本書共十五單元，三部分：第一部分為課堂教學(xué)設(shè)計；第二部分有四至五篇相關(guān)題材的短文；第三部分所選課文長度超過第一部分課文，內(nèi)容是相關(guān)題材的深化或補(bǔ)充。
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
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