Unit1

Passage 1 How to Use a Library

Passage 2 Media Selection for Advertisements

Passage 3 Green Tea Is More Than a Way of Life in South Korea

Passage 4 Culture Shock

Unit2

Passage 1 Learning to Keep Your Cool During Tests

Passage 2 The Extrinsic or Intrinsic Education

Passage 3 Reading—the Most Important Way to Learn English

Passage 4 My School Education

Unit3

Passage 1 Modern Wedding Customs and Traditions in Western

Passage 2 Thanksgiving Day

Passage 3 Taboos in America

Passage 4 Cross your fingers

Unit4

Passage 1 American Civil War

Passage 2 Louisiana Purchase ＆ Exploration of the West

Passage 3 Things to Know about G20

Passage 4 The Statue of Liberty?

Unit5

Passage 1 Somali Hijackers

Passage 2 What Do Parents Owe Their Children?

Passage 3 Barbie Not the Only Thing Turning 50

Passage 4 WHO's New Concern—Swine Flu A-H1N1 Virus

Unit6

Passage 1 About Homeownership in America

Passage 2 The Rise of Industry

Passage 3 House Price Rise:the Global Worry

Passage 4 The Third Session of the World Urban Forum

Unit7

Passage 1 Will We Run Out of Water?

Passage 2 Energy in the Future

Passage 3 Is the Electric Vehicle Ear at Hand?

Passage 4 Birth of an Antarctic Super-Berg

Unit8

Passage 1 Nicotine

Passage 2 Animals on the Move

Passage 3 Airplane

Passage 4 Diet to Prevent Cancer

Unit9

Passage 1 Obama:Person of the Year

Passage 2 Reagan:The 40th President of USA

Passage 3 J.K.Rowling

Passage 4 He Helped Develop the Fast Food Industry

Unit10

Passage 1 The Internet Transforms Modern Life

Passage 2 A Bus Driver Delivers Free Home-cooked Meals

Passage 3 Top 8 Modern Life Survival Skills

Passage 4 Laid-Off Japanese Workers Becoming Homeless

Key to Comprehension Exercises