Unit 1
Text How to Measure What You Learned in College
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Six Ways to Be Happy with Your College Choice
Passage 2 Funding in American Higher Education
Unit 2
Text A Worldwide Gender Gap
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Women?s Position in the 17th Century
Passage 2 Gaining Ground on the Wage Front
Unit 3
Text What Animals Really Think:Food,Warmth, Sleep?
Their Thoughts May Be Much Deeper Than That
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 How Did Dogs Become Adept at Playing to Humans?
Passage 2 Death of a Tiger
Unit 4
Text Tide of Grief
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Tide of Grief(continued)
Passage 2 In the Wake of the Tsunami
Unit 5
Text Fighting “Big Fat”
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 It?s Not the Carbs, Stupid
Passage 2 A Gene That Says,“No More”
Unit 6
Text Artful Aging
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Four Rules for Living a Long Healthy Life
Passage 2 The Power of Positive Thinking
Unit 7
Text Merchants of Death
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Humans Were Born to Run, Fossil Study Suggests
Passage 2 A Job or a Cigarette?
Unit 8
Text Testing the Science of Intelligence
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 In Defiance of Darwin
Passage 2 Color?Coordinated “Truths”
Unit 9
Text Scientists Try to Find out What?s So Funny about Humor
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Searching for the Divine
Passage 2 Spiders Watch Their Diets Too,Study Says
Unit 10
Text What?s in a Name?
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Developing a Company Image and Brand
Passage 2 Brand Management:Define Your Identity, Then Stick to It
Unit 11
Text Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact with the Earth in 2880?
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Prehistoric Asteroid“Killed Everything”
Passage 2 “Dinosaur?Killer”Asteroid Crater Imaged for First Time
Unit 12
Text Green Burials:Thinking Outside the Box
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Home Funerals: An Old Tradition Returns
Passage 2 Waste Leads to Worry in Indonesia
Unit 13
Text When Does Autism Start?
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 When Does Autism Start?(continued)
passage 2 Lost and Found: One Woman?s Remarkable Transformation
Unit 14
Text Border Net Has Become a Noose
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
Passage 2 Turning a Corner
Unit 15
Text Is It Apocalypse Now?
Supplementary Reading
Passage 1 Is It Apocalypse Now?(continued)
Passage 2 The End Is Not at Hand