Unit One

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Text A Harnessing the Power of Words

Text B A-Okay

Text C Dark Horse

Reading Appreciation The Brain

Unit Two

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Text A Confession of a Booklover

Text B On Buying Books

Text C Still Studying after All These Years

Reading Appreciation He Ate and Drank the Precious Words

Unit Three

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Text A Oxford University Has Had an Outstanding Reputation for Centuries

Text B Cambridge—the University Town

Text C Harvard's Founding

Reading Appreciation The Rose and the Gardener

Unit Four

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Text A The American Way:Time

Text B Last-Minute Christmas Shoppers Fill U.S.Stores

Text C Bathrooms in America

Reading Appreciation That's When You Know

Unit Five

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Text A Speaking of the Devil

Text B Remarks by President Clinton in Welcoming Ceremonies at the South Gate of the Old City Xi'an,China

Text C Opportunities and Challenges for China's Younger Generation

Reading Appreciation When I Was One-and-Twenty

Unit Six

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Text A A Car Culture is Taking Root in China

Text B Motorcar

Text C Auto Called No.1 Health Enemy

Reading Appreciation The Road Not Taken

Unit Seven

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Text A The American Way:Marriage

Text B The American Way:Family

Text C The Joys of Shopping

Reading Appreciation Home,Sweet Home

Unit Eight

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Text A Future Travel

Text B Different Types of Tourism

Text C Ecotourism

Reading Appreciation The Sun Travels

Unit Nine

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Text A A Wish of Rain

Text B "I Have A Dream"—30 Years Ago and Now

Text C Teens and a Killer Disease

Reading Appreciation The Music Within

Unit Ten

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Text A That's Life

Text B Everybody Can Do Something

Text C How to Be True to Yourself

Reading Appreciation Things Can Only Get Better

Unit Eleven

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Text A Differences Between Public Speaking and Conversation

Text B Conversations with a Gorilla

Text C The Origins of Language

Reading Appreciation The Word Plum

Unit Twelve

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Text A Earthmen Bearing Gifts

Text B Astronauts

Text C Shenzhou V Reaches for the Stars

Reading Appreciation Who Loves His Country

Practical English Readings

Key to Exercises