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Unit One Family 1

Passage 1 10 Tips to Get Your Kids Moving 1

Passage 2 A Family Divided by Obama and McCain 5

Passage 3 Bunking In with Mom and Dad 8

Passage 4 When Caring for Aging Parents Brings Back Sibling Tensions 12

Unit Two Holiday 16

Passage 1 Thanksgiving Day Celebration in Different Places 16

Passage 2 Five Things to Do if You Aren't Celebrating Christmas 20

Passage 3 Origins of Christmas and Santa Claus 24

Passage 4 Chinese New Year 27

Unit Three Schooling 31

Passage 1 Students Covering Bigger Share of Costs of College 31

Passage 2 No Dropouts Left Behind:New Rules on Grad Rates 35

Passage 3 Should Kids Be Able to Graduate 38

after 10th Grade? 38

Passage 4 Courting Eighth-Graders 42

Unit Four Technology 46

Passage 1 Toy Compan ies Push High-Tech Robotic Toys 46

Passage 2 Technology:Fighting Noise with Antinoise 50

Passage 3 The Machines Are Listening 53

Passage 4 Touch Screens Take Over 56

Unit Five Successful People 61

Passage 1 Why Some People Almost Always Are Successful 61

Passage 2 Bill Gates Tells the Secret of His Success 65

Passage 3 Hometown Triumph for Tom Jones 68

Passage 4 Arthur Evans 71

Unit Six Business 75

Passage 1 The Crash of 2008 75

Passage 2 The Outlook for Investing in Green Energy 79

Passage 3 Motown Is Bleak as Big Three Could Become Two 82

Passage 4 How to Fix a Flat 86

Unit Seven Environment 90

Passage 1 Coastal Dead Zones Are Growing 90

Passage 2 Fossil Fuels'Hidden Cost Is in Billions 94

Passage 3 Exposing the Myth of Clean Coal Power 97

Passage 4 Beijing Smog Cleanup:Has It Worked? 101

Unit Eight War and Defence 105

Passage 1 NATO's Road Map to Nowhere 105

Passage 2 Behind America's Shield 109

Passage 3 Pelosi's Defense of War on Gaza Raises Concerns 112

Passage 4 In Defence of the Envi ronment,Putting Poverty to the Sword 116

参考答案 120