Life 设计好的生活 10
A Barking Wife 大喊大叫的太太 10
Unit 2 11
Text Ⅰ The Right to Control One s Leaming 对自己学习的主控权 11
Text Ⅱ TV Can t Educate 电视不能传授知识 17
Reading For Fun The Name of a Poet 诗人的名字 21
Puberty 青春期 21
Unit 3 22
Text Ⅰ The Girl s Room 闺房 22
Text Ⅱ The Dying Famlly 正在消亡的传统式的家庭 27
Reading For Fun A Girl Just Like Mother 和母亲一样的女朋友 31
What Are The Two Words 您说的是哪两个字 31
Unit 4 32
Text Ⅰ How to Overcome Your Spending Tendency 如何克服消费倾向 32
Text Ⅱ Analyzing Consumer s Motives 分析顾客购物动机 39
Reading For Fun What Was It She Wanted 她需要什么 44
I Am Glad 我很高兴 44
Unit 5 45
Text Ⅰ Music Video and Madonna 音乐电视和麦当娜 45
Text Ⅱ Pictures at a High Price 索价高昂的照片 50
Reading For Fun A London Fog 伦敦的大雾 55
Unit 6 56
Text Ⅰ The Pattems of Eating 吃饭的规矩 56
Text Ⅱ As for Clothing 就服装而论 62
Reading For Fun You Are Paying for It 你得付钱 67
Class and Ass 班级和驴子 67
Unit 7 68
Text Ⅰ Kick Off Your Heels 去掉你的高鞋跟 68
Text Ⅱ Spiffing Up The Urban Heritage 使古旧城市建筑焕然一新 74
Reading For Fun Picture and Word 绘画与文字 79
Unit 8 80
Text Ⅰ In Defense of Diego Maradona 为迭戈申辩 80
Text Ⅱ China Dragon 中国龙 86
Reading For Fun The Bells 钟声 89
Our Tails 人类的尾巴 89
Unit 9 90
Text Ⅰ Death and Justice:How Capital Punishment Affirms Life 死亡与公正：死刑怎样肯定生命 90
Text Ⅱ The Byan White Story 怀特的故事 96
Reading For Fun Good Intentions 好主意 99
Who Was the First Man 谁是第一人 99
Unit 10 100
Text Ⅰ Something Good 良知尚存 100
Text Ⅱ Shrinking Shores 退缩的海岸 105
Reading For Fun Interesting Knowledge 有趣的知识 110
What Happened Thirty Years Ago 不要归罪于三十年前 110
Unit 11 111
Text Ⅰ Stealthy Epidemic of Exhaustion 悄然传播的疲劳综合征 111
Text Ⅱ Students and Drugs 学生与毒品 115
Reading For Fun A Rich Father 富有的爸爸 118
I Had Forgotten Who It Was 我忘了“谁”是“他” 118
Unit 12 119
Text Ⅰ Splendid China in the USA 锦绣中华在美国 119
Text Ⅱ The New Whiz Kids 新一代神童 124
Reading For Fun A Useful Lesson 有益的经验 129
What Is a Traitor 什么叫叛徒 129
Unit 13 130
Text Ⅰ Can This Marriage be Saved（Part Ⅰ:Kate Talks First） 这个婚姻是否还能挽救第一部分：凯特的故事 130
Text Ⅱ Can This Marriage be Saved（Part Ⅱ:Peter s Turn to Talk） 第二部分：彼得的故事 135
Text Ⅲ Can This Marriage be saved（Part Ⅲ:The Counselor Speaks） 第三部分：顾问的说法 138
Reading For Fun Dr.Swift and the Boy 医生和男孩 142
Unit 14 143
Text Ⅰ Do Lie Detectors Lie?All Too Often 测谎仪是否也撒谎？很平常 143
Text Ⅱ The Difference Between a Brain and a Computer 人脑与电脑的区别 149
Reading For Fun Can t Make the Difference 不懂门道 152
Visual Training 视力测试 152
Unit 15 153
Text Ⅰ On the Past and Future of Science Fiction 科幻小说的过去和将来 153
Text Ⅱ How to Tell a Story 怎样讲故事 158
Reading For Fun The Joke 最好笑的笑话 161
I Didn t Know That I Was So Far Back Already 我竟逃了这么远 161
Unit 16 162
Text Ⅰ My Adidas! “我的阿迪达斯” 162
Text Ⅱ Pretty Women 漂亮女人 167
Reading For Fun The Hat 帽子 172
The Emperor Of Russia 俄罗斯皇帝 172
Unit 17 173
Text Ⅰ Our Picture of the Universe 我们描画的宇宙 173
Text Ⅱ Astrology 占星术 179
Reading For Fun A Cure for a Headache 治头痛 183
Winston Churchill 温斯顿·邱吉尔先生 183
Unit 18 184
Text Ⅰ Review of Cyberpunk 评《网际旁客》 184
Text Ⅱ Dreaming the Impossible at MIT 在马萨诸塞州科技研究院梦想成真 189
Reading For Fun A Mysterious Letter 一封神秘来信 193
参考译文 194
练习答案 254