社会类 Social Class 1
Passage One State of Fear 2
Passage Two Checking out the Chicks 5
Passage Three The Not-so-great Outdoors 7
Passage Four Floppy Discs 11
Passage Five Something Rotten 13
Passage Six The Decline of the Landline 16
Passage Seven Nothing New under the Sun 19
Passage Eight Left Behind 22
Passage Nine Computing Climate Change 25
Passage Ten Charge！ 28
Passage One The Best Way to Curb Forced Marriages 31
Passage Two France’s New Year’s Tradition： Car-Burning 34
Passage Three E-waste Not 38
Passage Four Bunking in with Mom and Dad 41
Passage Five In Japan， Fast Fashion Rules in Slow Times 44
Passage Six Can Wind Power Get up to Speed？ 47
Passage Seven Does the E.U.’s Airline Blacklist Make Flying Safer？ 51
Passage Eight A Lighter Brew： Nonalcoholic Beer 54
Passage Nine Distracted Driving： Should Talking， Texting be Banned？ 57
Passage Ten Why Americans Are Adopting Fewer Kids om China？ 61
Passage One Having Kids Makes You Happy 65
Passage Two Phones without Homes 68
Passage Three On the Job Gaming 72
Passage Four The Bad News about Your Job 75
Passage Five Children of the System 78
Passage Six A Nanny’s Diary 82
Passage Seven The Argument against Paid Family Leave 86
Passage Eight NegotiatingaCredit-Card Crisis 90
Passage Nine Lonely Planet 93
Passage Ten Married， with Lies 97
Passage One Califomia Seeks Thermostat Control 101
Passage Two As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise， Food Stamp Use Nears Record 104
Passage Three Study Gives High Marks to U.S.Interet 108
Passage Four Asian Food Crisis Has Political and Civil Implications 112
Passage Five Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species 116
Passage Six Sweden Turning Sewage into a Gasoline Substitute 120
Passage Seven Frustration in the South as a Gasoline Shortage Drags on 124
Passage Eight Transit Use Hit Five-Decade High in 2008 as Gas Prices Rose 127
Passage Nine Road Deaths Nationwide Fell Sharply in 2008 130
Passage Ten Britain Responds to Criticism of Its Universal Health System 133
文教类 Culture and Education 138
Passage One Career Ahead 138
Passage Two A Poet of Light 141
Passage Three Crossing to Safety 144
Passage Four Work Hard， Be Nice 148
Passage Five Raising Alabama 150
Passage Six Brass in Pocket 153
Passage Seven Those Who Can 156
Passage Eight Kitchen-classroom Conservatives 159
Passage Nine Games Lessons 163
Passage Ten Cheap and Cheerful 166
Passage One Criminalizing Home Schoolers 169
Passage Two Hidden College Costs： Rising Fees 172
Passage Three A Writing Prize for the People， by the People 175
Passage Four No Dropouts Left Behind： New Rules on Grad Rates 179
Passage Five Making Reading， Writing and Recession Work Together 182
Passage Six A Brief History of Posthumous Literature 186
Passage Seven Cash-Strapped State Schools Being Forced to Privatize 189
Passage Eight Can Charter-School Execs Help Failing Publie Schools？ 193
Passage Nine India to Foreign Colleges： Set up Campus Here 196
Passage Ten Ann Arbor Kills Its Newspaper-to Save It 200
Passage One How Much Did “Taxi to the Dark Side” Earn at the American Box Office？ 204
Passage Two Lessons from Locke 208
Passage Three Struggling School-Age Boys 211
Passage Four Armchair Survivor 214
Passage Five A New Look for Japan’s Musicians 218
Passage Six Shock Therapy 221
Passage Seven Taking the Longer Road 225
Passage Eight The Sound of One Hand Clicking 228
Passage Nine The Guitar Is the Hero in ‘It Might Get Loud’ 231
Passage Ten Getting Schooled about Money 235
Passage One Applications to Colleges Are Breaking Records 239
Passage Two Online Schooling Grows， Setting Off a Debate 242
Passage Three East and West： Seeing the World through Different Lenses 247
Passage Four Report Urges Changes in Teaching Math 251
Passage Five Top Colleges Dig Deeper in Wait Lists for Students 255
Passage Six Study Finds Little Benefit in New SAT 258
Passage Seven New Vision for Schools Proposes Broad Role 261
Passage Eight College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S 265
Passage Nine Arts Leaders Urge Role for Culture in Economic Recovery 268
Passage Ten In a Digital Future， Textbooks Are History 273
经济类 Economy 280
Passage One No Countty for Old Men 280
Passage Two Helping Hand？ 282
Passage Three Banks Need More Capital 286
Passage Four Company Woe 289
Passage Five Slim Spring 292
Passage Six Waist Banned 295
Passage Seven The Sun Also Rises 299
Passage Eight Trading Blows 303
Passage Nine Big Is Back 306
Passage Ten When Cheap Is Exclusive 310
Passage One Will Online Sales Brighten a Bleak Holiday Season？ 314
Passage Two Texas Braces for an Oil Bust 317
Passage Three For the Post Office： Snow， Rain and Now Gloom of Recession 320
Passage Four FDIC Reports That Bank Failures Are Rising 323
Passage Five Credit Problems Are Climbing the Income Scale 326
Passage Six Can a Golf Shoe Help GEOX Beat the Recession？ 329
Passage Seven Commodities Conundrum 332
Passage Eight A Drag on the Economic Rebound： Consumer Spending 335
Passage Nine After Polaroid， Keeping Instant Photography Alive 338
Passage Ten Abercrombie＆Fitch： Worst Recession Brand？ 342
Passage One Yahooligans at the Window 346
Passage Two The Wal-Mart Puzzle 350
Passage Three Hold the Hysteria （For Now） 353
Passage Four You Call This a Depression榖 357
Passage Five The Biggest Thing to Fear Is Fear 361
Passage Six Can Anything Save Magazines？ 364
Passage Seven McKinsey’s Cracked Crystal Ball 367
Passage Eight The New Boom-Bust Cycle 371
Passage Nine Cash for Clunkers’ Lasting Impact 374
Passage Ten What’s Good for IBM 378
Passage One Oil Hits＄100 a Barrel for the First Time 382
Passage Two Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets 385
Passage Three Germany Debates Subsidies for Solar Industry 390
Passage Four Nissan Says Electric Cars Will Be Quickly Profitable 395
Passage Five Greenspan Concedes Error on Regulation 398
Passage Six Fifty Herbert Hoovers 402
Passage Seven In Asia， Hints of a Distant and Fragile Recove 405
Passage Eight China’s Economy Takes a Sharp Domestic Turn 408
Passage Nine Airbus Warns Output Could Drop as Much as 25 1507560n 2010 and 2011 411
Passage Ten For Asia， Data Shows a Slow Climb Out of Recession 415
科技类Science and Technology 420
Passage One Seeds of Hope 420
Passage Two Oil in Your Coffee 423
Passage Three A Capital Idea 426
Passage Four Smart Bridges 430
Passage Five Running on Air 433
Passage Six Not Forgotten 435
Passage Seven Keeping a Grip 438
Passage Eight A Hard Act to Follow 440
Passage Nine Blood Simple 443
Passage Ten The Next Blue Planet 446
Passage One Finding Energy All around Us 449
Passage Two Mars： Pop.6 452
Passage Three Mapping the Rats in New York City 455
Passage Four Wait a Second： Why 2008 Was a Long Year 459
Passage Five Learning More about Levitation 462
Passage Six What Good Is Sleep？ New Lessons from the Fruit Fly 465
Passage Seven An Organism Survives Antarctica， and Maybe Mars 469
Passage Eight Ida： Humankind’s Earliest Ancestor！ （Not Really） 472
Passage Nine The fMtRI Brain Scan： A Better Lie Detector？ 475
Passage Ten New Clues in the Mass Death of Bees 479
Passage One Living in the Clouds 483
Passage Two Digital Hide and Seek 486
Passage Three My Blackberry a Bomb Sniffer？ 490
Passage Four Technology to Wear 493
Passage Five Apple’s New Weapon 496
Passage Six Life’s Complexities 500
Passage Seven A Truce in the Crop Wars 503
Passage Eight Plugging Into the Future 506
Passage Nine High Tech Pets 510
Passage Ten TV’s Next Dimension 513
Passage One Scientists Would Turn Greenhouse Gas into Gasoline 517
Passage Two New Ways to Store Solar Energy for Nighttime and Cloudy Days 521
Passage Three Home Brew for the Car， Not the Beer Cup 524
Passage Four In a New Climate Model， Short-Term Cooling in a Warmer World 527
Passage Five Country, the City Version： Farms in the Sky Gain New Interest 530
Passage Six The Mysterious Cough， Caught on Film 534
Passage Seven Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread 537
Passage Eight On Web and iPhone， a Tool to Aid Careful Shopping 541
Passage Nine Panels of Light， Not Just Points， Fascinate Designers and Industry 545
Passage Ten Pursuing a Battery So Electric Vehicles Can Go the Extra Miles 549
健康类Health 554
Passage One Cancer Killers 554
Passage Two Kiss and Kill 557
Passage Three Resistance Is Useless 560
Passage Four Have You Been Taking Your Medicine？ 563
Passage Five Breathe Easy 566
Passage Six Toothache 569
Passage Seven The Truth Shall Make You Thin 572
Passage Eight Arrest That Plaque 574
Passage Nine On the Pill 577
Passage Ten Don’t Blame Your Genes 579
Passage One Does the Flu Vaccine Really Protect Kids？ 583
Passage TWO Can Vitamin D Protect Against Breast Cancer？ 586
Passage Three Lack of Sleep Linked to Heart Problems 589
Passage Four Why Men Are Better Dieters than Women 592
Passage Five Study： Secondhand Smoke Tied to Dementia 595
Passage Six Eating a Bit Less Salt Can Be a Big Health Boon 598
Passage Seven Why Does Scratching Relieve an Itch？ 602
Passage Eight Many Elderly Falls Due to Inner-Ear Imbalance 605
Passage Nine Study： Web Therapy Can Help Ease Insomnia 608
Passage Ten Benefits Seen in Post-cancer Weight-Lifting 612
Passage One It’s the Season of Temptation 616
Passage Two More Good News about Vitamin D 619
Passage Three The Power of Stations 623
Passage Four Eat Less， Live Longer？ 626
Passage Five The Medicine of Us and Them 630
Passage Six Another Reason to Stay Married 634
Passage Seven Campus Contagion？ 637
Passage Eight Training Faulty Brains to Work Better 641
Passage Nine Are Fat Friends Bad for Each Other？ 644
Passage Ten Organic Food for Thought 648
Passage One The Claim： Identical Twins Have Identical DNA 652
Passage Two Yes， Running Can Make You High 655
Passage Three Life Expectancy Is Declining in Some Pockets of the Country 659
Passage Four Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk 662
Passage Five Panel Sees Role for Smoking in Breast Cancer 665
Passage Six G.O.P. Senators Question Obama’s Health Reforms 668
Passage Seven Discovery May Help Treat Obesity 672
Passage Eight Stealing in Childhood Does Not a Criminal Make 675
Passage Nine Survey Finds High Fees Common in Medical Care 679
Passage Ten Genes Tied to Gap in Treatment of Hepatitis C 683