ContentsUnit 1 Biography 1
Passage 1 A Fairy Tale for Grownups Charles and Camilla' s once upon a time 1
Passage 2 Stand-Up For Her Man 5
Passage 3 Albert Einstein 10
Unit 2 Family 16
Passage 1 What Your Child Fears Most 16
Passage 2 Why Happy Families are Different 20
Passage 3 Victorian Family Life 25
Unit 3 Marriage 31
Passage 1 Indo-Canadian "Mixed" Marriage: Context and Dilemmas 31
Passage 2 Love and Marriage — Japanese and American 36
Passage 3 Prenuptial Agreements 40
Unit 4 Human Civilization 46
Passage 1 The City of the Future or The Future of the City 46
Passage 2 The Beauty of Britain 49
Passage 3 Language and Culture 53
Unit 5 Psychology and Mental Health 58
Passage 1 Don't Let Depression Ruin a Good Thing 58
Passage 2 Sleep:A Dynamic Activity 61
Passage 3 Understanding Adult Obesity 66
Unit 6 Life Experiences 71
Passage 1 Clyde Snow: The Detective' s Detective 71
Passage 2 What I Learned in the Shoe Store 75
Passage 3 The Secret Life of Arthur Wold 79
Unit 7 International Organizations 87
Passage 1 World Health Organization 87
Passage 2 The International Federation of Red Cross 92
Passage 3 Phi Beta Kappa 98
Unit 8 Health 104
Passage 1 Cut Your Medical Bills IN'94 104
Passage 2 Little-known Signs of a Stroke 108
Passage 3 Five Myths About Health Care Spending 114
Unit 9 Life 121
Passage 1 Ozzie 121
Passage 2 My Miraculous Family 124
Passage 3 The Secret Language of Success 129
Unit 10 Science 134
Passage 1 Net Weaver 134
Passage 2 The Second Internet Revolution 137
Passage 3 The Coming E-Commerce Boom 142
Unit 11 Social Studies 148
Passage 1 Getting a Better Job in Changing Tim 148
Passage 2 Chicago' s Drug-Busting "GOD SQUAD" 152
Passage 3 Why Don' t We Have the Prisons We Need? 157
Passage 1 Schools That Make Dreams Come True 164
Unit 12 Social Problems 164
Passage 2 The Grass Isn' t Greener, Just the Money 169
Unit 13 Behavior and Mental Health 176
Passage 1 Polio's Back. Why Now? 176
Passage 2 The Cruelest Cut 180
Passage 3 Bill O' Reilly: He Still Doesn' t Get It 184
Unit 14 Science and Development 190
Passage 1 Is "Globalization" Helpful or Hurting? 190
Passage 2 The Whole-House Machine 193
Passage 3 Some Problems of Technological Advancement 197
Passage 3 Emerging Technology — Reinventing the e-Book 197
Unit 15 Economy and Culture 203
Passage 1 Here' s Health-care Reform That Works 203
Passage 2 In the Blink of an Ear 208
Passage 3 Fraud in Science 214
Key to Exercises 219