Unit 1 Job Hunting
Text A The More One Learns, the More One Loses
Text B Tips on Job Hunting
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading A CV Example
Unit 2 The Other Side of the World
Text A What Do You Say after You've Said "Hello"?
Text B Pets Are Almost Like Family
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading The "War" over the Traffic Police
Unit 3 Science
Text A Can Babies Be Designed?
Text B Computer and Chess
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading Top 10 mysteries in Space
Unit 4 Sports Heroes
Text A Li Ning
Text B Michael Jordan
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading Lance Armstrong
Unit 5 Food We Eat
Text A Holiday Eating--Food for Thought
Text B Working Dinner
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading Food Shock
Unit 6 Unusual Families
Text A Confessions of a Stepmother
Text B Come to Our House
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading Foster Adoptions
Unit 7 Environmental Protection
Text A Pollution Is a Dirty Word
Text B Waste Deep
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading 40 Ways to Save the Earth
Unit 8 World Rivers
Text A River and Civilization
Text B The Huang He
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading The Mississippi River
Unit 9 Focus on China
Text A A Year without "Made in China"
Text B North American Hospitality --Underdone
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading Learn to Get Along with China--A prominent American's letter to his grandchildren
Unit 10 Father and Son
Text A Rooftops
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Unit 11 Movies
Unit 12 Automobiles
Key to Some of the Exercises