Unit 1 Society 1
Text A It's All Innocent Gossip，Until You're Guilty Of Insider Trading 1
Text B Ten Mistakes Job-Seekers Make 11
Text C One Small Step Back to Where We Started 20
Unit 2 Economy 28
Text A The People's Banker 28
Text B The People's Banker 38
Text C The End of the Euro 46
Unit 3 Science and Technology 55
Text A Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health？ 55
Text B The Groupon Clipper 66
Text C Can the Chevy Volt Recharge General Motors？ 75
Unit 4 Culture and Entertainment 86
Text A Pathology as Entertainment 86
Text B Why C．S．Lewis Wrote His Science Fiction Trilogy 97
Text C Re-writing History，Hollywood-style 106
Unit 5 Environment 114
Text A UK Environment Healthy？Beware the Government Spin 114
Text B Transform Our Countryside and Put Forests in People's Hands 124
Text C Stop Blaming the Poor：It's the Wally Yachters Who Are Burning the Planet 133
Unit 6 Health 140
Text A Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong 140
Text B Have a Food allergy？It's Time to Recheck 151
Text C Our Broken Mental-Health System 160
Unit 7 Sports 169
Text A How‘Carbohydrate Rinsing’Can Boost Sports Performance 169
Text B Cycling Training：How to Use GPS to Improve Performance 179
Text C Positive Health Implications of Being Both Fat and Fit！ 189
Unit 8 Energy and Transportation 198
Text A Noton My Beach，Please 198
Text B Power to the People 206
Text C Station Design：Waiting for the Train 215
Unit 9 Accidents and Disasters 225
Text A Bombing Rock Moscow Subway 225
Text B Is Doomsday Coming？Perhaps，but Not in 2012 233
Text C Why Haiti Keeps Getting Hammered by Disasters 240
Unit 10 Education 249
Text A The Rise of the Entrepreneurial University 249
Text B Waiting for‘Superman’：Education Reform Isn't Easy 259
Text C For Exposure，Universities Put Courses on the Web 268