Unit 1 Text - 1 Preparing for College： Insights from My Freshman Year

Text - 2 Tips for First-Year Students

Text - 3 Why Young Americans Want a College Degree

Text - 4 Visitas Memories

Unit 2 Text - 1 How Going to College Made Me Discover My Real Friends

Text - 2 Crimson Ties

Text - 3 Black and White

Text - 4 Friendship

Unit 3 Text - 1 Some Facts about Stephen Hawking

Text - 2 5 Lessons Steve Jobs Left Behind

Text - 3 What Would Happen If All Satellites Stopped Working?

Text - 4 The Scientific Method

Unit 4 Text - 1 America Is More Patchwork Quilt Than Melting Pot

Text - 2 Andrew Carnegie

Text - 3 Nicola Tesla

Text - 4 I． M． Pei

Unit 5 Text - 1 What I Learned in the Shoe Store

Text - 2 The Waitress

Text - 3 The Face in the Window

Text - 4 The Death Car

Unit 6 Text - 1 My Love Story， before Social Networks

Text - 2 Internet Love Can Work

Text - 3 7 Very Unique Movies about Unrequited Love for Valentine's Day

Text - 4 Home Is Where the Heart Is

Unit 7 Text - 1 Muting the Mozart Effect

Text - 2 Humans Are More Than Clever Apes? Don't Make Me Laugh

Text - 3 Natural and Applied Science

Text - 4 Do Animals Think?

Unit 8 Text - 1 Learning Curves on the Career Path

Text - 2 What Is the Future of Technology in Education

Text - 3 Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's

Text - 4 Continuing Education Classes

Appendix Key to Comprehension Exercises