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Unit 1 Society 1

Text A It's All Innocent Gossip，Until You're Guilty Of Insider Trading 1

Text B Ten Mistakes Job-Seekers Make 11

Text C One Small Step Back to Where We Started 20

Unit 2 Economy 28

Text A The People's Banker 28

Text B The People's Banker 38

Text C The End of the Euro 46

Unit 3 Science and Technology 55

Text A Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health？ 55

Text B The Groupon Clipper 66

Text C Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors？ 75

Unit 4 Culture and Entertainment 86

Text A Pathology as Entertainment 86

Text B Why C．S．Lewis Wrote His Science Fiction Trilogy 97

Text C Re-writing History，Hollywood-style 106

Unit 5 Environment 114

Text A UK Environment Healthy？Beware the Government Spin 114

Text B Transform Our Countryside and Put Forests in People's Hands 124

Text C Stop Blaming the Poor：It's the Wally Yachters Who Are Burning the Planet 133

Unit 6 Health 140

Text A Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong 140

Text B Have a Food allergy？It's Time to Recheck 151

Text C Our Broken Mental-Health System 160

Unit 7 Sports 169

Text A How‘Carbohydrate Rinsing’Can Boost Sports Performance 169

Text B Cycling Training：How to Use GPS to Improve Performance 179

Text C Positive Health Implications of Being Both Fat and Fit！ 189

Unit 8 Energy and Transportation 198

Text A Noton My Beach，Please 198

Text B Power to the People 206

Text C Station Design：Waiting for the Train 215

Unit 9 Accidents and Disasters 225

Text A Bombing Rock Moscow Subway 225

Text B Is Doomsday Coming？Perhaps，but Not in 2012 233

Text C Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters 240

Unit 10 Education 249

Text A The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University 249

Text B Waiting for‘Superman’：Education Reform Isn't Easy 259

Text C For Exposure，Universities Put Courses on the Web 268