Unit 1 Leaders and Leadership
Passage A President Xi Jinping's 2020 New Year Speech
Passage B Anecdotes of Yanzi
Write Academically： Preparing for a Research Paper
Unit 2 Language and Culture
Passage A World English： A Blessing or a Curse?
Passage B Humbled by Nature， Humble by Culture
Write Academically： Choosing a Topic
Unit 3 Ecology and Economy
Passage A Spillonomics： Underestimating Risk
Passage B Environmental Protection in the Eyes of the Poor
Write Academically： Constructing Research Proposal
Unit 4 Medical Research
Passage A What Genius and Autism Have in Common?
Passage B A Pill for Loneliness
Write Academically： Deciding on a Title
Unit 5 Leading Scientist and Pioneering Work
Passage A A Beautiful Mind
Passage B Mind over Machine
Write Academically： Creating an Outline
Unit 6 People and the World
Passage A A Christmas Sermon on Peace
Passage B Bill Clinton
Write Academically： Citation vs． Plagiarism
Unit 7 Space and Species
Passage A Our Picture of the Universe
Passage B If Half of All Species Go Extinct， Will One of Them Be Us?
Write Academically： Writing the Introduction
Unit 8 Career and Work
Passage A Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore
Passage B It’s Getting Harder for International STEM Students to Find Work after Graduation
Write Academically： Writing a Literature Review
Unit 9 Desire and Anxiety
Passage A Steve Jobs
Passage B Fearing Fear Itself
Write Academically： Presenting Methodology
Unit 10 Alone and Lonely
Passage A Spell of the Rising Moon
Passage B One Is the Loneliest Number： the History of a Western Problem
Write Academically： Composing Results and Discussion
Unit 11 Chip Wars and Tech Revolution
Passage A Chip Wars
Passage B Will Tech Revolution Overwhelm Global System?
Write Academically： Presenting Tables and Figures
Unit 12 Health and Disease
Passage A E-cigarettes： A Fairy Tale of a Healthy Alternative to Conventional
Cigarettes?
Passage B Is Obesity Really a Disease?
Write Academically： Writing Conclusion and Recommendation
Unit 13 Energy and Environment
Passage A Nuclear Energy Regulation Risk and the Environment
Passage B Why Don't More Cities Require Green Roofs?
Write Academically： References
Unit 14 Surveillance and Supervision
Passage A The Employer-Surveillance State
Passage B The Controversy over Parents Who Eat Lunch with Their Children at School
Write Academically： Writing an Abstract
Unit 15 Global Green Economy
Passage A Global Green Growth Engine in the Making
Passage B Get the Lead Out： Why the Best Way to Improve Health in Poor Countries Is to Clean up Industrial Pollution?
Write Academically： Preparing for Publication