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)