Unit 1  Career Planning

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Career Planning

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Portfolio Career

    Passage 2  What Employers Will Want from You?

    Passage 3  Career Fit

Unit 2  Geography

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Geography of the Sea

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth}

    Passage 1  Mediterranean Sea

    Passage 2  Unique Geography of Australia

    Passage 3  Grand Canyon

Unit 3  Health

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    The "Milieu Interieur" (The Environment Within)

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Three Kinds of Fatigue

    Passage 2  Better to Be Fat and Fit than Skinny and Unfit

    Passage 3  Promotion of Health and Longevity

Unit 4  Biology

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage i  The Race to Discover the Genetic Code

    Passage 2  The Biodiversity of the Rainforest

    Passage 3  Man and Apes: Are We Really So Different?

Unit 5  Travelogue

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Marco Polo and His Travels

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage I  Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

    Passage 2  American Notes by Charles Dickens

    Passage 3  Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Unit 6  Energy

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    The Permanent Energy Crisis

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  The Master of Wind

    Passage 2  Energy Efficiency

    Passage 3  Hybrid Fiction

Unit 7  Leisure Reading(I)

  Passage 1  What Do Women Really Want?

  Passage 2  Men Are like Rubber Bands

  Passage 3  Women Are like Waves

  Passage 4  After Twenty Years

Unit 8  Art

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    How Art Functions

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  The Impressionists

  Passage 2  Leonardo's Mona Lisa

  Passage 3  Keys to Successful Art

Unit 9  Environment

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Abiotic and Biotic Factors in Environment

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Can We Save the World by 2015?

    Passage 2  Environmental Waste Solutions for an Ever-changing World

    Passage 3  Creating a Cleaning Environment

Unit 10  International Trade

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Free Trade

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    Passage 2  Protectionism (Part Ⅰ )

    Passage 3  Protectionism (Part Ⅱ )

Unit 11  Animals

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    Animal Rights -- How We Treat Animals Reflects Who We Are

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) ~

    Passage 1  Smart, Curious, Ticklish. Rats?

    Passage 2  Several Interesting Traits of Birds

    Passage 3  A Big Win for Polar Bears?

Unit 12  Marriage

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    A Review of Coontz's Marriage, a History

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)

    Passage 1  On Happiness in Marriage

    Passage 2  Marital Violence

    Passage 3  American Society Favors Marriage

Unit 13  Industry and Agriculture

  Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

    American Industry and War

  Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth )

    Passage 1  Green Revolution

    Passage 2  Financial Crisis Adds to Pressure on Auto Industry

    Passage 3  Organic Farming

Unit 14  Leisure Reading (II)

  Passage 1  I Want a Wife

  Passage 2  Chaplin and Modem Times

  Passage 3  How Obarna Happened: The Real Story