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Unit 1 Nine to five 1

Passage 1 Five Insider Tips for Job-Seeking College Grads 1

Passage 2 Job Fairs 5

Passage 3 The Growing Job Crisis Needs Solutions Now 9

Passage 4 A Career Switcher Looks to Build a Better Resume 13

Unit 2 A good read 17

Passage 1 Reading:Luxury or Necessity? 17

Passage 2 Top Ten Gift Ideas for Book Lovers and Readers 21

Passage 3 Book Clubs for the Chattering Classes 25

Passage 4 Brains,Books and the Future of Print 29

Unit 3 Fashion statements 33

Passage 1 Fashion Everywhere! 33

Passage 2 All About Nail Art-It's Not Just About Painting Your Nails! 37

Passage 3 Fashion Modelling-It's Not Just About a Pretty Face! 40

Passage 4 The World of Tattoos 44

Unit 4 Money talks 47

Passage 1 My Family's No-Buy Experiment 47

Passage 2 Mind over Money 51

Passage 3 How to Save Money You Didn't Know You Had 55

Passage 4 The New Internet Start-up Boom:Get Rich Slow 59

Unit 5 Gender studies 63

Passage 1 The Male Minority 63

Passage 2 Changing Gender Roles Within the Workplace 67

Passage 3 What Women Want Now 71

Passage 4 Are Co-ed or Single-sex Lessons Best? 75

Unit 6 All in the past 79

Passage 1 Neanderthal 79

Passage 2 Mankind's Greatest Explorations and Adventures 84

Passage 3 The Ancient Olympics 88

Passage 4 Stonehenge 92

Unit 7 No place like home 97

Passage 1 Making New Memories of Home 97

Passage 2 How Smart Could I Make My Dumb Manhattan Apartment? 101

Passage 3 Living in a Share House 105

Passage 4 It Takes a Thief 109

Unit 8 Architecture:frozen music 113

Passage 1 Just Another Pretty Face? 113

Passage 2 Cambridge Public Library 118

Passage 3 Yale's Green Ark 122

Passage 4 Beijing National Stadium,"the Bird's Nest" 127

Unit 9 Words of wisdom 131

Passage 1 Schmooze and Win-"Small"Talk Your Way to Success 131

Passage 2 The Ten Most Popular Foreign Languages in the US 136

Passage 3 ESL Technologies:The Universal Language 140

Passage 4 Life Is a Sales Job 144

Unit 10 The human spirit 147

Passage 1 Can You Push Yourself Too Hard? 147

Passage 2 Fight for Survival 151

Passage 3 The Apollo Expeditions to the Moon 155

Passage 4 Climbing Mount Qomolangma 159

Answer Key 163