Unit 1 Education  

Text Ⅰ： Bachelor's Degree： Has It Lost Its Edge and Its Value？  

Text Ⅱ： The “Idea of a University” Today  

Unit 2 Body Language  

Text Ⅰ： TheSecret Language of Barrier Signals  

Text Ⅱ： Using Body Language  

Unit 3 Animals  

Text Ⅰ： What Is Animal Welfare？  

Text Ⅱ： Bird Brains  

Unit 4 History  

Text Ⅰ： Models for Understanding History  

Text Ⅱ： History as Conspiracy  

Un it 5 Language  

Text Ⅰ： Vocabulary Change  

Text Ⅱ： Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language  

 Reading Skill： Scanning  

Unit 6 Space  

Text Ⅰ： Giant Leaps： Top Milestones of Human Spaceflight  

Text Ⅱ： Mars Exploration  

Unit 7 Women  

Text T： Women in Education， Sports and Media  

Text Ⅱ： Women in Science  

Unit 8 Cities  

Text Ⅰ：The Unforgettable Hong Kong  

Text Ⅱ： Urbanization and Cities  

Unit 9 Cross-Cultural Communication  

Text Ⅰ： Cross-Cultural Differences in How People Communicate  

Text I1： Cultural Intelligence  

Unit 10 Environment  

Text Ⅰ： Climate Change  

Text Ⅱ： China's Green heap Forward  

 Reading Skill： Drawing Inferences  

Unit 11 Evolution，  

Text Ⅰ： Introduction： Evolution  

Text Ⅱ： Evolution vs． Creation-A Contentious Debate  

Unit 12 Transportation  

Text Ⅰ： Sustainable Urban Transportation： Initiatives in Canada  

Text Ⅱ： An Electric Boost for Bicyclists  

Unit 13 Time  

Text Ⅰ： The Calendar  

Text Ⅱ： A Brief History of Clock  

Unit 14 Television  

Text Ⅰ： How Reality TV Works  

Text Ⅱ： Television： The Cyclops That Eats Books  

Unit 15 Poetry