Module 1

　Text A The Wage War: Should America's Working Poor Get a Raise?

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B Empowering Women to End Worldwide Poverty

　Selected Story Air Force One and the Farmer

Module 2

　Text A An Uncomfortable Bed

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B Hungry for Books

　Selected Story The Husband Becoming His Wife's Son

Module 3

　Text A The Winters and the Palmleys

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B Mo Yan's Nobel Lecture: Storytellers

　Selected Story Swallowing a Horse

Module 4

　Text A No Rules for the Rich: How China Spends Its New Wealth

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B Billionaire Death Race: Inside America's Cup and the World's Most Dangerous Sailboat

　Selected Story Making the Big Decisions

Module 5

　Text A How Animals Predict Earthquakes

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B The Boston Marathon Bombing: Keep Calm and Carry on

　Selected Story Always Take and Never Give

Module 6

　Text A Why Students Shouldn't Take Unpaid Internships

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B The Problem with Standardized Tests

　Selected Story The Power of Embrace and Kiss

Module 7

　Text A China's Middle Class Feels the Pinch of Rising Prices

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B Tencent's Worth

　Selected Story A Pitiful Husband and His High-handed Wife

Module 8

　Text A So Many Books, So Little Time: A Passionate Reader's Story

　Paragraph Writing

　Text B Avoiding the Digital "Flock"

　Selected Story Shame, Shame, Shame

Vocabulary

　New Words

　Phrases and Expressions