Lesson 1 1
Reading A Can I Grow a New Brain? 1
Reading B Will We Still Eat Meat? 5
Reading C Can We Make Garbage Disappear? 7
Reading Comprehension Exercises 11
Lesson 2 17
Reading A Once Lost in Vietnam,Now Lost in America 17
Reading B Latino America 19
Reading Comprehension Exercises 23
Lesson 3 27
Reading A Are We Teaching Too Little,Too Late? 27
Reading B Politicians Turn In to TV Violence 30
Reading Comprehension Exercises 33
Lesson 4 38
Reading A Cover Story:See How They Run 38
Reading B The Search for Life 42
Reading Comprehension Exercises 46
Lesson 5 53
Reading A The Logic That Washes Whiter 53
Reading B The Web We Weave 56
Reading Comprehension Exercises 60
Lesson 6 71
Reading A Children of the Corn 71
Reading B America s Exam Anxiety 73
Reading Comprehension Exercises 76
Lesson 7 81
Reading A Economist:John Maynard Keynes 81
Reading B Stock Boom Poses Its Share of Questions 84
Reading Comprehension Exercises 86
Lesson 8 90
Reading A Stress 90
Reading B Rewiring Your Gray Matter 97
Reading C A Cure That May Cost Us Ourselves 101
Reading Comprehension Exercises 105
Lesson 9 109
Reading A A Worthless World of Money 109
Reading B The Mean Season 111
Reading Comprehension Exercises 115
Lesson 10 118
Reading A Seeking New Jobs After the Pink Slip 118
Reading B Job Worries Flow from Freer Trade 120
Reading Comprehension Exercises 123
Lesson 11 127
Reading A Made in America 127
Reading B The Birth of a Network 131
Reading Comprehension Exercises 134
Lesson 12 139
Reading A The Attic of e 139
Reading B Behind the Hack Attack 145
Reading Comprehension Exercises 149
Lesson 13 154
Reading A Rotten to the Corps 154
Reading B High Rollers,Big Losers 157
Reading Comprehension Exercises 161
Lesson 14 167
Reading A Front and Center 167
Reading B The Torchbearer:Rosa Parks 171
Reading Comprehension Exercises 173
Lesson 15 177
Reading A No Marriage,No Apologies 177
Reading B Elder Care:Making the Right Choice 181
Reading Comprehension Exercises 186
Lesson 16 190
Reading A The Clergymen Came Out Two by Two 190
Reading B Teenage Timebomb 199
Reading Comprehension Exercises 207
Suggested of Translation Version 217
Lesson 1 217
Lesson 2 227
Lesson 3 234
Lesson 4 243
Lesson 5 253
Lesson 6 262
Lesson 7 271
Lesson 8 277
Lesson 9 290
Lesson 10 299
Lesson 11 305
Lesson 12 317
Lesson 13 328
Lesson 14 339
Lesson 15 349
Lesson 16 357
Keys 367