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 ....
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 temperatur...
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 e...
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 Inte...
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 fr...
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...
Lesson 4 Does Criticism Do More Harm Than Good to People? Text A Yoang Woman Who Fears Compliments Marya, a brilliant graduate student in her early twenties who came for consultation, insisted that sh...
Lesson 3 Should the Brain Drain Be Stopped by Restrictions? Text Brain Drain It is said that Shanghai's musicians abroad could form a worldclass symphony orchestra. But the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra...
Lesson 2 Are Pets Good for Mankind? Text Pets Are Good for You The basic meaning of "pet" is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. A pet animal is kept as a companion, and we a...
Lesson 1 Does Television Play a Positive or Negative Role in the Modern Society? Text Do the Advantages of Television Outweigh the Disadvantages? Television is now playing a very important part in our...