Unit 1 Ethics
Passage A When Kids Say iLl hate you
Passage B Study Finds Factors for Overcoming lsolation
Passage C Why Mothers Are Girls' Best Friends
Passage D Husband and Wife Heart Transplant
Unit 2 Taboos
Passage A Food Taboos: It's All a Matter of Taste
Passage B Wisdom from the Sea: 3 Life Lessons from the Ocean
Passage C Tattoos No Longer Taboo
Passage D Do Food Taboos Change and Disappear?
Unit 3 Society
Passage A Become a Chief Executive Officer
Passage B First Rule of Good Management: Treat Shipmates Respectfully
Passage C Recession Can Change a Way of Life
Passage D How the Brain Benefits with Aging
Unit 4 Occupation
Passage A Too Shy to Hunt Job?
Passage B Life at Sea in the Age of Sail
Passage C No Reply to Your Resume? Here's Why
Passage D Finding a Summer Job or Internship
Unit 5 Environment
Passage A Our Addiction to Oil Is Draining Every Last Drop
Passage B Noise Pollution Rising at Sea
Passage C Consumers Are Recycling and Buying "Green"
Passage D Fight over Lead Pollution
Unit 6 Future
Passage A Future Tense
Passage B A Little Oil Goes a Long Way
Passage C The Future Is Urban
Passage D Time Is Money
Unit 7 Science
Passage A Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee mystery
Passage B Why do Whales Beach Themselves?
Passage C How Freud Changed What People Thought About the Mind !
Passage D On the Left Hand, There Are No Easy Answers
Unit 8 Literature
Passage A Oliver Twist (Excerpt)
Passage B Durham-The Galveston Voyage (Excerpt)
Passage C The Birthmark
Passage D The Open Window
Key to the Exercises