CONTENTS

Unit One Reading News Reports

Lesson 1 Hour of Horror Forever Alters American Lives

Lesson 2 Is the Aerospace Industry Ready for Mars？

Lesson 3 The“Long Goodbye”

Unit Two Reading Biographies and Personal Recollections

Lesson 4 Bill Clinton

Lesson 5 David Beckham：My Side

Lesson 6 A Beautiful Mind

Unit Three Reading Essays（1）

Lesson 7 A Christmas Sermon On Peace

Lesson 8 Left for Dead

Lesson 9 Spell of the Rising Moon

Unit Four Reading Essays（2）

Lesson 10 Beyond Dolly：the Human Cloning Dilemma

Lesson 11 The Penalty of Death

Lesson 12 In Praise of the Humble Comma

Unit Five Reading Scientific And Technical Articales

Lesson 13 Our Picture of the Universe

Lesson 14 Flying and Driving after the September

11 Attacks

Lesson 15 2 Inches Between Life，Death

Unit Six Reading Short Stories and Novels

Lesson 16 Cat in the Rain

Lesson 17 The Stolen Party

Lesson 18 A Summer's Reading