Unit 1 Language Acquisition
Text A Language and Children
Text B Conversational Ball Games
Text C Reading-the Most Important Way to Learn English
Unit 2 Education
Text A Forms of Teaching
Text B Methods of Education: East and West
Text C Ditch the Calculators
Unit 3 Food and Health
Text A Food and Health
Text B Thinness and Health
Text C Americans and Food
Unit 4 Environment
Text A Global Warming and the Earth's Climate
Text B Grand Canyon Crowding
Text C On Ecotourism
Unit 5 Computers
Text A The Era of Web
Text B The Importance of a.,Computer
Text C Computer Crime
Unit 6 Social Life
Text A The Traffic Light: A Brainless Machine
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness
Text C Why All the Celebrity Worship?
Unit 7 Customs
Text A Asking for a Tip
Text B Germans and Intrusions
Text C Customs
Unit 8 Living Experience
Text A My Airport Experience
Text B Coming of Age
Text C How I Got Smart?
Unit 9 International Situation
Text A Trends of the World Development
Text B What Will the World Be Like in Fifty Years?
Text C The Effect of Oslo Attacks on Europe
Unit 10 Economy and Development
Text A The Affluent Society
Text B Improving Industrial Efficiency Through Robotics
Text C The Split of Lawmakers
Unit 11 Foreign Affairs
Text A The Middle East in the Era of Independence
Text B Live and Let Live-New Strategy
Text C A Good Omen for Sino-US Relations
Unit 12 Religion
Text A Country Churches: Bruised Survivors
Text B Islam: My Story of Belief
Text C Religion at Work
Unit 13 Wars
Text A Violence within Human Society
Text B Buzz-bombs and Doodlebugs
Text C Memories of Afghanistan
Unit 14 Space Exploration
Text A Sunspots
Text B Space Tourism
Text C The Shuttle Ends Its Voyage and an Era in Space
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