READING SKILL:Skimming
UNIT 1 Reading Strategies
TEXT I:Why Read Faster
TEXT II:Suggestions for Improving Reading Speed
UNIT 2 Education
TEXT I:It's Never Too Late for Success
TEXT II:The Education of Benjamln Franklin
UNIT 3 Body Language
TEXT I:Signals Without Words
TEXT II:. The Secret Language of Barrier Signals
UNIT 4 Animals
TEXT I:Little Brother of the Wolf
TEXT II:Bird Brains
UNIT 5 History
TEXT I:Models for Understanding History
TEXT II:History as Conspiracy
UNIT 6 Language
TEXT I:Vocabulary Change
TEXT II:Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language
READING SKILL:Scanning
UNIT 7 Space
TEXT I:Has the Bright Promise of the Space Program Faded?
TEXT II:Probing the Universe
UNIT 8 Women
TEXT I:Women in Education, Sports and Media
TEXT II:Women in Science
U NIT 9 Cities
TEXT I:The Unforgettable Hong Kong
TEXT II:London
UNIT 10 Cross-Cultural Communication
TEXT I:A Cross-Cultural Context:Americans, Germans, and English
TEXT II:Customs
UNIT 11 Information Retrieval
TEXT I:Library
TEXT II:Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
UNIT 12 Environment
TEXT I:Pollution Scenario
TEXT II:Climate Change Scenario
READING SKILL:Drawing Inferences
UNIT 13 Medicine
TEXT I:The Interaction of Body and Mind
TEXT II:Will Your Drugs Work When You Really Need Them?
UNIT 14 Evolution
TEXT I:Charles Darwin and the Evolutionary Theory
TEXT II:Darwin and the Beagle
UNIT 15 Fransportation
TEXT I:Frank Turner
TEXT II:Can Vile Prevent a Grim Future for American Transportation?
UNIT 16 Time
TEXT I:The Calendar
TEXT II:A Brief History of Clock
UNIT 17 Television
TEXT I:Daytime TV Talk Shows- What's Their Appeal?
TEXT II:Television:The Cyclops That Eats Books
UNIT 18 Poetry
TEXT:Introduction to Poetry
