Unit One Book Review and Chinese Culture

Text A Unveiling and Consuming Art in the Multifarious Spaces of Early Modern China

Text B Book Review of Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy

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Unit Two Campus Life

Text A Take This Fish and Look at It

Text B Another School Year—What For？

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Unit Three Career

Text A Your Flexible Friends

Text B Words That Get You Hired

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Unit Four European Business News

Text A European Business News

Text B Is Higher Inflation the Most Painless Way to Escape Current Economic Troubles？

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Unit Five The Familiar Essay （Ⅰ）

Text A Solve That Problem—With Humor

Text B The Crooked Streets

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Unit Six Gender

Text A When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is “a Waste of Time”

Text B Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father

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Unit Seven Education

Text A A Matter of Degrees

Text B How to Build a Student for the 21st Century

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Unit Eight Emotional Life

Text A Friendship： The Laws of Attraction

Text B The Bond： Staying in Touch When Children Go to College

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Unit Nine Science

Text A The Biggest Extinction on Earth

Text B Spyware on Your Cell Phone？

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Unit Ten The Familiar Essay （Ⅱ）

Text A Fame

Text B The Vice of Punctuality

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Unit Eleven Short Story

Text A The Shocks of Doom

Text B Luck

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Unit Twelve Environment Protection

Text A The Price of Oil

Text B Deal or No Deal

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