本书以主题划分章节，共分12个主题，所选文章涵盖了政治、社会、环境、科技、校园、文化、休闲、名人、教育、医疗等多方面的内容，材料充实，生动活泼，可读性强。每个单元包括5篇文章，基本上是按照从易到难的原则安排。每篇文章后附有New Words、Phrases and Expressions和Proper Names部分，可供学习者参考和使用。 本书可供各高等院校英语专业和非英语专业学生使用，同时广大英语工作者、英语爱好者、英语自学者也适用。
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 Car's Computer Got Smarter in 2015
Passage 3 Recovering Memory:Can a New Device Help Amnesia Patients？
Passage 4 China's 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 Britain's 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 China's Mystic Waters
Unit 6 China-related Issues
Passage 1 Is It a Bird？ A Plane？
Passage 2 The Slow Boat from China
Passage 3 China's 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 911
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 Baidu's 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 Europe's Migration Crisis
Passage 5 Situation in Afghanistan Has Fundamentally Changed
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