New concept college English for extensive reading

Unit One
Part One Text
Stephen Hawking
Part Two Fast Reading
Robert Owen
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Helen Keller

Unit Two
Part One Text
Bush Touts Free Society to Chinese
Part Two Fast Reading
Intellectual Property Rights Protection
Part Three Supplementary Reading
China and the New Asian Century

Unit Three
Part One Text
The Contenders 2008: Hillary Clinton
Part Two Fast Reading
Legislator Who Endorsed Killing of Police Resigns under Fire
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Europe Anticipating American Election

Unit Four
Part One Text
Why Are You Laughing?
Part Two Fast Reading
Mental Health
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Examining the Limits of Life

Unit Five
Part One Text
Cultural Adjustment
Part Two Fast Reading
Cultural Conflict
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Communication across Culture

Unit Six
Part One Text
Key Technologies of the Lunar Orbiting Exploration Project
Part Two Fast Reading
Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Dark Energy in Space

Unit Seven
Part One Text
Cellphones—Growing Techs
Part Two Fast Reading
iPhone
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Applications of Nanotechnology

Unit Eight
Part One Text
Multilateral Trade Liberalization—from GATT to WTO
Part Two Fast Reading
Consumers Strained by Price Surge Last Year
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Free Trade

Unit Nine
Part One Text
2007 Subprime Mortgage Financial Crisis
Part Two Fast Reading
Controversy over “Troop Surge” and Associated Terminology
Part Three Supplementary Reading
2008 Presidential Election Characteristics

Unit Ten
Part One Text
Thomas Watson, Jr., Founder of IBM
Part Two Fast Reading
Pierre Omidyar Biography
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Bill Gates—A Man Neither as Good nor Bad

Unit Eleven
Part One Text
Modern Music: Its Styles, Its Techniques
Part Two Fast Reading(1)(2)
Part Three Supplementary Reading
Leonard Bernstein: A Formidable Musician

Unit Twelve
Part One Text
After Twenty Years
Part Two Fast Reading
Madame Tussaud餾
Part Three Supplementary Reading
The New Café

Unit Thirteen
Part One Text
Contract Formation and Classification
Part Two Fast Reading
The Uniqueness of American Modern Music
Part Three Supplementary Reading
(1) Amendment to Software Reseller Agreement
(2) The Dong Zhi Festival

Unit Fourteen
Part One Text
Ode to the West Wind
Part Two Fast Reading
A Psalm of Life
Part Three Supplementary Reading
She Walks in Beauty

Unit Fifteen
Part One Text
How Do You Know It餾 Good?
Part Two Fast Reading
(1) A Professional Artist
(2) Culture Shock
Part Three Supplementary Reading
The Far睷eaching Influence of Confucius

Key to Exercises