Unit1

Passage 1 My Life on the Court

Passage 2 Your Airline Wants to Get to Know You

Passage 3 More than One Way to the Square

Passage 4 Can Nurses Care Too Much?

Unit2

Passage 1 Obama

Passage 2 Margaret Thatcher

Passage 3 Bill Gates

Passage 4 Diana,Princess of Wales

Unit3

Passage 1 The Internet-the Best Place to Learn English

Passage 2 Quality Schools

Passage 3 Successful Job Interviews

Passage 4 Thinking Revolution

Unit4

Passage 1 Delivering Food in a College Community

Passage 2 Tips to Maximizing Your College Budget

Passage 3 Landing a Part-time Job

Passage 4 Do You Need a Gap Year?

Unit5

Passage 1 April Fool's Day

Passage 2 Hello,Everybody

Passage 3 End of an Era

Passage 4 Bridal Showers

Unit6

Passage 1 Phelps's Mother Helps Her Son Find Gold-Medal Focus

Passage 2 Jet Li's One Foundation

Passage 3 Saving Private Ryan

Passage 4 Civil Rights Movements

Unit7

Passage 1 Gender Issues in Health ＆ Medicine

Passage 2 Prenuptial Agreements

Passage 3 Ethics Issue for Citizen Snappers

Passage 4 Euthanasia

Unit8

Passage 1 Difficult Behavior in Adolescents

Passage 2 Anxiety:How to Deal with it

Passage 3 Saying No to the Net

Passage 4 Up the Ladder,Step by Step

Unit9

Passage 1 Growing Cities and their Environment

Passage 2 Fighting over Freshwater

Passage 3 Climate Change in Action

Passage 4 The Next Generation of Biofuels

Unit10

Passage 1 The Dream of Geophysicists

Passage 2 The Unpredictable Computer

Passage 3 Fight Stress and Keep the Weight Off

Passage 4 The Future of Man-How Will Evolution Change Humans?

Key to Comprehension Exercises