Unit 1
Text-1 Personal Benefits of Foreign Language Study
Text-2 How to Learn a Language
Text-3 9 Highly Effective Study Habits
Text-4 What Is Intelligence， Anyway?

Unit 2
Text-1 When Summer Found Its Place in My Heart
Text-2 The Greatest Gift a Dad Can Give His Daughter
Text-3 It's More Important to Be Kind Than Clever
Text-4 A Game of Light and Shade

Unit 3
Text-1 Text Generation Gap： U R 2 Old
Text-2 The Disappearing Generation Gap
Text-3 Fred's Modern Rite of Passage
Text-4 The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget

Unit 4
Text-1 Once upon a Time There Were No Cell Phones
Text-2 The Problem with Easy Technology
Text-3 E-mail Is for Old People
Text-4 The Fun and Excitement of "Reality"

Unit 5
Text-1 How Beethoven Overcame His Deafness to Become a Great Composer
Text-2 Wilma Rudolph， 1940-1994： "The Fastest Woman in the World"
Text-3 Overcoming Odds
Text-4 As Dream Comes True

Text-1 How Social Media Is Affecting the Way We Speak and Write
Text-2 Is Virtual Mobility Replacing Physical Mobility?
Text-3 The MySpace and Facebook Generation
Text-4 Txt Msg Phenomenon： R U in2 It?

Unit 7
Text-1 Why English?
Text-2 Does Twitter Have It Out for the English Language?
Text-3 How English Evolved into a Global Language
Text-4 Reading ——the Most Important Way to Learn English

Unit 8
Text-1 Tracking the Pollution amid the Remote
Text-2 After Dark， the Dirty Work at Disneyland Begins
Text-3 Rubbish Disposal
Text-4 Industry and the Environment
Appendix Key to Comprehension Exercises