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CONTENTSUnit 1 Text A The Magic of Language 1

Text B A Brief History of English 11

Unit 2 Text A The Age of Globality 18

Text B Made in India vs.Made in China 28

Unit 3 Text A Communication across Culture 35

Text B The Unhappy American Way 　 45

Unit 4 Text A Right and Left-Handedness in Humans 52

Text B Why Deinstitutionalization Turned Deadly?　 60

Unit 5 Text A Gay Marriages 65

Text B Death Penalty 76

Unit 6 Text A The One and Only 　 83

Text B The History of Olympic Games 93

Unit 7 Text A Classical Music,Perish or Survive? 100

Text B Music 111

Unit 8 Text A Higher Education 118

Text B Secondary Education 128

Unit 9 Text A High-Tech Harvests 135

Text B The History of Science 145

Unit 10 Text A Indoor Pollution 153

Text B Ecotourism 163

Unit 11 Text A Global Warming and Rising Sea Levels 168

Text B Bodily Measures 178

Unit 12 Text A Herbal Healing 182

Text B The Traditional Chinese Medicine 193

Unit 13 Text A The Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud 199

Text B A Giant of a Great Nation 210

Unit 14 Text A Road Rage,All the Rage 217

Text B The Development of Transportation 224

Unit 15 Text A The Greenspan Putt 230

Text B Home Business 239

Unit 16 Text A A Hero Who Creates Heroes 244

Text B American Literature since World WarⅡ　 256

Unit 17 Text A Terrorism:Civilized and Barbaric 261

Text B The Lexicographers 273

Unit 18 Text A Watergate Scandal 278

Text B The Allied Invasions of Western Europe 287

Unit 19 Text A The Grand Canyon 293

Text B Everest:Now Just Another Tourist Trap?　 301

Unit 20 Text A Two Concepts of Sovereignty 305

Text B Functions of the United Nations 315