Unit 1 Work and Employment 1
Passage One How My Assistant Saved the Day 1
Passage Two Does Higher Pay Make People More Loyal? 5
Passage Three Tearing Down All the Silos in a Company 9
Passage Four The Dirty Little Secret of Successful Companies 15
Unit 2 Diet and Health 19
Passage One Long and Short of Calcium and Vitamin D 19
Passage Two Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen 24
Passage Three When They Cannot Eat 29
Passage Four Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban 33
Unit 3 Environment Protection 39
Passage One Rhinos in Peril 39
Passage Two If Money Grew on Trees 44
Passage Three Our Disappearing World 49
Passage Four Disappearing Lakes 55
Unit 4 Family and Marriage 60
Passage One Buying Mr Right 60
Passage Two For Love or Money 66
Passage Three The Fight Against Gay Marriage 71
Passage Four Lightning Marriage—a Flash in the Pan? 76
Unit 5 Chinese CUlture 81
Passage One National Palace Museum 81
Passage Two Mosuo's Walking Marriage 86
Passage Three Chinese Clothing Keeping Pace with the World Fashion 91
Passage Four Qingming Festival 97
Unit 6 GeograPhy and Population 101
Passage One Will Most People Live in Cities? 101
Passage Two How Poor Are America's Poor 106
Passage Three Americans Working to Stop Illegal Immigration 111
Passage Four World Jewish Population 118
Unit 7 War and Peace 124
Passage One Historical Opportunity of Sino-US Ties Should Be Cherished 124
Passage Two Strengthen Good-Neighborly Relations and Deepen Mutrally Beneficial Cooperation 129
Passage Three Measures to Prevent and Combat Terrorism? 134
Passage Four How Rumsfeld Abandoned the Peacemakers 140
Unit 8 Economy and Development 146
Passage One China Finance Online—the Only US-Listed Chinese Online Financial Information/Service Company 146
Passage Two E-banking Charging Standards 151
Passage Three How Starbucks Got Its Mojo Back 158
Passage Four The Genius Dilemma 163
Keys 168