Unit One Family
Passage 1 10 Tips to Get Your Kids Moving
Passage 2 A Family Divided by Obama and McCain
Passage 3 Bunking In with Mom and Dad
Passage 4 When Caring for Aging Parents Brings Back Sibling Tensions
Unit Two Holiday
Passage 1 Thanksgiving Day Celebration in Different Places
Passage 2 Five Things to Do if You Arent Celebrating Christmas
Passage 3 Origins of Christmas and Santa Claus
Passage 4 Chinese New Year
Unit Three Schooling
Passage 1 Students Covering Bigger Share of Costs of College
Passage 2 No Dropouts Left Behind: New Rules on Grad Rates
Passage 3 Should Kids Be Able to Graduate after 10th Grade?
Passage 4 Courting Eighth-Graders ..
Unit Four Technology
Passage 1 Toy Companies Push High-Tech Robotic Toys
Passage 2 Technology: Fighting Noise with Antinoise
Passage 3 The Machines Are Listening
Passage 4 Touch Screens Take Over
Unit Five Successful People
Passage 1 Why Some People Almost Always Are Successful
Passage 2 Bill Gates Tells the Secret of His Success
Passage 3 Hometown Triumph for Tom Jones
Passage 4 Arthur Evans
Unit Six Business
Passage 1 The Crash of 2008
Passage 2 The Outlook for Investing in Green Enelgy
Passage 3 Motown Is Bleak as Big Three Could Become Two
Passage 4 How to Fix a Flat
Unit Seven Environment
Passage 1 Coastal Dead Zones Are Growing
Passage 2 Fossil Fuels Hidden Cost Is in Billions
Passage 3 Exposing the Myth of Clean Coal Power
Passage 4 Beijing Smog Cleanup: Has It Worked?
Unit Eight War and Defence
Passage 1 NATOs Road Map to Nowhere
Passage 2 Behind Americas Shield
Passage 3 Pelosis Defense of War on Gaza Raises Concerns
Passage 4 In Defence of the Environment, Putting Poverty to the Sword
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