UNIT 1

  TEXT I  All the Good Things

  TEXT II  What Makes a Teacher "Effective"?

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 2

  TEXT I  Animals as Teachers

  TEXT II  Protecting Primates

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 3

  TEXT I  Retracing the Footprints of the Summer Olympics

  TEXT II  Beijing Olympic Bid

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 4

  TEXT I  The Unplugged Lifestyle

  TEXT II  What's on Your iPod?

  Supplementary Reading

Reading Skills  I

UNIT 5

  TEXT I  A Hit Commercial Song

  TEXT II  Big Ideas Needed in Advertising

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 6

  TEXT I  Blue Jeans

  TEXT II  Fashion

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 7

  TEXT I  A Promise Kept

  TEXT II  In the Line of Fire

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT  8

  TEXT I  A Life out of the Newsroom -- and into the News

  TEXT II  "You're on Candid Camera!"

  Supplementary Reading

Reading Skills  II

UNIT 9

  TEXT I  Mount Qomolangma: The Mess at the Top of the World

  TEXT II  A Very Special Way of Traveling

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 10

  TEXT I  Working Christmas Day

  TEXT II  Doctors Confess Their Fatal Mistakes

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 11

  TEXT I  A Writer's Dream: The Home Office

  TEXT II  Do Not Disturb! Author at Work

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 12

  TEXT I  Under the Wing of Genius: Studying and Working with Stephen Hawking

  TEXT II  She's Got Their Number

  Supplementary Reading

Reading 5kills  III

UNIT 13

  TEXT I  Grasse: Perfume's French Center

  TEXT II  Scents and Sense

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 14

  TEXT I  Miracle Boy Survivor of the Haiti Earthquake

  TEXT II  What You Need to Know About Tornadoes

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 15

  TEXT I  A New Dream

  TEXT II  China's First Spaceman Yang Liwei

  Supplementary Reading

UNIT 16

  TEXT I  Hannah McKeand -- A Female Adventurer

  TEXT II  Meet a Geologist

  Supplementary Reading

A sample Test

Keys for Reference

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