[nit 1 CULTURE

Lesson 01 Big and Beautiful? . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Lesson 02 The Japanese Tea Ceremony . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Unit 2 ARTS & LITERATURE

Lesson 03 Henrik Ibsen . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Lesson 04 Marc Chagall . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Review 1

Lesson 05 Urban Legends: Fact or Fiction? .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Lesson 06 Louis Armstrong . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Unit 3 POLITICS & BUSINESS

Lesson 07 You GO, Girls! . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Lesson 08 What Caused the Global Financial
Crisis? . . . . . . . . . . 42

Review 2

Lesson 09 Online Shopping Clubs . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Lesson 10 Go for the Gold! . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Unit 4 TECHNOLOGY

Lesson 11 Cyberbullying . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Lesson 12 Social Networks—User Beware! . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Unit 5 SCIENCE

Lesson 13 Love is Like a Drug . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Lesson 14 Doomsday? . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Review 3

Lesson 15 Pheromones, Our Sixth Sense . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Lesson 16 Human Androids . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Unit 6 HEALTH

Lesson 17 Fake Health Food . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Lesson 18 Monsters Inside You! . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Unit 7 ENTERTAINMENT

Lesson 19 The Vampire Phenomenon . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Lesson 20 (Un)Reality TV . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Review 4

Lesson 21 Asperger's Syndrome . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Lesson 22 Justin Bieber . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Unit 8 NATURE

Lesson 23 The Battle of the Bees . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Lesson 24 Plate Tectonics . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Unit 9 TRAVEL

Lesson 25 Napa Valley . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Lesson 26 Quebec City . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Review 5

Lesson 27 Cycling in the Netherlands . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Lesson 28 Big Bugs! . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Unit 10 SPORTS

Lesson 29 Ousted Olympic Sports . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Lesson 30 Competitive Eating . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Unit 11 LIFE

Lesson 31 An Introduction to Aromatherapy .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Lesson 32 The Smaller, the Better? . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Review 6

Lesson 33 Road Rage . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Lesson 34 Lance Armstrong . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

單詞索引 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

翻譯及答案 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Unit 1 CULTURE

Lesson 01 Big and Beautiful?

Target Vocabulary

1 industry [??nd?str?] n. 工業；企業；行業

2 rural [?r??r?l] adj. 農村的；田園的

3 tradition [tr??d??n] n. 傳統

4 obese [???bi:s] adj. 過胖的

5 calorie [?kæl?r?] n.（熱量單位）卡；卡路裡；千卡

6 prospect [?pr?spekt] n.（成功的）可能性；前景；前途

7 generation [?d?en??re??n] n. 世代；一代；同時代的人

8 couscous [?k?sk?s] n. 蒸粗麥粉（北非菜名）

9 will [w?l] n. 意願

10 diabetes [?da???bi:ti:z] n. 糖尿病

11 modern [?m?dn] adj. 現代的；現代化的

Big and Beautiful?

Weight loss has become a multi-billion
dollar industry1 in many parts of the world. But in rural2 western Africa, where
tradition3

values obese4 women, many young Mauritanian
girls are force-fed (also known as gavage 1 ) to become more attractive to men.
While many women across the globe count calories 5, skip desser t , and pay for
expensive gym memberships, ten percent of Mauri tanian women are overeating to
pack on the pounds2, all in the name of beauty.

"A thin woman feels like bones. A fat
woman feels soft. It is interesting and exciting. When a woman is big, it shows
that she is well taken care of because her family can afford to feed her a
lot," says 25-year-old male Mohammed M'Barek. "It is tradition. It is
our culture."

A recent study suggests that this custom is
dying out. While over one-third of Mauritanian women over-ate to improve
marriage prospects6

a generation7 ago, only about 10 percent
continue to engage in the practice. Many of these young girls are sent to
fat farms" to consume foods high in calories, such as couscous8 and
cow and goat's milk, to gain weight. For many, it is against their will9. It is
not uncommon for girls to be woken up in the middle of the night to eat and to
be punished for refusing to eat.

"This tradition is old-fashioned.
Obesity is known to cause many health issues such as diabetes10 and heart
disease. I don't want my daughter to die young," said the mother of a
nine-year-old girl who will not be sent to one of many "fat farms" in
rural Mauritania along with

some of her friends. "Modern11
Mauritanian women want to eat normally and be healthy, not be force-fed."

1 gavage（法文），指強飼。

2 pack on the pounds 指增胖。

After You Read

A. Reading Skill: 用“5W1H”獲取信息

報刊文章通常會有一定的格式。了解此類文章的撰寫方式，可以幫助讀者找出文章的重要信息。一般來說，文章的段會提供整篇文章重要的信息。而另一個可以幫助讀者找出重要信息的方式，就是通過下列的“5W1H”來獲取信息：

5W1H：

How ... is the story about?

Who ... is the story about?

What ... is the story about?

Where ... does the story take place?

When ... does the story take place?

Why ... is this happening?

Re-read the first paragraph of the reading
passage and complete the chart below.

Who?

What?

Where?

When?

Why?

How?

B. Word Study: 同義詞

英文裡有非常多的同義詞，同義詞（synonym）指具有相同或相近意思的單詞或短語。作者在寫作時通常會使用同義詞，以增加文章的變化性和可讀性。在本篇文章中，就包含了許多同義詞，包括：

fat, big, and obese tradition and custom
eat and consume 2 Use synonyms found in the Word Box to fill in the blanks.

1. Jessica prefers modern (contemporary)
furniture in her home.

2. People across the (world) share some of
the same ideals for beauty.

3. It is (rare) for there to still be snow
on the ground in May.

4. If you want to keep (fit), don't eat
junk food.

5. The student was (reprimanded) for
starting a fight at school.

6. Maria (declined) the job offer.

2 Target Vocabulary

From the list of target vocabulary, choose
the word that best completes the sentence.

rural prospect calorie diabetes generation
industry couscous will

1. The health food is
constantly growing.

2. Margaret attended piano lessons against
her to please her mother.

3. My uncle was diagnosed with at
his last doctor's appointment.

4. Many families choose to raise their
children in communities.

5. How many are in one
slice of pizza?

6. Most people from my grandmother's are
unfamiliar with new technology.

7. Jane says the of
finding a job in the field aren't very high.

8. I think I'll make
instead of rice to serve with the chicken.

3 Critical Thinking

1. What might be some of the challenges
young girls in Mauritania face when being sent to a fat farm against their
will?

2. Imagine a young Mauritanian girl asks
you for advice on whether or not she should begin gavage. What advice would you
give her?

3. What are some beliefs you would assume a
Mauritanian man has if he supports the force-feeding of young women?

4. What are some of the pressures women and
/ or men in your culture have faced throughout history to meet standards of
beauty?