Unit One Interests and Hobbies
Passage 1 How Self-Acceptance Leads to Happiness Within
Passage 2 Be Still
Passage 3 Adventurous Hobbies
Passage 4 How to Choose a Hobby that Suits You
Unit Two Life and Fashion
Passage 1 Facial Make-up
Passage 2 Determine the Shape of Your Face
Passage 3 Greening Your Office
Passage 4 How to Lose Weight The Basics of Weight Loss
Unit Three Language and Culture
Passage 1 "China Threat" Fear Countered by Culture
Passage 2 Languages Change
Passage 3 How Culture Influences Language
Passage 4 How to Learn a Foreign I.anguage: Finding a Great Language Helper
Unit Four Love and Marriage
Passage 1 Just Love Doesn't Keep a Marriage Going
Passage 2 The American Way: Marriage
Passage 3 High Costs Force Us to Wait
Passage 4 Love and Marriage
Unit Five Myths and Legends
Passage 1 A Legendary King
Passage 2 Yerba Mate, and the legend of the Guarani
Passage 3 Nt Wa
Passage 4 The Legend of Saint Nicholas
Unit Six History and Culture
Passage 1 The Road to Revolution
Passage 2 "Old Glory": The American Flag
Passage 3 The Renaissance
Passage 4 Princess Wencheng--Bridging the Different Cultures
Unit Seven Emerging Technology
Passage 1 First Robot Scientist Makes Gene Discovery
Passage 2 Man Uses Chip to Control Robot with Thoughts
Passage 3 A New Single-Lens Camera Able to Capture 3D Images
Passage 4 Electrified Flowers Make Astonishing Artworks
Unit Eight Mysteries of the Universe
Passage 1 The Secret of How Our Brains Switch on an Itch
Passage 2 Mysteries of Humpback Migration
Passage 3 Top Five Strangest Things in the Universe
Passage 4 Sleep Science. The Mystery of Dreams and Dreaming