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Unit 1 1

Text A-1 What Is Intelligence,Anyway? 1

Text A-2 William H.Gates—Chairman and Chief Software Architect,Microsoft Corporation 5

Text B-1 Willis Haviland Carrier—the Father of Cool 9

Text B-2 Thomas Adams and the Invention of Chewing Gum 13

Unit 2 17

Text A-1 Metropolitan Life Insurance 17

Text A-2 What American Consumers Like? 21

Text B-1 How Postoptics Gets 585703450f Its Online Sales through Google Advertising 25

Text B-2 Two Kinds of American Business Heroes 29

Unit 3 33

Text A-1 I Don't Know 33

Text A-2 The Old Bag Lady 37

Text B-1 Some Shed Light 41

Text B-2 Help a Li'l Bit 45

Unit 4 49

Text A-1 How to Find Meaning in Your Work and Your Life 49

Text A-2 Staying Happy 53

Text B-1 "Journalist...Rewarding,but Very Political" 57

Text B-2 A University Diploma 61

Unit 5 67

Text A-1 Online Database Pinpoints Plagiarism 67

Text A-2 The Brain Revolution and Ethics 71

Text B-1 Survey:Many Students Say Cheating's OK 77

Text B-2 The Commercialization of Higher Education 81

Unit 6 87

Text A-1 Doctors to Decide on Right to Die 87

Text A-2 Terminally Ill Woman Fights for Right to Die 91

Text B-1 The Sad Suicide of Admiral Nimitz 97

Text B-2 A Nurse Speaks Out! 101

Unit 7 107

Text A-1 The Bounty of the Sea 107

Text A-2 Man and Nature 111

Text B-1 Trash Troubles 115

Text B-2 Naturalist Has Whale of a Time in Alaska 119

Unit 8 123

Text A-1 At Century's End,a Nostalgic Glance Back 123

Text A-2 Flight:An Invention that Shrank the World 127

Text B-1 The Digital Age 133

Text B-2 The Creation of the Automotive World 137

Appendix 143

Key to Comprehension Exercises 143