《出国留学英语强化阅读英语 上》

Unit 1 The Healing Art1

Unit 2 Fighting the Pack Mentality6

Unit 3 Coming Up Short12

Unit 4 Time to Choose18

Unit 5 Feeding Frenzy23

Unit 6 Don't Spare the Rod28

Unit 7 The Addictive Personality33

Unit 8 Overstressed by Success39

Unit 9 Give Me Your Rich, and Stay44

Unit 10 Insects Used to Nail a Criminal49

Unit 47 Japan's Quality Quandary52

Uint 11 The Little Boy Who Couldn't Cry54

Unit 12 The Language of the Future?60

Unit 13 They Eat Lion Meat65

Unit 14 I Am American Too70

Unit 15 The Myth of German Efficiency (Ⅰ)76

Unit 16 The Myth of German Efficiency (Ⅱ)82

Unit 17 Be Kind to Your Child87

Unit 18 The Fate of Bicycles93

Unit 19 Nightmare in "The Tube"98

Unit 20 Sweet Dreams or Nightmare?103

Unit 21 Wives before Their Time109

Unit 22 Falling Further Behind115

Unit 23 Every Man for Himself121

Unit 24 A Vote for the Future126

Unit 25 For Longer Life, Take a Wife132

Unit 26 Can the Mind Help Cure Disease?137

Unit 27 At the Universities, Admissions for Sale142

Unit 28 Problems with Japanese Homogeneity148

Unit 29 Facing Ghosts from the Past153

Unit 30 The Boy Who Chased Cars158

Unit 31 Still Psychic Captives163

Unit 32 The Shadow of Hiroshima170

Unit 33 All in the Family176

Unit 34 Living with a Family182

Unit 35 The Picture Suddenly Gets Clearer187

Unit 36 Program Tells on the Cheats192

Unit 37 Can Anyone Work the Video?198

Unit 38 On the Scent of a Better Day at Work204

Unit 39 Pricing Cars off City Streets209

Unit 40 Airport Detectors. Not Ready for Terrorists214

Unit 41 How to Choose Your PhD. Supervisor220

Unit 42 Cold Bed and Breakfast225

Unit 43 Standing Up to Earthquakes230

Unit 44 Heroines and Role Models235

Unit 45 The Lightbulb That Lasts241

Unit 46 Not Too Much of a Headache247

Unit 48 Suing Cigarette Makers258

Unit 49 Why is It Difficult to Put Names to Faces?263

Unit 50 An Ambassador Abroad268

Unit 51 Bakari's Perspective273

Unit 52 Labor of Love279

Unit 53 Enterprise Singapore Style285

Unit 54 It Takes More Than Food to Cure Starvation291

Unit 55 Where Children Come First296

Appendix Ⅰ: Answer Key302

Appendix Ⅱ: Chinese Translations of the Texts (for Reference Only)305

Appendix Ⅲ. Index to New Words And Expressions in the Texts352