Unit One Part OneText Americans Are Queer(1) Part TwoFast Reading Chinese Culture Broadens Its World Influence(5) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading Language Barriers(7) Unit Two Part OneText April Fools Day(10) Part TwoFast Reading The Thanksgiving Story(15) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading Dates and Origins(18) Unit Three Part OneText Miracle at Niagara(21) Part TwoFast Reading You Dont Have to Be Perfect(26) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading Perils of Prohibition(30) Unit Four Part OneText School Costs Are Rising in Britain, Too(34) Part TwoFast Reading Factory Life—A Students Experience(37) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading (1) Budget Puts Students in More Debt(41) (2) Poster(43) Unit Five Part OneText Let Your Mind Wander(44) Part TwoFast Reading How to Motivate People to Work?(48) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading Ways to Get a Happy State of Mind(51) Unit Six Part OneText An Ancient Food in Modern Forms—Milk(56) Part TwoFast Reading Salt(60) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading The Bird Flu: How Much Fear Is Healthy?(63) Unit Seven Part OneText Benjamin Franklin(66) Part TwoFast Reading Alfred Nobel—a Man of Contrasts(70) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading Better Known as Mark Twain(72) Unit Eight Part OneText The Dangers of Television(77) Part TwoFast Reading Purse Snatching(80) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading (1) A Bloom to Last Forever(82) (2) Dragon Boat Festival(84) Unit Nine Part OneText What Makes a Leader?(87) Part TwoFast Reading On Leadership(91) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading (1) Its Never Too Late for Success(93) (2) A Letter of Application for a Job(96) Unit Ten Part OneText Death: A Part of Life(98) Part TwoFast Reading Leave to Enter(101) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading (1) Babyhood(104) (2) A Letter of Application for Scholarship(106) Unit Eleven Part OneText How the WTO Differs from the GATT(108) Part TwoFast Reading The United Nations(113) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading AsiaPacific Economic Cooperation(118) Unit Twelve Part OneText A Wonderful Present(122) Part TwoFast Reading The Old Man and the Sea(127) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading My Daughter, My Friend(129) Unit Thirteen Part OneText Well Never Conquer Space(133) Part TwoFast Reading Black Holes(138) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading (1) Diamonds(141) (2) A Letter of Invitation(144) Unit Fourteen Part OneText Nabbing the Pirates of Cyberspace(145) Part TwoFast Reading Students Create Online University Store(149) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading (1) Cyber Love: What Is Real and What Is Virtual(152) (2) A Letter of Recommendation(157) Unit Fifteen Part OneText Clean Air, Dirty Fight(159) Part TwoFast Reading Pollution: A Threat to Our Environment(164) Part ThreeSupplementary Reading Penguin Decline Due to Global Warming?(168) Key to Exercises(172)