本教材紧扣大学英语四、六级的新题型，编排科学，设计合理。教程共包含不同主题共九个单元，每单元包含主题相同的四篇文章，篇和第二篇文章为精读课文，配套多元化的题型，并设置可供学生讨论的问题，以增进阅读理解；第三篇和第四篇为快速阅读的文章，配套的练习题对应大学英语四六级的题型。本教程的每一篇文章都附有重点单词、词组的注释和例句，并提供相关背景知识介绍，以帮助学生了解英美文化，拓展优选视野。

  

Unit 1 Education System
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A NYU's Free Medical-School Tuition
Passage B A 5-Year-Old's 15-Page Resume
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C Sex and Health Education in England Schools
Passage D U.S. University Tech Race With China
Unit 2 Science and Technology
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A An Experiment With a Begging Robot
Passage B What's Wrong With AI?
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C Alibaba's Futuristic Hotel
Passage D Apple and Samsung Fined for Deliberately Slowing Down Phones
Unit 3 Health and Medicine
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A Superfoods Are a Marketing Ploy
Passage B Measles Outbreak in Anti-vaccination "Hotspot" Near Portland
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C U.S. Life Expectancy Declines Again
Passage D London HIV Patient Becomes World's Second AIDS Cure Hope
Unit 4 So Psychology
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A Personality Trait
Passage B The Hidden Networking Gap Between Men and Women
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C Gatekeeper at "Suicide Forest" Hopes Music Can Save Lives
Passage D Why Cars Are a Popular Place for a Good Cry
Unit 5 So Media
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A Student Journalism in the Age of Media Distrust
Passage B Saudi Writer's Mild Calls for Reform Grew Into a Defiant Shout
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C Shifting Facebook Toward a "Privacy-focused" Platform
Passage D Worlds first AI News Anchor Debuts in China
Unit 6 Environmental Protection
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A Venice Battles With Tourism and Flooding
Passage B The "Great Dying".
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C Plummeting Insect Numbers "Threaten Collapse of Nature"
Passage D Why Half a Degree of Global Warming Is a Big Deal
Unit 7 Global Celebrity
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A Angela Merkel's Legacy
Passage B George H.W. Bush
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C Karl Lagerfeld
Passage D Co-founder of Microsoft: Paul Allen
Unit 8 Finan Window
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A Alihaba Goes International to Hit New Singles's Day Record
Passage B American Chain Restaurants Had a Tough Year
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C China's Sorghum Firewater (高粱烈酒) , Baijiu Goes Global
Passage D Chinese Firm Behind the "Amazon Coat"
Unit 9 Cultural Lifestyle
Part One Reading in depth
Passage A Modem Parenting: Stress, Exhaustion and Guilt
Passage B Silicon Valley Nannies Are Phone Police for Kids
Part Two Fast reading
Passage C Sky-high Rents Forced People Into Imaginative Alternatives
Passage D Coping With the 100-year-life Society
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