Unit 1
Passage A The Pleasures of Reading 1
Passage B A New Dictionary 4
Passage C Even Muggles Can Learn 6
Unit 2
Passage A Welcome to New York 9
Passage B Bill Gates 11
Passage C Eating in America 13
Unit 3
Passage A Teenagers 16
Passage B Something Has to Be Done to Solve the Problem 19
Passage C Students and Mobile Phones 21
Unit 4
Passage A Study into Laughter 24
Passage B Make Yourself Safe in Cars 27
Passage C The English Character 30
Unit 5
Passage A Yasser Arafat 33
Passage B Welcome to Dunk Island 35
Passage C Life of Norwegians 37
Unit 6
Passage A Country Songs of Rural Life 40
Passage B Backstreet Boys 43
Passage C Leonard Bernstein 46
Unit 7
Passage A Italian Farming 49
Passage B Ariau Amazon Towers 51
Passage C The Capital City of Thailand—Bangkok 53
Unit 8
Passage A People Who Help to Bring Happiness to Others 56
Passage B It Is Important to Get Enough Sleep 58
Passage C Neighborhood Watch Group 60
Unit 9
Passage A How People Learned to Make a Fire 63
Passage B The Inventor of Braille System 65
Passage C Great Inventions 68
Unit 10
Passage A Going in the Wrong Way 71
Passage B A Surprise 73
Passage C A Night on the Hill 75
Key to the Exercises 78