UNIT 01 Animals
READING 1 Alligator Snapping Turtle
READING 2 Saiga Antelope

UNIT 02 Technology
READING 1 Energy Harvesting
READING 2 A Bionic Hand
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 01·UNIT 02

UNIT 03 Space
READING 1 Space Junk
READING 2 The Giant Magellan Telescope

UNIT 04 People
READING 1 Victor Hugo Green
READING 2 Maria Mitchell
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 03·UNIT 04

UNIT 05 Environment
READING 1 Avocados
READING 2 TOEFL (The Gaia Hypothesis)

UNIT 06 Economics
READING 1 Loss Aversion
READING 2 The Veblen Effect
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 05·UNIT 06

UNIT 07 Social Issues
READING 1 Underpopulation
READING 2 Sweatshops

UNIT 08 Psychology
READING 1 Generalized Anxiety Disorder
READING 2 The Ulysses Contract
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 07·UNIT 08

UNIT 09 Culture
READING 1 Turkish Coffee
READING 2 Uros Floating Islands

UNIT 10 Art
READING 1 Pablo Picasso
READING 2 TOEFL (Neoclassicism and Romanticism)
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 09·UNIT 10

UNIT 11 Business
READING 1 Marketing Strategies
READING 2 Multi-National Business

UNIT 12 Literature
READING 1 Jules Verne
READING 2 Walden (by Henry David Thoreau)
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 11·UNIT 12

UNIT 13 Food
READING 1 Lobster
READING 2 Colors of Food

UNIT 14 Architecture
READING 1 Nek Chand Rock Garden
READING 2 Antoni Gaudi
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 13·UNIT 14

UNIT 15 Biology
READING 1 Baobab Trees
READING 2 TOEFL (Toxins for Medicine)
WORD REVIEW TEST UNIT 15

1.
Current and Academic Topics: The textbook texts mainly cover current and academic topics, but are written in an easy and fun way suitable for middle and high school students.

2.
Expanding Background Knowledge: Each unit consists of two reading passages under a single topic, providing a variety of useful content to broaden students' background knowledge.

3.
Reading Skills Practice: Develop faster and more strategic reading skills through reading skill corners such as Skimming, Scanning, Understanding the main idea, and Inferring meaning, as well as application problems.

4.
Long Reading Practice: Students who don't read a lot of long passages often have difficulty reading long passages.
To address this, we have included interesting and logically structured texts to help you practice reading long passages.
Additionally, summary-type questions are included for each passage to improve your ability to understand and summarize the passage.

5. TOEFL Test Preparation: A separate TOEFL corner provides a chance to experience the actual test by solving TOEFL-type questions.

6.
Strengthen Vocabulary Learning: The foundation of reading comprehension is vocabulary skills.
You can learn key vocabulary for each unit through English definitions, and learn about collocations, synonyms, and antonyms in the Word Focus corner.
Effective vocabulary learning is achieved by reviewing key words and important expressions using the Word Review Test and the vocabulary list provided as an appendix.