Unit 1 1
Passage One Methods of Education:East and West 1
Passage Two Little Sister of the Poor 5
Passage Three Packaging 15
Speed Reading 22
Unit 2 27
Passage One How to Deal with Difficult People 27
Passage Two The Girl with the Lavender Dress 36
Speed Reading 44
Unit 3 47
Passage One The Chunnel 47
Passage Two Who Will Take Advantage of Human Cloning? 53
Speed Reading 59
Unit 4 65
Passage One How Hurricanes Get Their Names 65
Passage Two Beauty on the Wing 69
Passage Three Never Trust Appearance 75
Speed Reading 80
Unit 5 82
Passage One How to Cope with Insomnia 82
Passage Two The Gift of Understanding 87
Passage Three Bargains 92
Speed Reading 95
Unit 6 101
Passage One The Gentlemen in White 101
Passage Two Surprises in Ice 106
Passage Three Detective on the Trail 110
Passage Four The Importance of Just Being There 115
Speed Reading 120
Unit 7 123
Passage One Why I Teach 123
Passage Two The Story of Jazz 130
Speed Reading 134
Unit 8 141
Passage One Death of a Dream 141
Passage Two International Joint Efforts Against AIDS 146
Passage Three The Most Famous Broadcast in the World 150
Speed Reading 156
Unit 9 158
Passage One Living as a Navajo 158
Passage Two The Voices of Time 165
Speed Reading 171
Unit 10 179
Passage One The Making of a Surgeon 179
Passage Two Success 185
Speed Reading 191
Unit 11 199
Passage One Profits of Praise 199
Passage Two Culture Shock 204
Passage Three The Sixth Sense 210
Speed Reading 216
Unit 12 219
Passage One The Secrets of Sleep 219
Passage Two Are These the Best Years of Your Life? 225
Passage Three What in a Face 231
Speed Reading 238
Unit 13 240
Passage One Sivilizing Huck 240
Passage Two Language 250
Speed Reading 257
Unit 14 260
Passage One Do Insects Think? 260
Passage Two Science and Antiscience 264
Passage Three How to Complain About Faulty Goods 270
Speed Reading 273
Unit 15 276
Passage One To Clone or Not to Clone:the Ethics Quesstion 276
Passage Two How Love Healss 280
Passage Three Lady Hermits Who Are Down but Not Out 286
Speed Reading 292
Unit 16 296
Passage One You Are What You Think 296
Passage Two Feathered Friend 304
Speed Reading 314