Preface
Unit One Men and Women 3
Part I Pre-reading Activities 3
Part II Reading Tasks 4
Passage 1 Terra-cotta Warriors Get ‘Sex Change’4
Passage 2 Six Ways to Tackle the Gender Pay Gap7
Passage 3 Jane Eyre12
Part III Post-reading Tasks 14
Part IV Cultural Panorama 15
Unit Two Becoming Greener 17
Part I Pre-reading Activities 17
Part II Reading Tasks 18
Passage 1 Now China’s Super Rich Are Fleeing to Avoid Smog 18
Passage 2 Six Green Resolutions That Lead to Happiness22
Passage 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 26
Part III Post-reading Tasks 28
Part IV Cultural Panorama 29
Unit Three Music World 33
Part I Pre-reading Activities 33
Part II Reading Tasks 34
Passage 1 Mounting A Musical Peak34
Passage 2 Fascinating, Infuriating, Enduring: Bob Dylan Deserves His Nobel prize38
Passage 3 The Old Man And The Sea 43
Part III Post-reading Tasks 45
Part IV Cultural Panorama 46
Unit Four Travelling Around 48
Part I Pre-reading Activities 48
Part II Reading Tasks 49
Passage 1 How to Get the Most out of Visiting World-Famous Sites 49
Passage 2 A Museum of Mission54
Passage 3 The American Scholar 59
Part III Post-reading Tasks 62
Part IV Cultural Panorama 63
Unit Five Ivory Towers 67
Part I Pre-reading Activities 67