Reading Skill: Context Clues to Word Meaning
Unit 1 University Student Life
Texts: Ten Commandments for a College Freshman
Getting the Best Value for Time
Unit 2 Culture Shock
Texts: Making a Cultural Change
Culture Shock: A Fish out of Water
Unit 3 The Movies
Texts: Why Some People Love Horror Movies
How to Watch a Movie?
Unit 4 Food
Texts: A Food Tour of the United States
Eating the Sichuanese Way
Reading Skill: Understanding Sentence
Unit 5 Bible Stories
Texts: Genesis
The Birth of Jesus Christ
Unit 6 Business
Texts: Levi Strauss & Company
What Is the WTO?
Unit 7 Sports
Texts: Nanjing Secures 2014 Youth Olympic Games
How the Olympic Games Started?
Unit 8 Shyness
Texts: Overcome Shyness
How to Make a Good Impression?
Unit 9 Festivals and Holidays
Texts: Christmas
Celebrating the Chinese New Year at Home and Abroad
Reading Skill: Distinguishing Topic from Main Idea
Unit 10 Advertising
Texts: International Advertising as a Communication Process
How Advertising Is Done?
Unit 11 Psychology
Texts: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs — Psychology in Business
General Psychology: The Study of Behavior
Unit 12 Information Technology
Texts: Open Education's Wide World of Possibilities
Apple's iPhone: The Untold Story
Unit 13 Physical Fitness
Texts: Eight Myths About Physical Fitness
Fitness Fundamentals: Begin and Maintain an Exercise Program
Unit 14 Pseudoscience
Texts: Analyze Yourself with the Help of Doodles
Horoscopes
Unit 15 Fiction
Texts: How to Read Fiction: A Letter from Howard Pease to a Fan
The Old Man and the Sea (An Excerpt)
