Unit 1 1
Passage 1 Japanese and American Workers:Two Casts ofMind 1
Passage 2 The English Character 7
Passage 3 I'm Sorry.I Won't Apologize 11
Passage 4 Chinese,English Speakers Vary at Math 15
Unit 2 17
Passage 1 The Western:The Legend and the Cardboard Hero 17
Passage 2 Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen 23
Passage 3 Gold Is the Devil 27
Passage 4 Learning to Save Can Be Challenging 31
Unit 3 33
Passage 1 AMessage to Garcia 33
Passage 2 Thin Is"In,"Fat Is"Out" 39
Passage 3 Confessions of a Sports Mom 43
Passage 4 One Number Doesn't Fit All 47
Unit 4 49
Passage 1 Happy People 49
Passage 2 Biological Parents and Adoptive Parents 55
Passage 3 Salty Coffee 59
Passage 4 Dad Beats up Mum.What Can a Child Do? 63
Unit 5 65
Passage 1 The Myth of the Latin Woman:I Just Met a Girl Named Maria 65
Passage 2 The First American 71
Passage 3 The Rise of Asian Women 75
Passage 4 My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish 79
Unit 6 81
Passage 1 Take This Fish and Look at It 81
Passage 2 STM 87
Passage 3 Don't Fear Failure 91
Passage 4 If at First You Don't Succeed Enough 95
Unit 7 97
Passage 1 The Greenland Viking Mystery 97
Passage 2 The Biological Clock 103
Passage 3 Have You Ever Seen a Flying Saucer? 107
Passage 4 Showing Emotion Is a No-Can-Do among Men 111
Unit 8 113
Passage 1 Whatever's Happened to the Weather? 113
Passage 2 A Practical Mind 119
Passage 3 Energy Sense Makes Future Sense 123
Passage 4 Japan Tries to Cut Down on Plastic Bags 127
Key to Comprehension Exercises 129