Unit One Book Review and Chinese Culture
Text A Unveiling and Consuming Art in the Multifarious Spaces of
Early Modem China
Text B Book Review of Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Two Campus Life
Text A Take This Fish and Look at It
Text B Another School Year---What For?
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Three Career
Text A Your Flexible Friends
Text B Words That Get You Hired
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Four European Business News
Text A European Business News
Text B Is Higher Inflation the Most Painless Way to Escape Current
Economic Troubles?
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Five The Familiar Essay (I)
Text A Solve That Problem--With Humor
Text B The Crooked Streets
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Six Gender
Text A When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is "a Waste of Time"
Text B Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Seven Education
Text A A Matter of Degrees
Text B How to Build a Student for the 21 st Century
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Eight Emotional Life
Text A Friendship: The Laws of Attraction
Text B The Bond: Staying in Touch When Children Go to College
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Nine Science
Text A The Biggest Extinction on Earth
Text B Spyware on Your Cell Phone?
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Ten The Familiar Essay (II)
Text A Fame
Text B The Vice of Punctuality
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Eleven Short Story
Text A The Shocks of Doom
Text B Luck
Twenty Minutes' Reading
Unit Twelve Environment Protection
Text A The Price of Oil
Text B Deal or No Deal
Twenty Minutes' Reading
