Reading Skill: Skimming
Unit 1 Education
Text I: Bachelor''s Degree: Has It Lost Its Edge and Its Value?
Text II: The "Idea of a University" Today
Unit 2 Body Language
Text I: The Secret Language of Barrier Signals
Text II: Using Body Language
Unit 3 Animals
Text I: What Is Animal Welfare?
Text II: Bird Brains
Unit 4 History
Text I: Models for Understanding History
Text II: History as Conspiracy
Unit 5 Language
Text I: Vocabulary Change
Text II: Some Notes on Gender-Neutral Language
Reading Skill: Scanning
Unit 6 Space
Text I: Giant Leaps: Top Milestones of Human Spaceflight
Text II: Mars Exploration
Unit 7 Women
Text I: Women in Education, Sports and Media
Text II: Women in Science
Unit 8 Cities
Text I: The Unforgettable Hong Kong
Text II: Urbanization and Cities
Unit 9 Cross-Cultural Communication
Text I: Cross-Cultural Differences in How People Communicate
Text II: Cultural Intelligence
Unit 10 Environment
Text I: Climate Change
Text II: China''s Green Leap Forward
Reading Skill: Drawing Inferences
Unit 11 Evolution
Text I: Introduction: Evolution
Text II: Evolution vs. Creation--A Contentious Debate
Unit 12 Transportation
Text I: Sustainable Urban Transportation: Initiatives in Canada
Text II: An Electric Boost for Bicyclists
Unit 13 Time
Text I: The Calendar
Text II: A Brief History of Clock
Unit 14 Television
Text I: How Reality TV Works
Text 1I: Television: The Cyclops That Eats Books
Unit 15 Poetry