Unit 1Holidays and Festivals
Passage 1 The Lantem Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival
Passage 2 Mother's Day and Father's Day
Passage 3 Christmas Day
Unit 2Learning and Development
Passage 1 Learning Disabilities
Passage 2 Rock Solid Readers
Passage 3 Do You Expect Too Much of Your Kids
Unit 3 College Education
Passage I Graduation
Passage 2 Educational Equality in America
Passage 3 Colleges Encourage Students to Stay on Four-Year Track
Unit 4Sports and Recreation
Passage 1Women in Sports
Passage 2 Parachuting —— a Popular Sport
Passage 3Why Women Can't Play Games7
Unit 5Environment and Human Life
Passage 1 Talkin' Trash
Passage 2 Cleaner Cooking Fuels Cut Greenhouse
Gases, Save Lives
Passage 3 Air Pollution
Unit 6Biography
Passage 1 Mary Kay
Passage 2 The Diana Decades
Passage 3 Gwendolyn Brooks
Unit 7Marriage
Passage I Marriage in Medieval Times
Passage 2 The Story of an Hour
Passage 3 God Changed My Perspective
Unit 8Entertainment
Passage I Titanic
Passage 2 The Open Window
Passage 3 What Makes a Great Film?
Unit 9Media and Communication
Passage 1 History of Communication
Passage 2 American Media
Passage 3 Tears Without Darkness
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