Unit 1 Jobs 1
Passage One Getting Your First Part-Time Job 1
Passage Two How to Get Along with Your Boss 5
Passage Three Top Nine Tips:How to Keep Your Job in Today's Economy 9
Passage Four Ten Best Part-Time Jobs for Teens 13
Unit 2 Gender Discrimination 18
Passage One More Comprehensive Policy Action on Gender Discrimination in Workforce 18
Passage Two Sexual Discrimination in the City 22
Passage Three Gender Discrimination 25
Passage Four Sexual Discrimination Isn't"Trivial" 29
Unit 3 Self-Confidence 34
Passage One How to Build Self-Confidence 34
Passage Two The Spirit to Be Yourself 39
Passage Three Ten Ways to Instantly Build Self-Confidence 44
Passage Four Ways to Help Build Self-Confidence in Teenagers 48
Unit 4 Credibility 53
Passage One The Six Drivers of Brand Credibility 53
Passage Two No End to Ingenuity of Poison Milk Perpetrators 59
Passage Three FIFA:Credibility Crisis Continues as Former Scribe Affirms Body's Corrupt 63
Passage Four What If a Nation Suffers Credibility Drain 67
Unit 5 Food CrisiS 72
Passage One Preventing Another Food Crisis 72
Passage Two Why Global Warming Portends a Food Crisis? 76
Passage Three After the Oil Crisis,a Food Crisis? 80
Passage Four Why Is So Much Fighting for Food? 84
Unit 6 Disasters and Rescues 89
Passage One Roadside Inferno 89
Passage Two Disaster on a Mountain 93
Passage Three Is Haiti Ready for Hurricane Season? 97
Passage Four Horror and Tragedy in Australia's Worst Wildfires 101
Unit 7 Travel 106
Passage One A Free Farm Holiday If You're Willing to Work 106
Passage Two Going Our Way:101 Dalmatian Sights 110
Passage Three 36 Hours in Panama City,Panama 114
Passage Four Discovering Canada's Cool Capital 119
Unit 8 Books 124
Passage One A Novel of Hemingway's First Marriage 124
Passage Two Sudden Awakening 128
Passage Three Boys to Men 131
Passage Four Sarah Pekkanen on the Gender Divide in Children's Books 134
Keys 139