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Unit 1 1

Text A-1 The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind 1

Text A-2 Willis Haviland Carrier—the Father of Cool 4

Text B-1 T homas Adams and the Invention of Chewing Gum 8

Text B-2 Einstein：Thinker and Inventor of the Modern World 11

Unit 2 17

Text A-1 Metropolitan Life Insurance 17

Text A-2 What Do American Consumers Like? 20

Text B-1 How Postoptics Gets 58％ of Its Online Sales through Google Advertising 23

Text B-2 Two Kinds of American Business Heroes 26

Unit 3 31

Text A-1 Technology in Workplace Widens Generation Gap 31

Text A-2 Matchmaking in the 21st Century：Technology and Yesterday's Values Can Connect 34

Text B-1 Online Shopping 37

Text B-2 Some Benefits ofSpace Technology 40

Unit 4 45

Text A-1 How to Find Meaning in Your Work and Your Life 45

Text A-2 Staying Happy 48

Text B-1 "Journalist...Rewarding,but Very Political" 52

Text B-2 A University Diploma 55

Unit 5 59

Text A-1 Online Database Pinpoints Plagiarism 59

Text A-2 the Brain Revolution and Ethics 62

Text B-1 Survey：Many Students Say Cheating's OK 66

Text B-2 The Commercialization of Higher Education 69

Unit 6 73

Text A-1 Modern Life：It's One Step at a Time,Only Much Quicker 73

Text A-2 Welcome to"the New Busy" 75

Text B-1 Ready to Snap：Crazy,Busy and the Lure of Modern Life 79

Text B-2 Laughter in a Busy World 82

Unit 7 85

Text A-1 The Bounty of the Sea 85

Text A-2 Man and Nature 88

Text B-1 Trash Troubles 91

Text B-2 Naturalist Has Whale of a Time in Alaska 94

Unit 8 99

Text A-1 At Century's End,a Nostalgic Glance Back 99

Text A-2 Flight：An Invention That Shrank the World 102

Text B-1 The Digital Age 107

Text B-2 The Creation of the Automotive World 110

Appendix 115

Key to Comprehension Exercises 115