UNIT ONE PEOPLE 1
Text A The Lady with the Lamp 1
Text B More People and More Products 5
Text C George 8
UNIT TWO FOOD 15
Text A Food 15
Text B The Pleasures of Eating 18
Text C Bakery Products 22
UNIT THREE HOUSE 29
Text A Building a House 29
Text B A Roof over Our Heads 33
Text C At Monk's Home 35
UNIT FOUR SHOPPING 41
Text A An English Christmas 41
Text B Glass 44
Text C How to Choose a Freezer 46
UNIT FIVE TRANSPORT 53
Text A The First Man to Fly 53
Text B Artificial Waterways 56
Text C Stinking Buses 59
UNIT SIX ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 67
Text A Clean Air, Dirty Fight 67
Text B Homeless of the Range 77
Text C The Changing Face of the Arctic 81
UNIT SEVEN FARM, COUNTRYSIDE, AND SEASIDE 89
Text A The Forest 89
Text B The Whale 93
Text C Chameleons 98
UNIT EIGHT WEATHER AND CLIMATE 103
Text A Air and Wind 103
Text B What Makes the Weather 108
Text C Meteorology 112
UNIT NINE COMMUNICATION 120
Text A The Electric Telegraph 120
Text B The Telephone and Its Inventor 126
Text C A Letter of Complaints 131
UNIT TEN THE MEDIA 137
Text A Reuter 137
Text B Informing the World 142
Text C Television 143
UNIT ELEVEN CRIME 148
Text A Bank Robberies 148
Text B An Accident or a Crime? 151
Text C Purse Snatching 153
UNIT TWELVE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 159
Text A The Age of Cloning 159
Text B Digital Divide 161
Text C High-Tech Pie in the Sky 162
UNIT THIRTEEN FILMS, PLAYS AND OPERA 169
Text A Little John 169
Text B Magic 171
Text C Pride and Prejudice 173
UNIT FOUNRTEEN ECONOMY 179
Text A Economy 179
Text B Foreign Investment in China 183
Text C The Production Method 185
UNIT FIFTEEN HEALTH 189
Text A The First Vaccination 189
Text B How Nice to be Clean 191
Text C Play 195
UNIT SIXTEEN EDUCATION 202
Text A The Scholars and the Lion 202
Text B Education out of School 204
Text C Fairy Tales 205
Key 212