Unit One 1
Passage 1 The History of Tea 1
Passage 2 Tertiary Comparison Guide 10
Passage 3 Radiation and Human Health 19
Unit Two 27
Passage 1 Mind over Disease 27
Passage 2 Your Attitude Can Make You Well 35
Passage 3 Christopher Reeve's Decision 43
Unit Three 53
Passage 1 ...And the Twain Shall Meet 53
Passage 2 Verbal Patterns 62
Passage 3 Non-verbal Communication 71
Unit Four 81
Passage 1 My Mother's Gift 81
Passage 2 Father's Day 90
Passage 3 Untold Love 99
Unit Five 108
Passage 1 Marion Jones:The Fastest Woman 108
Passage 2 Nobel,The Dynamite King 115
Passage 3 Robbie Williams to Be a Better Man 123
Unit Six 132
Passage 1 Friend 132
Passage 2 Keeping the Heart's Door Open 141
Passage 3 The Importance of Just Being There 150
Unit Seven 159
Passage 1 Definition of the Philosophe 159
Passage 2 Odysseus 167
Passage 3 The Trojan War—A General Introduction 175
Unit Eight 186
Passage 1 Approaches to Psychological Therapy 186
Passage 2 Sigmund Freud 196
Passage 3 Placebos—How Effect ive Are They? 203
Keys to Exercises 212
Vocabulary 230
Phrases and Expressions 246