Unit 1 College Education Passage A The Value of a College Education Passage B Another Education in University Reading Skills Skimming Supplementary Reading Universities and Their Function Unit 2 Happiness Passage A Happiness Index Passage B Who Are the Happiest People? Reading Skills Scanning Supplementary Reading Black Beauty (Excerpt) Unit 3 Sources of Beauty Passage A Is This Seat Taken? Passage B Reach for the Light Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Context Supplementary Reading The Old Man and the Sea (Excerpt) Unit 4 Build up Blogs Passage A Tips on Writing Content for Your Blog Passage B Comments? Comments... Comments! Reading Skills Guessing the Unknown Words from Word-building Supplementary Reading Ten Things I've Learned about Blogging Unit 5 Kids and Family Passage A The Ring Passage B Driving Lesson Reading Skills Recognizing Words That Connect Ideas Supplementary Reading King Grisly-Beard (Excerpt) Comprehensive Practice I Unit 6 Touch of Life Passage A Everyday Is a Gift Passage B Letting Go of Yesterday Reading Skills Getting Ideas Sorted out by Critical Thinking Supplementary Reading Detour to Romance Unit 7 Friendship Passage A In Praise of Best Friends Passage B A Friend Is Reading Skills Searching for the Main Idea Supplementary Reading Encounters with Manners (Excerpt) Unit 8 Biography Passage A Benjamin Franklin's Memoirs (Excerpt) Passage B Bill Gates in His Boyhood Reading Skills Understanding References and Making Inferences Supplementary Reading The Master of Investment: Warren Buffett Unit 9 Sports Passage A Coming a Long Way, in More Ways than One Passage B The Football Game Reading Skills Recognizing Patterns Supplementary Reading Around the World in Eighty Days (Excerpt) Unit 10 Health Passage A A Simple Guide to Eating out Without Putting on Weight Passage B Vitamin Supplements——A Pill Is Not Always the Answer Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions Supplementary Reading Caught in the Web of the Internet Comprehensive Practice II Key to Exercises