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UNIT ONE PEOPLE 1

Text A The Lady with the Lamp 1

Text B More People and More Products 5

Text C George 8

UNIT TWO FOOD 15

Text A Food 15

Text B The Pleasures of Eating 18

Text C Bakery Products 22

UNIT THREE HOUSE 29

Text A Building a House 29

Text B A Roof over Our Heads 33

Text C At Monk's Home 35

UNIT FOUR SHOPPING 41

Text A An English Christmas 41

Text B Glass 44

Text C How to Choose a Freezer 46

UNIT FIVE TRANSPORT 53

Text A The First Man to Fly 53

Text B Artificial Waterways 56

Text C Stinking Buses 59

UNIT SIX ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 67

Text A Clean Air, Dirty Fight 67

Text B Homeless of the Range 77

Text C The Changing Face of the Arctic 81

UNIT SEVEN FARM, COUNTRYSIDE, AND SEASIDE 89

Text A The Forest 89

Text B The Whale 93

Text C Chameleons 98

UNIT EIGHT WEATHER AND CLIMATE 103

Text A Air and Wind 103

Text B What Makes the Weather 108

Text C Meteorology 112

UNIT NINE COMMUNICATION 120

Text A The Electric Telegraph 120

Text B The Telephone and Its Inventor 126

Text C A Letter of Complaints 131

UNIT TEN THE MEDIA 137

Text A Reuter 137

Text B Informing the World 142

Text C Television 143

UNIT ELEVEN CRIME 148

Text A Bank Robberies 148

Text B An Accident or a Crime? 151

Text C Purse Snatching 153

UNIT TWELVE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 159

Text A The Age of Cloning 159

Text B Digital Divide 161

Text C High-Tech Pie in the Sky 162

UNIT THIRTEEN FILMS, PLAYS AND OPERA 169

Text A Little John 169

Text B Magic 171

Text C Pride and Prejudice 173

UNIT FOUNRTEEN ECONOMY 179

Text A Economy 179

Text B Foreign Investment in China 183

Text C The Production Method 185

UNIT FIFTEEN HEALTH 189

Text A The First Vaccination 189

Text B How Nice to be Clean 191

Text C Play 195

UNIT SIXTEEN EDUCATION 202

Text A The Scholars and the Lion 202

Text B Education out of School 204

Text C Fairy Tales 205

Key 212