Unit 1
Text A-1 How to Study
Text A-2 Learning to Keep Your Cool During Tests
Text B-1 Paying Your Way
Text B-2 The Day I Went to Open a Bank Account
Unit 2
Text A-1 Remembering My Grandparents
Text A-2 Leaf and Loaf
Text B-1 The True Story of a Young Man
Text B-2 A Game of Light and Shade
Unit 3
Text A-1 A Long Walk Home
Text A-2 Two Kinds
Text B-1 Rites of Passage
Text B-2 The Last Adventure
Unit 4
Text A-1 The Fun and Excitement of "Reality" .
Text A-2 Future Talk
Text B-1 Electronic Mail Brings Business Closer Together
Text B-2 Talk to Me
Unit 5
Text A-1 A Young, Blind Expert on Computers
Text A-2 As Dream Comes True
Text B-1 Go for the Gold
Text B-2 Across the Frozen Sea
Unit 6
Text A-1 Feminine Force
Text A-2 Women
Text B-1 Women in the Workforce
Text B-2 Pockety Women Unite?
Unit 7
Text A-1 Why English?
Text A-2 Reading -- the Most Important Way to Learn English
Text B-1 Two Languages
Text B-2 Conversational Ball Games
Unit 8
Text A-1 Acid Rain
Text A-2 Industry and the Environment
Text B-1 Global Warming May Not End Up Being Warm at All
Text B-2 Rubbish Disposal
Appendix
Key to Comprehension Exercises