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Unit 1 1

Text How to Measure What You Learned in College 2

Supplementary Reading 12

Passage 1 Six Ways to Be Happy with Your College Choice 12

Passage 2 Funding in American Higher Education 16

Unit 2 22

Text A Worldwide Gender Gap 22

Supplementary Reading 30

Passage 1 Women's Position in the 17th Century 30

Passage 2 Gaining Ground on the Wage Front 33

Unit 3 41

Text What Animals Really Think:Food,Warmth,Sleep?Their Thoughts May Be Much Deeper Than That 42

Supplementary Reading 51

Passage 1 How Did Dogs Become Adept at Playing to Humans? 51

Passage 2 Death of a Tiger 54

Unit 4 60

Text Tide of Grief 61

Supplementary Reading 71

Passage 1 Tide of Grief(continued) 71

Passage 2 In the Wake of the Tsunami 73

Unit 5 82

Text Fighting"Big Fat" 83

Supplementary Reading 93

Passage 1 It's Not the Carbs,Stupid 93

Passage 2 A Gene That Says,"No More" 97

Unit 6 102

Text Artful Aging 103

Supplementary Reading 114

Passage 1 Four Rules for Living a Long Healthy Life 114

Passage 2 The Power of Positive Thinking 118

Unit 7 123

Text Merchants of Death 123

Supplementary Reading 134

Passage 1 Humans Were Born to Run,Fossil Study Suggests 134

Passage 2 A Job or a Cigarette? 139

Unit 8 146

Text Testing the Science of Intelligence 147

Supplementary Reading 157

Passage 1 In Defiance of Darwin 157

Passage 2 Color-Coordinated"Truths" 161

Unit 9 167

Text Scientists Try to Find out What's So Funny about Humor 168

Supplementary Reading 175

Passage 1 Searching for the Divine 175

Passage 2 Spiders Watch Their Diets Too,Study Says 181

Unit 10 187

Text What's in a Name? 187

Supplementary Reading 197

Passage 1 Developing a Company Image and Brand 197

Passage 2 Brand Management:Define Your Identity,Then Stick to It 199

Unit 11 206

Text Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact with the Earth in 2880? 207

Supplementary Reading 215

Passage 1 Prehistoric Asteroid"Killed Everything" 215

Passage 2 "Dinosaur-Killer"Asteroid Crater Imaged for First Time 218

Unit 12 224

Text Green Burials:Thinking Outside the Box 225

Supplementary Reading 234

Passage 1 Home Funerals:An Old Tradition Returns 234

Passage 2 Waste Leads to Worry in Indonesia 239

Unit 13 248

Text When Does Autism Start? 248

Supplementary Reading 258

Passage 1 When Does Autism Start?(continued) 258

passage 2 Lost and Found:One Woman's Remarkable Transformation 262

Unit 14 268

Text Border Net Has Become a Noose 269

Supplementary Reading 278

Passage 1 Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming 278

Passage 2 Turning a Corner 284

Unit 15 291

Text Is It Apocalypse Now? 291

Supplementary Reading 302

Passage 1 Is It Apocalypse Now?(continued) 302

Passage 2 The End Is Not at Hand 307