Unit One Family Life
Passage 1 Precious First Born: Mothers Admit They Really Do Favour First Child
Passage 2 A Promise of Flowers
Passage 3 Chinese Culture: Role of Family
Passage 4 What I Want for You A Letter Obama Wrote to His Daughter
Unit Two Culture and Education
Passage 1 A Decline in IQ of the Generations after 1990s?
Passage 2 China Announces Plans for Universal Health Care
Passage 3 UCLA Course Teaches High School Students Language of Their Parents and Grandparents
Passage 4 Flu Drugs 'Unhelpful' in Children
Unit Three sports and Leisure
Passage 1 Golf Set to Join Olympics
Passage 2 The Early History of Wimbledon
Passage 3 Mutu's Case Tests Sport's Private courts
Passage 4 Does Exercise Really Keep Us Healthy?
Unit Four Travel and Entertainment
Passage 1 Worth the Walk
Passage 2 Beijing: Need to Know
Passage 3 Americans on Vacation
Passage 4 Essential (Healthy) Travel Tips
Unit Five Mass Media
Passage 1 Teens, Television, and Depression
Passage 2 Internet
Passage 3 E-book
Passage 4 British Daily Papers
Unit Six Wealth and Health
Passage 1 Swine Flu Kills Dozens in Britain
Passage 2 Experts Criticize Tobacco Control System
Passage 3 Drinking Blamed for Oral Cancer Rise
Passage 4 Ten Facts about Women's Health
Unit Seven Animal World
Passage 1 Chimpanzees 'Hunt Using Spears'
Passage 2 Extinction Hits 'Whole Families'
Passage 3 Wood Harvest Puts Pandas at Risk
Passage 4 Animal Emotions
Unit Eight Social Ethics
Passage 1 SINDIs——The 21st Century Divorced Women
Passage 2 Christian Attitudes to Same-sex Marriage
Passage 3 "Moral Vacuum" in Science Lessons
Passage 4 How to Save the Teens Why Do Some Teens Behave Recklessly?
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