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Unit One 1

Text1 The Romance of Words 1

Text2 How to Find Time to Read 9

Text3 How the Pros Study-read 16

Text4 Big Blunders from Big Business 25

Text5 Education around the World 33

Text6 Education in Australia 37

Text7 Modes of Instruction 45

Text8 Schools in the U.S. 52

Text9 Are Books and Endangered Species? 64

Unit Two 69

Text1 Cities 69

Text2 Cities of the Future 74

Text3 New York City 81

Text4 Washington D.C. 86

Text5 The United States of America 93

Text6 Switzerland 98

Text7 Using Land Wisely 108

Text8 Background to New York 116

Unit Three 141

Text1 Blood Transfusion 141

Text2 Organ Transplantation 146

Text3 History of Computers 153

Text4 Electronic Computers 159

Text5 How Are Computers Changing Our World? 166

Text6 Fifth-Generation Computers 172

Text7 Tech Best Bets 180

Text8 Was the Cosmos Seeded with Life? 189

Text9 Listening for Aliens 195

Text10 Telltale Trees 204

Unit Four 213

Text1 Pandora s Box 213

Text2 The Creation of the World 219

Text3 The Garden of Eden and Man s First sin 223

Text4 The Good News-Bible 231

Text5 Touring by Model T 250

Text6 Broadway and Beyond 256

Text7 Hollywood 263

Text8 Feels like Spring 270

Text9 The Canterbury Tales 276

Text10 Jane Eyre 292

Text11 Wuthering Heights 308

Text12 A Surprise Catch 319

Unit Five 329

Text1 American Sports 329

Text2 The Olympic Games 343

Text3 The Glory of the Olympic Games 349

Text4 Place Wars and the Olympic Games 358

Text5 Soccer s Wild World Cup Scramble 369

Text6 What You Don t Know about Exercise 382

Text7 American Baseball 387

Text8 Boxing--Legalized Murder? 394

Text9 Albert Einstein 405

Text10 Thomas Alva Edison 412

Text11 The Wright Brothers 422

Text12 Benjamin Franklin 430

Text13 Three Days to See 442