日期：2007-12-21 2. Those Who Do Not Want to Go to College According to the August lOth issue of The Youth , out of 30, 000 school graduates in Shanghai who could take the college entrance examination this year only 23,000 sat for it. What happened to all the others... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 5 Is It Good for Students to Have Part-time Jobs？ Text School Part-timers More and more high school students in Beijing are turning their minds to ways of making money. They are capitalizing on opportunities such as one group of students who... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. Mercy or Murder？ On June 20, 1973, 23 year old Lester M . Zygnamiak walked into his older brother George,s hospital room at Jersey Shore Medical Centre in Neptune, New Jersey, and shot his brother dead. George had been paralyzed from the neck do... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 6 Is Euthanasia Humane？ Text A Doctor of Good Repntation Hastened His Patient's Death The most famous mercy killing case in America's history involves Dr. Herman N. Sanders, a country doctor from New Hampshire. In the early 1950s Dr. Sanders... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. The General Certificate of Education at O Level When people discuss education they insist that preparation for examiriations is not the main purpose. They are right in theory, but in practice, we all realize how importarit examinations are. What d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 7 Do Examinations Do More Harm Than Good？ Text On Eggs and Exams I've been acting like an egg striking a rock. What is this egg？ It's the campaign against the old-fashioned way of teaching Intensive Reading . And what' s the rock？。 It' s t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 7 Do Examinations Do More Harm Than Good？ Text On Eggs and Exams I've been acting like an egg striking a rock. What is this egg？ It's the campaign against the old-fashioned way of teaching Intensive Reading . And what' s the rock？。 It' s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 7 Do Examinations Do More Harm Than Good？ Text On Eggs and Exams I've been acting like an egg striking a rock. What is this egg？ It's the campaign against the old-fashioned way of teaching Intensive Reading . And what' s the rock？。 It' s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. I Feel Better with Vegetarian Food I grew up in Texas on double cheeseburgers with hickory sauce, chili, fried. chicken, T-bone steaks, and eggs. Many people report that they lose the taste for animal foods after eating a vegetarian diet for a whi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 8 Should We Diet in Order to Keep Fit？ Text How Does It Feel to Lose Weight？ Here is a conversation between a heart specialist and a heart patient. Vic： I've been feeling very lonely. I can't explain it, I'm in a crowd but I feel lonely. An... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 3. Population Increase Has Wiped out the Material Benefits People Have Achieved Matthew： Sarah, is there a need to control population only in countries like India, Africa, Brazil. . . those countries that we.call the underdeveloped countries, or is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 9 Is It a Good Idea to Control Population Growth in the World？ Text What Overpopulation Feels Like We moved slowly through the city in a taxi and entered a crowded slum district. The temperature was well over 100and the air was thick with dus... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 4. Traditional Schools Face Challenge Every Tuesday and Friday, 6-year-old Huang Kan goes to an evening class to learn how to play the piano. He shows little interest in this extra class, but his mother is willing to pay 18 yuan a month for his tuiti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 10 Should Students Only Learn from Books？ Text Try to Find out about Real Life During my recent tour to Kunming in Yunnan Province, I encountered a young Australian at Liuzhou railway station . I helped him get on board the train with his lug... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 3. Parental Piety Is Taken to Extremes The dictionary defines filial piety as a son's or daughter's obedience to and respect for parents。 It is a pity that in reality the implication of this expression has changed in China, a nation so proud of this... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lessvn 11 Does Parental Permissiveness Affect Children's Development？ Text Who Is to Blame, Mimi, or Her Parents？ I always thought Xiao Hong a sl；oilt and wilful child, but today I met a girl a hundred times worse. Compared to her, Xiao Hong is a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 3. Yunnan Makes Efforts to Boost Tourism Starting from scratch, tourism in Yunnan Province has made progress by leaps and bounds in the last decade. Only 1, 284 foreign tourists went there in 1978, the year when the provincial tourism bureau was esta... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 12 Is It Necessary to Develop Toarism？ Text A Little Good Will Can Help People Understand Each Other Today we had an American family, the Robinsons, for Sunday dinner. The man is in China on a joint project with the department where Mum works... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 2. What Is the Value of Work？ Matthew： Chris, what do you think the value of work is？ Chris： Well, I think it in our present-day society um for most people, work has very little value at all um Most of us go out to work for about eight to nine ho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-21 Lesson 13 Work to Live or Live to Work？ Text What Does Work Mean to People？ A group of people from different walks of life are being interviewed about what role vork plays in their lives. Their attitudes, as we can see, vary. Interviewer： Mr. Fis... 阅读全文>>