Unit One

Part Ⅰ Reading for Information

Pre-reading Questions

Text:Animal Minds

Exercises

Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure

Text 1:What Now for Our Feverish Planet?

Exercise

Text 2:Genetic Encores:The Ethics of Human Cloning

Exercise

Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading

Beware of the Dog

Exercises

Unit Two

Part Ⅰ Reading for Information

Pre-reading Questions

Text:The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Exercises

Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure

Text 1:Detective Story

Exercise

Text 2:The Guarded Secrets

Exercise

Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading

The Message

Exercises

Unit Three

Part Ⅰ Reading for Information

Pre-reading Questions

Text:2008 Presidential Debates

Exercises

Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure

Text 1:The Surprising Causes of Those College Tuition Hikes

Exercise

Text 2:Hip-Hop Nation

Exercise

Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading

Talk in the Intimate Relationship:His and Hers

Exercises

Unit Four

Part Ⅰ Reading for Information

Pre-reading Questions

Text:Bleeding Jungle

Exercises

Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure

Text 1:Return of the Time Lord

Exercise

Text 2:What Makes Us Moral

Exercise

Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading

How Soon Can I Leave?

Exercises

Unit Five

Part Ⅰ Reading for Information

Pre-reading Questions

Text:An Analysis of Quality of Work Life and Career-Related Variables

Exercises

Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure

Text 1:Is This the Greenest City in the World?

Exercise

Text 2:To Catch an Identity Thief

Exercise

Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading

Romantic Jealousy

Exercises

Unit Six

Part Ⅰ Reading for Information

Pre-reading Questions

Text:Gimpel the Fool

Exercises

Part Ⅱ Reading for Pleasure

Text 1:The Exit Meeting

Exercise

Text 2:Generation Gap:U R 2 Old (JK)

Exercise

Part Ⅲ Test Your Reading

From Brain Drain to Bright Future

Exercises

Appendix Ⅰ Glossary

Appendix Ⅱ Key to Test Your Reading