Unit 1
Waking Up from the American Dream 1
Reading Skills:Guessing Vocabulary Items from Context 14
Unit 2
Move Over,Big Brother 19
Reading Skills:Drawing Inference 32
Unit 3
When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns 39
Reading Skills:Reading Newspaper Articles 53
Reading Skills:Reading Magazine Articles 59
Unit 4
Emerging Markets and the Financial Storm 65
Reading Skills:Technical Prose 77
Unit 5
The Rise of the Green Building 87
Writing Skills:Letter 101
Writing Skills:Curriculum Vitae(CV) 107
Unit 6
At What Cost Beauty 111
Writing Skills:Abstract 124
Unit 7
How to Prepare for a Pandemic 127
Writing Skills:The Research Paper(1) 140
Unit 8
Too Much Too Soon 147
Writing Skills:The Research Paper(2) 158
Unit 9
The Net Shapes Up to Get Physical 167
Writing Skills:The Research Paper(3) 180
Unit 10
How to Live and Love in the 21st Century 189
Translation Skills:Subordinate Clauses(1)—Nominal Clauses 201
Unit 11
The Global Food Crisis 205
Translation Skills:Subordinate Clauses(2)—Attributive Clauses 217
Unit 12
The End of California?Dream On! 223
Translation Skills:Subordinate Clauses(3)—Adverbial Clauses 238
Unit 13
The New Science of Happiness 243
Translation Skills:Long Sentences 255
Unit 14
Original Thinker 263
Translation Skills:Technical Translation 278
Self-assessment Test 291
Appendix 303