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Unit 1 Social Networking 1

Text A Do You Share Facebook？ 1

Text B Twitter Study Tracks When We Are Happy 13

Unit 2 Body Language 20

Text A Reading Body Language:5 Mistakes People Make 20

Text B Interpretation of Body Language at Workplace 31

Unit 3 Gender Issue 41

Text A They Call It the Reverse Gender Gap 41

Text B “Bridget Jones”Survey Sends Women Back to the Edge of Reason 49

Unit 4 Hats and Ties 57

Text A Britain's Royal Wedding Stirs Hat Fever 57

Text B History of Neckwear 67

Unit 5 Child Rearing 75

Text A Bringing up Children 75

Text B The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting 84

Unit 6 Aged People 94

Text A Elderly People in Modern Society 94

Text B Blind Stupidity in an Age of Ageism 102

Unit7 Western Painting 109

Text A Origins of Western Painting 109

Text B Neoclassicism 119

Unit8 Culture Differences 127

Text A Department or National Culture？ 128

Text B Global Culture and Individual Identity:Searching for Home in the Cultural Supermarket 137

Unit9 The Value of College 146

Text A Slim Down，Focus and Embrace Technology:American Universities Need to Be More Businesslike 146

Text B Steep Tuition Fees Are not Deterring Most Students.But the Attempt to Create a Market in Higher Education Is off Track 155

Unit10 Western Architecture 162

Text A Rome Architecture 162

Text B Influence of Roman Architecture on WesternArchitecture 172