目录 Unit 1 College Life Passage 1 An Eventful 40-year Journey, for Gaokao Passage 2 Freshmen, Stress and Relationships Passage 3 Grad Finds Pen Power Passage 4 Summer Not Season to Be Lazy Passage 5 Bringing Best Brains to Rural Schools Unit 2 Technology and Innovation Passage 1 Wired for Distraction: Kids and Social Media Passage 2 Google Cars Computer Got Smarter in 2015 Passage 3 Recovering Memory:Can a New Device Help Amnesia Patients? Passage 4 Chinas Great(Quantum) Leap Forward Passage 5 Trouble Beneath the Ice Unit 3 Society and Culture Passage 1 Parenting as the Dutch Passage 2 Do Students Lose Depth in Digital Reading? Passage 3 The Danger of Having Too Many Experts Passage 4 Can Technology Help Fashion Clean up Its Act? Passage 5 Britains Paper Tigers Unit 4 Environment and Climate Passage 1 Blooming Horrible Passage 2 Hurricanes and Human Choice Passage 3 Plastic Fishing in the Southern Ocean Passage 4 Self-serving Stewardship: How Manufacturers Help the Planet Passage 5 Insecticide "Unacceptable" Danger to Bees, Report Finds Unit 5 Leisure and Travel Passage 1 How Holiday Inn Changed the Way We Travel Passage 2 Jumping to Conclusions Passage 3 Tranquillity on an Island off Cape Cod Passage 4 Road Trip: Flower Route Netherlands Passage 5 Chinas Mystic Waters Unit 6 China-related Issues Passage 1 Is It a Bird? A Plane? Passage 2 The Slow Boat from China Passage 3 Chinas Middle Class Gets a Taste for Healthy Eating Passage 4 Is China Outsmarting America in A. I. 7 Passage 5 The Legacy of the First Emperor Unit 7 Youth and Education Passage 1 The New Generation of Chinese Women Would Prefer to Be Single Rather Than Stay in an Unhappy Relationship Passage 2 Symbols of Western Youth Passage 3 Chinese Youth Say No to Having Kids Passage 4 Schools:Our Schools Put Boys at a Disadvantage Passage 5 Universities: Pile Them High Unit 8 Hot Issues and Concerns Passage 1 How We Are Endangering Our Kids Imaginations Passage 2 Milan Leads Fight Against Food Waste Passage 3 How Can We Learn to Reject Fake News in the Digital World? Passage 4 Disaster Communications: Lessons from 9/11 Passage 5 At Least 12 Dead, 48 Injured in Terror Attack on Berlin Christmas Market Unit 9 Global Personage Passage 1 The Magician--Steve Jobs Passage 2 Mel Gibson Passage 3 Baidus Robin Li Is Helping China Win the 21st Century Passage 4 Whitney Houston Passage 5 The Enforcer: Robert Mueller Unit 10 Health and Medical Treatment Passage 1 Low-Fiber Diets Cause Waves of Extinction in the Gut Passage 2 Can Cuba Escape Poverty but Stay Healthy? Passage 3 The Healthcare Gender Bias: Do Men Get Better Medical Treatment? Passage 4 Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct Passage 5 Why Canadians Are Increasingly Seeking Medical Treatment Abroad Unit 11 Government and Law Passage 1 Gay Marriage to Be Illegal in Church of England Passage 2 Stopping SOPA Passage 3 Welsh NHS Violence Prosecutions Hit New Peak Passage 4 What Will Happen to E1 Salvador When the U. S. Ends the Protected Status of Salvadoran Immigrants? Passage 5 Trump Supports Arming Some Teachers in the U. S. Unit 12 Peace and War Passage 1 U.S. Men at War: BlackBerrys and iPads on the Afghan Front Passage 2 Killer Robots Passage 3 Can Warren Buffet Stop the Spread of Nuclear Weapons? Passage 4 Inside Europes Migration Crisis Passage 5 Situation in Afghanistan Has Fundamentally Changed
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