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Unit 1 Work and Employment 1

Passage One How My Assistant Saved the Day 1

Passage Two Does Higher Pay Make People More Loyal? 5

Passage Three Tearing Down All the Silos in a Company 9

Passage Four The Dirty Little Secret of Successful Companies 15

Unit 2 Diet and Health 19

Passage One Long and Short of Calcium and Vitamin D 19

Passage Two Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen 24

Passage Three When They Cannot Eat 29

Passage Four Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban 33

Unit 3 Environment Protection 39

Passage One Rhinos in Peril 39

Passage Two If Money Grew on Trees 44

Passage Three Our Disappearing World 49

Passage Four Disappearing Lakes 55

Unit 4 Family and Marriage 60

Passage One Buying Mr Right 60

Passage Two For Love or Money 66

Passage Three The Fight Against Gay Marriage 71

Passage Four Lightning Marriage—a Flash in the Pan? 76

Unit 5 Chinese CUlture 81

Passage One National Palace Museum 81

Passage Two Mosuo's Walking Marriage 86

Passage Three Chinese Clothing Keeping Pace with the World Fashion 91

Passage Four Qingming Festival 97

Unit 6 GeograPhy and Population 101

Passage One Will Most People Live in Cities? 101

Passage Two How Poor Are America's Poor 106

Passage Three Americans Working to Stop Illegal Immigration 111

Passage Four World Jewish Population 118

Unit 7 War and Peace 124

Passage One Historical Opportunity of Sino-US Ties Should Be Cherished 124

Passage Two Strengthen Good-Neighborly Relations and Deepen Mutrally Beneficial Cooperation 129

Passage Three Measures to Prevent and Combat Terrorism? 134

Passage Four How Rumsfeld Abandoned the Peacemakers 140

Unit 8 Economy and Development 146

Passage One China Finance Online—the Only US-Listed Chinese Online Financial Information/Service Company 146

Passage Two E-banking Charging Standards 151

Passage Three How Starbucks Got Its Mojo Back 158

Passage Four The Genius Dilemma 163

Keys 168