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Unit 1 1

Text A-1 Why I Love the City 1

Text A-2 People on the Move 3

Text B-1 Caution:Bumpy Road Ahead 6

Text B-2 Memory Lane Isn't What It Used to Be 9

Unit 2 13

Text A-1 Frederick Douglass 13

Text A-2 Best of Friends,Worlds Apart 16

Text B-1 Coming to an Awareness of Language 19

Text B-2 She Wanted to Teach 22

Unit 3 25

Text A-1 Brave New World of Biometrics 25

Text A-2 Fingerprints Instead of Credit Cards 28

Text B-1 Black Box Tells Its Secrets 31

Text B-2 The Deli 34

Unit 4 37

Text A-1 Everything Equals E=mc2 37

Text A-2 Black Holes 40

Text B-1 The Cosmos 43

Text B-2 Stars 46

Unit 5 49

Text A-1 The Cost-Benefit Principle 49

Text A-2 The Economics of Product Design 51

Text B-1 Lawyers and Professors and Cars and Clothing 54

Text B-2 Why Do"Almost New"Used Cars Sell for So Much Less Than Brand-new Ones? 57

Unit 6 61

Text A-1 The First Read 61

Text A-2 The Gift 64

Text B-1 Peanuts Creator Schulz Dies on Eve of Last Strip 67

Text B-2 Linda's New Friend 70

Unit 7 73

Text A-1 Starting Your Own Business 73

Text A-2 A Team Leader 75

Text B-1 Working for Fun and Profit 78

Text B-2 The Carpet Fitter 80

Unit 8 85

Text A-1 A Tree Project Helps the Genes of Champions Live On 85

Text A-2 Cloning 88

Text B-1 Engineers Ask Nature for Design Advice 91

Text B-2 Flowers in the Desert? 94

Appendix 99

Key to Comprehension Exercises 99