Unit 1 Nine to five 1
Passage 1 Five Insider Tips for Job-Seeking College Grads 1
Passage 2 Job Fairs 5
Passage 3 The Growing Job Crisis Needs Solutions Now 9
Passage 4 A Career Switcher Looks to Build a Better Resume 13
Unit 2 A good read 17
Passage 1 Reading:Luxury or Necessity? 17
Passage 2 Top Ten Gift Ideas for Book Lovers and Readers 21
Passage 3 Book Clubs for the Chattering Classes 25
Passage 4 Brains,Books and the Future of Print 29
Unit 3 Fashion statements 33
Passage 1 Fashion Everywhere! 33
Passage 2 All About Nail Art-It's Not Just About Painting Your Nails! 37
Passage 3 Fashion Modelling-It's Not Just About a Pretty Face! 40
Passage 4 The World of Tattoos 44
Unit 4 Money talks 47
Passage 1 My Family's No-Buy Experiment 47
Passage 2 Mind over Money 51
Passage 3 How to Save Money You Didn't Know You Had 55
Passage 4 The New Internet Start-up Boom:Get Rich Slow 59
Unit 5 Gender studies 63
Passage 1 The Male Minority 63
Passage 2 Changing Gender Roles Within the Workplace 67
Passage 3 What Women Want Now 71
Passage 4 Are Co-ed or Single-sex Lessons Best? 75
Unit 6 All in the past 79
Passage 1 Neanderthal 79
Passage 2 Mankind's Greatest Explorations and Adventures 84
Passage 3 The Ancient Olympics 88
Passage 4 Stonehenge 92
Unit 7 No place like home 97
Passage 1 Making New Memories of Home 97
Passage 2 How Smart Could I Make My Dumb Manhattan Apartment? 101
Passage 3 Living in a Share House 105
Passage 4 It Takes a Thief 109
Unit 8 Architecture:frozen music 113
Passage 1 Just Another Pretty Face? 113
Passage 2 Cambridge Public Library 118
Passage 3 Yale's Green Ark 122
Passage 4 Beijing National Stadium,"the Bird's Nest" 127
Unit 9 Words of wisdom 131
Passage 1 Schmooze and Win-"Small"Talk Your Way to Success 131
Passage 2 The Ten Most Popular Foreign Languages in the US 136
Passage 3 ESL Technologies:The Universal Language 140
Passage 4 Life Is a Sales Job 144
Unit 10 The human spirit 147
Passage 1 Can You Push Yourself Too Hard? 147
Passage 2 Fight for Survival 151
Passage 3 The Apollo Expeditions to the Moon 155
Passage 4 Climbing Mount Qomolangma 159
Answer Key 163