Unit 1
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 1
Text:How to Prepare and Present a Lecture 1
CONTENTS 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Comprehension of the Text 5
Unit 5
Cloze:Dictionary Use 6
Unit 6
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 7
Vocabulary Exercise 7
Unit 7
Unit 8
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 9
Affixes:-graph,path(o)-,audi(o)- 9
Unit 9
Reading A:How to Talk to Your Doctor 9
Unit 10
Definition 10
Reading B:How to Choose a Doctor 13
Outline 15
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 15
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 18
Text:Freedom from Pain 18
Comprehension of the Text 22
Cloze:How Do We Experience Pain 24
Vocabulary Practice 25
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 25
See the View from Within 27
Reading A:High-tech Devices Let Doctors 27
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 27
Reading B:Sensitivity to Penicillin 31
Chronological Sequence 34
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 34
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 37
Text:The Nightmare of Life Without Fuel 37
Comprehension of the Text 42
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 43
Cloze:Cost-Saving Fuels 43
Vocabulary Practice 43
Affixcs:chlor(o)-,nitr(o)-,oxi- 45
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 46
Reading A:The Search for Who We Are 46
Reading B:Is Anyone Out There? 51
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 56
Spatial Order 56
Text:Type A Behaviour and Type B Solution 59
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 59
Comprehension of the Text 63
Cloze:Behavior Patterns 64
Part Ⅱ IMpROVE YOUR WORD POWER 65
Vocabulary Practice 65
Reading A:Discovering Mental Illness 67
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 67
Reading B:What is Intelligence,Anyway? 70
Part Ⅳ IMpROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 72
Contrast 72
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 75
Text:A Case Study in Speech Therapy 75
Comprehension of the Text 80
Cloze:The Beginning of Language 80
Vocabulary Practice 81
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 81
Affixes:cardi(o)-,psych(o)- 83
Reading A:Animal Language 84
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 84
Reading B:Cultural Survival…Inc 87
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 89
Agreement/Disagreement 89
Text:Adjustment Mechanisms Indicative of Poor Mental Health 92
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 92
Comprehension of the Text 98
Cloze:A Child s First Emotions 99
Part Ⅱ IMpROVE YOUR WORD POWER 100
Vocabulary Practice 100
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 102
Reading A:Phobia 102
Reading B:Humor 105
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 109
A Letter of Application 109
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 113
Text:Solving a Mystery With DNA Fingerprints 113
Comprehension of the Text 118
Cloze:Genetic Engineering 119
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 120
Vocabulary Practice 120
Affixes:gen-,bio-,micro- 121
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 122
Reading A:Growing Crops for the Future Through Bioengineering 122
ReadingB:Genetic Engineering 125
Cause and Effect 129
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 129
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 132
Text:Got That Stuffy,Run-Down Feeling? 132
Comprehension of the Text 137
Cloze:What Is Smog? 139
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 140
Vocabulary Practice 140
Reading A:The Growing Headache of Nuclear Waste 142
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 142
Reading B:The Food You Eat May Kill You 145
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 148
Process 148
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 151
Text:Putting BrainPowerin a Box 151
Comprehension of the Text 154
Cloze:The Human Brain and the Computer 155
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 156
Vocabulary Practice 156
Affixes:neur(o)-,super-,inter- 158
Part Ⅲ IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILLS 159
Reading A:Capturing the Fire of the Stars 159
Reading B:Toward an Intelligence Beyond Man s 162
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 165
Part Ⅰ INTENSIVE READING 167
Text:Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die 167
Comprehension of the Text 172
Cloze:Grief Is No Killer 174
Part Ⅱ IMPROVE YOUR WORD POWER 175
Vocabulary Practiee 175
Part Ⅲ IMPROvE YOUR READING SKILLS 176
Reading A:Examining the Limits of Life 176
Reading B:Is It Wrong to Cut Off Feeding? 180
Part Ⅳ IMPROVE YOUR WRITING SKILLS 184
Summary 184