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Unit 1 People 1

Text 1 Deep Blues and Sunny Yellows 1

Text 2 Bill Gates in His Boyhood 3

Text 3 The Man Who Made Mickey Mouse 6

Text 4 Mark Twain and the Muddy Mississippi 9

Text 5 Benjamin Franklin 11

Unit 2 The Information Society 15

Text 1 How Texting and IM'ing Helps Introverted Teens 15

Text 2 Why I've Stopped Sending Holiday Photo Cards 19

Text 3 Teens and Video Games:How Much Is Too Much? 22

Text 4 Email a Message at Your Peril 26

Text 5 Long Live Paper 29

Unit 3 Cuisine 32

Text 1 The Sweet Taste of Summer 32

Text 2 Spanish Cuisine 35

Text 3 The Last Jar of Jelly 37

Text 4 The Story of Sushi 40

Text 5 Curries of the World 42

Unit 4 Marriage 46

Text 1 The Science of a Happy Marriage 46

Text 2 The Do's and Don'ts of Intercultural Marriage 49

Text 3 To Win at Marriage,Learn to Lose 52

Text 4 American Wedding Customs and Superstitions 56

Text 5 Loving Muriel 59

Unit 5 Culture 63

Text 1 Culture Shock 63

Text 2 Tea Culture 66

Text 3 Ramadan(The Muslim Holy Month) 68

Text 4 Thailand Social Customs:Public Behavior Do's and Don'ts 70

Text 5 The Difference between American and British Humour 73

Unit 6 Adventure 77

Text 1 A Pirate Bold to Be 77

Text 2 The Treasure-hunt 80

Text 3 The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters 83

Text 4 Parker and Pi 88

Text 5 The Bet on the Tour of the World 91

Unit 7 Life 95

Text 1 Life in a Violin Case 95

Text 2 Generosity Is a Two-way Street 97

Text 3 The Top Five Regrets ofthe Dying 99

Text 4 Why Measure Life in Heartbeats? 102

Text 5 A Ballto RollAround 104

Unit 8 Science and Technology 107

Text 1 Why Do We Yawn? 107

Text 2 Why Have We Got a Memory? 109

Text 3 Science and the Scientific Attitude 112

Text 4 What Would Happen If the Earth Stopped Spinning? 116

Text 5 Weird Science 118

Answers 121