Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations
Passage 1 Father's Day Love Story
Passage 2 CCTV Spring Festival Gala
Passage 3 The Golden Horse Film Festival
Passage 4 Is Valentine's Day Necessary?
Passage 5 Day of the'Dead and Its Origins
Passage 6 A Date on April Fool's Day
Passage 7 Our Thanksgiving Days
Passage 8 The Giving Gift
Unit 2 Food and Health
Passage 1 KFC: The Most Popular Western Restaurant in China!
Passage 2 Oh, Poor Me-No Junk Food in My Childhood?
Passage 3 Six Tips for Healthy Eating
Passage 4 Weight Loss
Passage 5 We Have a Growing Appetite for Unhealthy Food
Passage 6 Emotional Eating
Passage 7 Our Battle
Passage 8 What Should You Watch Out for Detox Diets?
Unit 3 Mark Twain and His Works
Passage 1 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (excerpt)
Passage 2 Short Stories of Mark Twain
Passage 3 A Brief Introduction to Mark Twain
Passage 4 Buying Gloves in Gibraltar
Passage 5 About Li fe on the Mississippi
Passage 6 Money Matters, but Money Isn't Everything
Passage 7 A Dog's Tale
Passage 8 Mark Twain on the Train
Unit 4 Mysterions Science
Passage 1 Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
Passage 2 A Story of Stars
Passage 3 Come to Enjoy Meteor Showers
Passage 4 Women in Astronomy
Passage 5 Kepler-22b, Human's New Home?
Passage 6 The Legend of the Sun, the Moon, and Stars
Passage 7 The Bermuda Triangle
Passage 8 Dinosaur Extinction
Unit 5 Canada
Passage 1 A Kid's Life in Canada
Passage 2 "Big Mountain" Connects Canada and China
Passage 3 My Canada Story
Passage 4 My Favorite Place: Toronto
Passage 5 0ttawa and Tulips
Passage 6 Survival of a Canadian Missing Boy
Passage 7 A Different Life in Canada
Passage 8 The Story of Norman Bethune
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