Unit 1 People 1
Text 1 Deep Blues and Sunny Yellows 1
Text 2 Bill Gates in His Boyhood 3
Text 3 The Man Who Made Mickey Mouse 6
Text 4 Mark Twain and the Muddy Mississippi 9
Text 5 Benjamin Franklin 11
Unit 2 The Information Society 15
Text 1 How Texting and IM'ing Helps Introverted Teens 15
Text 2 Why I've Stopped Sending Holiday Photo Cards 19
Text 3 Teens and Video Games:How Much Is Too Much? 22
Text 4 Email a Message at Your Peril 26
Text 5 Long Live Paper 29
Unit 3 Cuisine 32
Text 1 The Sweet Taste of Summer 32
Text 2 Spanish Cuisine 35
Text 3 The Last Jar of Jelly 37
Text 4 The Story of Sushi 40
Text 5 Curries of the World 42
Unit 4 Marriage 46
Text 1 The Science of a Happy Marriage 46
Text 2 The Do's and Don'ts of Intercultural Marriage 49
Text 3 To Win at Marriage,Learn to Lose 52
Text 4 American Wedding Customs and Superstitions 56
Text 5 Loving Muriel 59
Unit 5 Culture 63
Text 1 Culture Shock 63
Text 2 Tea Culture 66
Text 3 Ramadan(The Muslim Holy Month) 68
Text 4 Thailand Social Customs:Public Behavior Do's and Don'ts 70
Text 5 The Difference between American and British Humour 73
Unit 6 Adventure 77
Text 1 A Pirate Bold to Be 77
Text 2 The Treasure-hunt 80
Text 3 The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters 83
Text 4 Parker and Pi 88
Text 5 The Bet on the Tour of the World 91
Unit 7 Life 95
Text 1 Life in a Violin Case 95
Text 2 Generosity Is a Two-way Street 97
Text 3 The Top Five Regrets ofthe Dying 99
Text 4 Why Measure Life in Heartbeats? 102
Text 5 A Ballto RollAround 104
Unit 8 Science and Technology 107
Text 1 Why Do We Yawn? 107
Text 2 Why Have We Got a Memory? 109
Text 3 Science and the Scientific Attitude 112
Text 4 What Would Happen If the Earth Stopped Spinning? 116
Text 5 Weird Science 118
Answers 121