UNIT ONE Cultural Literacy
Passage 1 Cultural Literacy for the Young and the Nation
Passage 2 The Importance of Cultural Literacy
UNIT TWO Getting Things Done
Passage 1 The Art of the Doable To-do List
Passage 2 GettingThings Done: TheArt of Stress-free Productivity
UNIT THREE Controversiallssues
Passage 1 Write orWrong: The Death of Handwriting?
Passage 2 Is Cloning Ethical and Should It Be Pursued?
UNIT FOUR Environmentallssues
Passage 1 Your Home: Healthy or Unhealthy?
Passage 2 Chemistry and Clouds
UNIT FIVE Tradition
Passage 1 My Culture Shock Experience
Passage 2 Spring Festival Traditions
UNIT SIX Disaster
Passage 1 Seasonal Flu and Swine Flu Fundamentals
Passage 2 Death Dust: The Valley-fever Menace
UNIT SEVEN Emergency
Passage 1 At the Critical Moment
Passage 2 Japan's Radioactive Nightmare
UNIT EIGHT Books
Passage 1 WorldDigitaILibrary
Passage 2 Alice Munro
UNIT NINE Magazines
Passage 1 Seattle,Washington
Passage 2 Magazine Industry Soars
UNIT TEN Health
Passage 1 Dancingin the Park
Passage 2 SwedeAmbitions
UNIT ELEVEN Life Choices
Passage 1 Life Is All About Choices
Passage 2 We Are WhatWe Choose
UNIT TWELVE Holidays
Passage 1 Japanese Girls' Day
Passage 2 BoxingDay
UNIT THIRTEEN Inventions (1)
Passage 1 Paper-thin Batteries Made from Algae
Passage 2 TheYo-yo
UNIT FOURTEEN Inventions (2)
Passage 1 Clever New Fan Has No Blades
Passage 2 Four Greatlnventions
UNIT FIFTEEN Prism of the World
Passage 1 Life's Five Toughest Questions
Passage 2 How to Choose the Right Job
UNIT SIXTEEN Enjoying the World
Passage 1 Unexpected Pleasures of Walking in Madrid
Passage 2 The March of Xi'an's Terracotta Army
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