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Unit 1
Waking Up from the American Dream
Reading Skills
Determine the Main Idea
Guessing Vocabulary Items from Context
Unit 2
Move Over,Big Brother
Reading Skills
Skimming
Scanning
Unit 3
The Rise of the Green Building
Reading Skills
Drawing Inferences
Unit 4
A Speech at Tsinghua University
Reading Skills
Technical Prose
Unit 5
Impressions of America
Reading Skills
Reading Newspaper Articles
Reading Magazine Articles
Unit 6
At What Cost Beauty
Writing Skills
Letter
Curriculum Vitae(CV)
Unit 7
Original Thinker
Writing Skills
Electronic Mail
Memo
Unit 8
First Snow
Writing Skills
Abstract
The Research Paper(1)
Revision:Self-assessment Test Ⅰ
Unit 9
When the Brain Says,"Don't Get Too Close"
Writing Skills
The Research Paper(2)
Unit 10
How to Live and Love in the 21st Century
Writing Skills
The Research Paper(3)
Unit 11
Your Next Computer
Translation Skills
Subordinate Clauses(1)—Nominal Clauses
Subordinate Clauses(2)—Adverbial Clauses
Unit 12
Stem-cell Rebels
Translation Skills
Subordinate Clauses(3)—Attributive Clauses
Unit 13
The New Science of Happiness
Translation Skills
Long Sentences
Unit 14
Deadly and Yet Necessary,Quakes Renew the Planet
Translation Skills
Technical Translation
Unit 15
An Ode to Failure
Translation Skills
Translation of Product Specification(Instruction)
Unit 16
Condi on the Rise
Translation Skills
Discourse Translation
Revision:Self-assessment Test Ⅱ
Appendix