Unit One  Book Review and Chinese Culture

  Text A  Unveiling and Consuming Art in the Multifarious Spaces of

      Early Modem China

  Text B  Book Review of Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Two  Campus Life

  Text A  Take This Fish and Look at It

  Text B  Another School Year---What For?

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Three  Career

  Text A  Your Flexible Friends

  Text B  Words That Get You Hired

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Four  European Business News

  Text A  European Business News

  Text B  Is Higher Inflation the Most Painless Way to Escape Current

      Economic Troubles?

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Five  The Familiar Essay (I)

  Text A  Solve That Problem--With Humor

  Text B  The Crooked Streets

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Six  Gender

  Text A  When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is "a Waste of Time"

  Text B  Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Seven  Education

  Text A  A Matter of Degrees

  Text B  How to Build a Student for the 21 st Century

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Eight  Emotional Life

  Text A  Friendship: The Laws of Attraction

  Text B  The Bond: Staying in Touch When Children Go to College

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Nine  Science

  Text A  The Biggest Extinction on Earth

  Text B  Spyware on Your Cell Phone?

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Ten  The Familiar Essay (II)

  Text A  Fame

  Text B  The Vice of Punctuality

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Eleven  Short Story

  Text A  The Shocks of Doom

  Text B  Luck

  Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Twelve  Environment Protection

  Text A  The Price of Oil

  Text B  Deal or No Deal

  Twenty Minutes' Reading