READING SKILL：Skimming 1
UNIT 1 Reading Strategies 3
TEXT Ⅰ：Why Read Faster 6
TEXT Ⅱ：Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed 15
UNIT 2 Education 19
TEXT Ⅰ：It’s Never Too Late for Success 22
TEXT Ⅱ：The Education of Benjamin Franklin 30
UNIT 3 Body Language 34
TEXT Ⅰ：Signals Without Words 37
TEXT Ⅱ：The Secret Language of Barrier Signals 45
UNIT 4 Animals 49
TEXT Ⅰ：Little Brother of the Wolf 52
TEXT Ⅱ：Bird Brains 60
UNIT 5 History 65
TEXT Ⅰ：Models for Understanding History 67
TEXT Ⅱ：History as Conspiracy 75
UNIT 6 Language 80
TEXT Ⅰ：Vocabulary Change 83
TEXT Ⅱ：Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language 92
READING SKILL：Scanning 97
UNIT 7 Space 99
TEXT Ⅰ：Has the Bright Promise of the Space Program Faded？ 102
TEXT Ⅱ：Probing the Universe 110
UNIT 8 Women 115
TEXT Ⅰ：Women in Education，Sports and Media 119
TEXT Ⅱ：Women in Science 127
UNIT 9 Cities 131
TEXT Ⅰ：The Unforgettable Hong Kong 135
TEXT Ⅱ：London 143
UNIT 10 Cross-Cultural Communication 148
TEXT Ⅰ：A Cross-Cultural Context：Americans，Germans，and English 152
TEXT Ⅱ：Customs 160
UNIT 11 ？nformation Retrieval 164
TEXT Ⅰ：Library 167
TEXT Ⅱ：Evaluating Information Found on the Internet 177
UNIT 12 Environment 182
TEXT Ⅰ：Pollution Scenario 186
TEXT Ⅱ：Climate Change Scenario 194
READING SKILL：Drawing Inferences 199
UNIT 13 Medieine 201
TEXT Ⅰ：The Interaction of Body and Mind 202
TEXT Ⅱ：Will Your Drugs Work When You Really Need Them？ 210
UNIT 14 Evolution 215
TEXT Ⅰ：Charles Darwin and the Evolutionary Theory 216
TEXT Ⅱ：Darwin and the Beagle 224
UNIT 15 Transportation 228
TEXT Ⅰ： Frank Turner 229
TEXT Ⅱ：Can We Prevent a Grim Future for American Transportation？ 237
UNIT 16 Time 241
TEXT Ⅰ： The Calendar 242
TEXT Ⅱ：A Brief History of Clock 251
UNIT 17 Television 256
TEXT Ⅰ：Daytime TV Talk Shows — What’s Their Appeal？ 257
TEXT Ⅱ：Television：The Cyclops That Eats Books 265
UNIT 18 Poetry 269
TEXT： Introduction to Poetry 269