Unit 1 Suspense 1
Part One Preparation 2
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 4
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 8
In-Class Reading The Lady or the Tiger? 8
After-Class Reading 18
Passage Ⅰ The Tell-Tale Heart 18
Passage Ⅱ Cleaning up 27
Part Four Further Development 36
Unit 2 Communication 39
Part One Preparation 40
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 41
In-Class Reading Understanding an Utterance 44
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 44
After-Class Reading 53
Passage Ⅰ Silence in Communication 53
Passage Ⅱ Who's Funny? 62
Part Four Further Development 73
Unit 3 Medicine 75
Part One Preparation 76
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 78
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 81
In-Class Reading Aching for Relief 81
After-Class Reading 81
Passage Ⅰ The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 91
Passage Ⅱ Beginning of the End for Antibiotics 105
Part Four Further Development 115
Unit 4 Family 117
Part One Preparation 118
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 120
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 123
In-Class Reading Do Parents Know Their Kids? 123
After-Class Reading 133
Passage Ⅰ My Most Unforgettable Character 133
Passage Ⅱ Costly If We Have Them:More Costly If We Don't 142
Part Four Further Development 150
Unit 5 Population 153
Part One Preparation 154
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 155
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 155
In-Class Reading Battle of the Bulge 158
After-Class Reading 169
Passage Ⅰ Migration 169
Passage Ⅱ Aging Populations 177
Part Four Further Development 185
Unit 6 The Open Window 189
Part One Preparation 190
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 192
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 195
In-Class Reading The Open Window 195
After-Class Reading 206
Passage Ⅰ The Last Leaf 206
Passage Ⅱ The Kiss 219
Part Four Further Development 231
Unit 7 Cloning 235
Part One Preparation 236
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 237
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 240
In-Class Reading Whose Self Is It,Anyway? 240
After-Class Reading 252
Passage Ⅰ Dolly's False Legacy 252
Passage Ⅱ Mouse Cloning Begins Bio-Industrial Era 260
Part Four Further Development 269
Unit 8 Changing Values 273
Part One Preparation 274
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 275
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 278
In-Class Reading Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age? 278
Passage Ⅰ Something Un-Chinese Haunts a Graduate:Choice 291
After-Class Reading 291
Passage Ⅱ Where the Boys Aren't 301
Part Four Further Development 312
Unit 9 Invention 317
Part One Preparation 318
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 319
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 321
In-Class Reading Invention Is the Mother of Necessity 321
After-Class Reading 334
Passage Ⅰ Necessity—The Mother of Invention 334
Passage Ⅱ Nothing 343
Part Four Further Development 357
Unit 10 The Future 359
Part One Preparation 360
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 362
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 365
In-Class Reading The Future That Has Already Happened 365
After-Class Reading 375
Passage Ⅰ 2001-3000 the World As It Will Be 375
Passage Ⅱ Inventing the Future 386
Part Four Further Development 395
Unit 11 Women in the Workplace 397
Part One Preparation 398
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 401
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 403
In-Class Reading Why Women Aren't Getting to the Top 403
Passage Ⅰ In the Company of Women 414
After-Class Reading 414
Passage Ⅱ Women Are Pushy,Men Ambitious 422
Part Four Further Development 432
Unit 12 The Hungry Mind 435
Part One Preparation 436
Part Two Listening-Centered Activities 438
Part Three Reading-Centered Activities 441
In-Class Reading Feeding the Mind 441
After-Class Reading 451
Passage Ⅰ Self-Renewal 451
Passage Ⅱ Four Kinds of Reading 461
Part Four Further Development 474
Test Yourself(College English Band Five) 476
Glossary 492