Unit 1 Jobs

Text A What Employers Think When They Read Your Résumé

Text B How to Get Respect in Your Work

Unit 2 Father-Son Relationship

Text A My Father,My Son,Myself

Text B Like Father,Like Son

Unit 3 Popular Figures

Text A Yao Ming,the Bridge Spanning the East-West Divide

Text B Li Yuchun Loved for Being Herself

Unit 4 Interpersonal Relations

Text A The Art of Remembering Names

Text B Responding to Criticism without Being Defensive

Unit 5 To Excel

Text A How"Average"People Excel

Text B I Got My B.A.by Sheer Luck

Unit 6 Nature and Man

Text A A Question of Distance

Text B The Cost of Not Knowing

Unit 7 Cyber Security

Text A Viruses,Security Issues Undermine Internet

Text B Choosing and Protecting Passwords

Unit 8 Space Exploration

Text A How the Space Station Will Benefit Earthlings

Text B What Is a Black Hole?

Unit 9 Leadership

Text A Myth about the Natural-born Leader

Text B Are You a Leader or a Manager?

Unit 10 Tourism

Text A The Oldest City on Earth

Text B Heavenly Huangshan

Unit 11 Cross-Cultural Understanding

TextA Peeling the Chinese Onion

Text B Chinese-American Explores the"Typical American"(USIA interview with author Gish Jen)

Unit 12 Business

Text A Why Coke Has Real Problems

Text B Who Put the Ring in Your Cell Phone?

Unit 13 History

Text A Ten Who Changed the Millennium(1)(Excerpted)

Text B Ten Who Changed the Millennium(2)(Continued)

Unit 14 Bioethics

Text A Bioethics:Why Should I Care?

Text B Frozen Embryos:Stem Cell Source or Human Life?

Unit 15 Future Life

Text A Money's Digital Future

Text B Tomorrow in Brief

Glossary

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