Contents

Unit 1 　Culture

Text 1　Wedding Customs

Text 2　Knowing Your Taste

Text 3　The King Herself

Text 4　Culture Shock

Unit 2 　Education

Text 1　Language and Knowledge

Text 2　Can the Problems Be Solved?

Text 3　Letters of Application

Text 4 English Grows into Strange Shapes When Transplanted into Foreign Soil

Unit 3 　People

Text 1　Ocean Hero

Text 2　Thomas Edison

Text 3　Desiree Davila Targeting Chicago and a Fast Time This Fall

Text 4　My Year in the Arctic

Unit 4 　Literary Criticism

Text 1　The Themes that Shakespeare Explores

Text 2　New Criticism

Text 3　Decoding Narrative: Conflict, Stages and Characters

Text 4　Middle English Literature

Unit 5 　Literature

Text 1　Captain Isaiah Sellers

Text 2　Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1

Text 3　Icarus and Daedalus

Text 4　Studies in the Park

Text 5　Waiting for the Plane

Text 6　The End of the Affair

Text 7　Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

Unit 6 　Society

Text 1　A Defense of Advertising

Text 2　Social Darwinism

Text 3　Diamond Shipwreck

Unit 7 　Sports

Text 1　Fear FactorsSuccess and Risk in Extreme Sports

Text 2　Bringing the World Together

Unit 8 　Science and Technology

Text 1　Public Support Geoengineering Research, Survey Findings

Text 2　How to Speak a Book

Text 3　What Is Science?

Text 4　Unmasking Virus Writers and Hackers

Answers for Reference