UNIT 1 Culture Difference

 Fast Reading Culture Shock: A Fish Out of Water  (I)

Text A Managers in Intercultural Environment   (3)

Text B The Culture Code  (10)

  Writing Personal Statement  (15)

UNIT 2 Education

 Fast Reading Why Have General Education Requirements for Students？  (20)

Text A What Every Student Should Know？  (21)

Text B Up in the Morning and off to School  (27)

  Writing Resume   (30)

UNIT 3 Intellenctual Property and Its Protection

 Fast Reading Gengle Loses Trademark Dispute in France  (36)

Text A Intellectual Property  (37)

Text B Bush Administration's Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement and Protection  (42)

  Writing Job Application Letters( I )  (46)

UNIT 4 Science and Literaturer

 Fast Reading Theory of Evolution   (55)

Text A Textual Selection   (56)

Text B Relationship between Science and Literature   (61)

  Writing Job Application Letters ( II )  (64)

UNIT 5 The Road to Success

 Fast Reading The Road to Business Success  (70)

Text A Michael Delss Two Billion Dollars Dream   (71)

Text B Passage One Skills in Demand  (76)

    Passage Two The Interview  (77)

  Writing Writing Memos  (79)

UNIT 6 Food and Health

 Fast Reading Improving Your Health  (84)

Text A Will Frankenfood Feed the World？  (86)

Text B A Healthy Diet  (91)

  Writing Vroposals (95)

UNIT 7 Language

  Fast Reading English Language Imperialism  (101)

Text A Potentially Confusing and Embarrasing Differences between American

   and British English  (102)

Text B Linguistic Imperialism and Linguistic Democracy   (109)

  Writing Abstracts  (112)

UNIT 8 Emotion

 Fast Reading The Emotional Bank Account  (116)

Text A Challenges to a Lasting Relationship   (117)

Text B Accepting Oneself  (121)

  Writing Summaries  (124)

UNIT 9 Cyberspace

 Fast Reading Wikipedia  (13I)

Text A Who Knows？   (132)

Text B Computer and Cyberspace Addiction   (136)

  Writing Research Papers  (140)

UNIT 10 Music and Science

 Fast Reading You Are Never Too Old for Music  (149)

Text A Music and the Brain   (150)

Text B Music,the Food of Neuroscience？   (155)

  Writing Technical Reports  (158)

UNIT 11 Men and Women

 Fast Reading Male Brain, Female Brain:The Hidden Difference  (167)

Text A Can't We Talk？  (168)

Text B Understanding the Difference between Men and Women   (175)

UNIT 12 Overcoming Disease

 Fast Reading How to Stay Healthy and Overcome Disease？   (181)

Text A Fighting Infection Effectively   (182)

Text B What We Still Don't Know about AIDS？   (188)

UNIT 13 Stern Cell

 Fast Reading Stem Cell Basics  (193)

Text A Speech on the U.S. Stem Cell Research Policy ( I )  (195)

Text B Speech on the U. S Stem Cell Research Policy ( II )   (201)

UNIT 14 International Relationship & Nuclear Weapons

 Fast Reading Nuclear Weapons  (205)

Text A Going Critical, Defying the World  (205)

Text B North Koreans' Nuclear Device Underground   (211)

UNIT 15 Environmental Protection

Fast Reading Warming to Economics  (215)

Text A A Silent Spring for Climate Change？  (216)

Text B The Cost of Global Wanning  (221)

Keys to Exercises  (226)

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