杰西卡·威廉姆斯，美籍资深英语教师、编辑和作家，是ELT专业多本学生书籍和专业参考书的作者，有多年英语读物、教师指导手册、练习册等英语教学材料的编写经验。

THE BODY IN MOTION
READING 1 A Natural Way to Run
READING SKILL: Connecting Visual
Materials to a Text
READING 2 The Runner's High
READING SKILL: Connecting Ideas with
Signal Words: this, these, and such
UNIT REVIEW
TIME
READING 1 Spring Forward, Fall Back
READING SKILL:. Understanding the
Writer's Perspective
READING 2 In Search of an Accurate Calendar
READING SKILL: Creating Time Lines
UNIT REVIEW
WATER
READING 1 Drinking Water
READING SKILL: Recognizing Implicit
Conditions
READING 2 The Bottled-Water Debate
READING SKILL: Supporting Details in a
Persuasive Text
UNIT REVIEW
TRAVEL
READING 1 Extreme Diving
READING SKILL: Finding Out Why
READING 2 Disaster Tourism
READING SKILL: Understanding
Connectors of Contrast
UNIT REVIEW
ANIMAL-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
READING 1 Humans and Cattle: A Shared History
READING SKILL: Inferring Meaning from the Text
READING 2 Domesticatin9 the Wild
READING SKILL: Understanding
Processes
UNIT REVIEW
ARCHITECTURE
READING 1 Safer Homes in Earthquake Zones
READING SKILL: Understanding
Information in Tables
READING 2 Urban Architecture in the 21st Century
READING SKILL: Taking Notes
UNIT REVIEW
GENETICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
READING 1 Sibling Personalities
READING SKILL: Analyzing Sentence Purpose
READING 2 Epigenetics
READING SKILL: Relating Supplementary
Material to the Text
UNIT REVIEW
INVENTIONS
READING 1 The Golden Age of Islamic Invention
READING SKILL: Scanning
READING 2 Origami: The Practical Applications of a Familiar Art
READING SKILL: Cohesion: Following
Topic Chains
UNIT REVIEW
ROBOTICS
READING 1 Robots to the Rescue
READING SKILL: Reading as Test Preparation
READING 2 Humanoids
READING SKILL: Active Reading
UNIT REVIEW
Vocabulary Index
Credits

本书由圣智学习集团引进，主要培养学生英语阅读能力和提高词汇量和词汇运用能力。本册书共9个单元，分别为9个不同的主题。每个单元包含两个阅读语篇，语篇与单元主题相关。语篇配有阅读理解练习和词汇练习，注重培养学生的语篇理解能力、词块意识、思辨能力。本册书适合程度较好的高二学生或高三学生使用。