Unit 1 Food and Diet

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Food: Past and Present

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  A New Diet Equation

    Passage 2  Diet, Nutrition and Healthy Living

    Passage 3  Cancer and Diet

Unit 2  Archaeology

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Excavating an Ancient Egyptian Tomb

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Troy Uncovered

    Passage 2  Pompeii: Buried in Ages

    Passage 3  Machu Picchu Archaeological Sites

Unit 3  Medicine

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    A Brief History of Medicine

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  The Controversy over Human Cloning

    Passage 2  Natural Medicine -- The Way Home

    Passage 3  How to Build a Body   Part

Unit 4  Space

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    When Galaxies Collide

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Transient Lunar Phenomena

    Passage 2  Water, Flash Floods and New Possibilities for Life on Mars

    Passage 3  The Salyut Experience

Unit 5  History

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Rome: From Republic to Empire

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Anglo-Saxon England

    Passage 2  The Enlightenment

    Passage 3  Victorian Era

Unit 6  Biography

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    An American Storyteller: Ernest Hemingway

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Johannes Kepler

    Passage 2  Napoleon -- Downfall and Legend

    Passage 3  Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meck

Unit 7  Leisure Reading(Ⅲ)

    Passage 1  Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder

    Passage 2  The Trial of O. J. Simpson

    Passage 3  That Lean and Hungry Look

    Passage 4  An Excerpt from Jane Eyre

Unit 8  Economics

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    What Is Economics?

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension {Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations

    Passage 2  Karl Marx's Economic Conceptions

    Passage 3  John Maynard Keynes

Unit 9  Materials Science

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    A Brief History of Materials

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension {Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  The Age of Superstuff

    Passage 2  Superconductor Search: a Race and an Obsession

    Passage 3  The Future of Nanomaterials

Unit 10  Philosophy

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    What Is Philosophy?

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Socratic Method

    Passage 2  Rene Descartes' Dualism and Rationalism

    Passage 3  Brief Introduction to Kant

Unit 11  Law

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    An Introduction to Law

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Origins of Common Law

    Passage 2  The American Jury System: Standing in the Way of Justice7

    Passage 3  Nuremberg Trials

Unit 12  Education

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    The University and Society

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Set Universities Free

    Passage 2  Requirements for Completion in U.S. Graduate Schools

    Passage 3  Bertrand Russell on Education

Unit 13  Sports

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Social Aggregates and Cultural Influences in the Rise of Sport

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Good Sports

    Passage 2  Spectator Sports Reflect America's Melting Pot

    Passage 3  How David Stern and Michael Jordan May Have Destroyed the NBA

Unit 14  Leisure Reading(Ⅳ)

    Passage 1  King Edward Ⅷ Abdicated for Love

    Passage 2  Love Is a Fallacy (Part Ⅰ)

    Passage 3  Love Is a Fallacy (Part Ⅱ)

    Passage 4  An Exce