Unit 1 1
Text A Staying Alive at 20 Below 1
Text B The Blitzkieg Billionaire 7
Unit 2 13
Text A A License to Kill 13
Text B China Is Right 19
Unit 3 24
Text A The Return of a Heretic 24
Text B Adrift on a Sinking Floe 33
Unit 4 38
Text A The West's Debt to China 38
Text B What if Women Ruled the World? 44
Unit 5 49
Text A Comments on Management Education in Canada 49
Text B The Quick Fix Society 56
Text C Business Negotiations 61
Text D The Mute Singer 66
Unit 6 70
Text A President George W.Bush's Inaugural Address 70
Text B New York 75
Unit 7 81
Text A What is a patent? 81
Unit 8 90
Text A The Oceans—Man's Last Great Resource 90
Text B Are Books an Endangered Species? 94
Text C The Patient's Right to Die 97
Unit 9 101
Text A Why Risk Political,Economic Warfare with Asia's Colossus? 101
Text B Of Ladders and Letters 107
Unit 10 112
Text A Friends,Good Friends and Such Good Friends 112
Text B Basic American Values and Beliefs 118
Unit 11 124
Text A You Are What You Say? 124
Text B Why We Laugh 131
Text C The Laws of Nature 135
Unit 12 140
Text A In the Shadow of Man 140
Text B Using Land Wisely 148
Unit 13 153
Text A The Model Millionaire 153
Text B Foreign Capital:Two-Edged Sword 159
Text C A Young Boy's Ambition 162
Unit 14 166
Text A The Ultimate Price 166
Text B A Mild Attack of Locust 172
Text C Old People 180
Unit 15 183
Text A An Empire and Its Problems 183
Text B The International Monetary Fund 190
Text C The Boys Who Grew up to Kill 193
Unit 16 198
Text A Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal(1) 198
Text B Franklin D.Roosevelt and the New Deal(2) 204
Unit 17 210
Text A When the Juvenile System Becomes a Cure That kills 210
Text B Europe's Adventure Begins 216
Unit 18 222
Text A Regional Economic Development 222
Text B The Wedding 227
Text C Micronutrient Malnutrition—Half of the World's Population Affected 232
Unit 19 236
Text A Grouping the Gifted 236
Text B Skin 244
Text C Theft 248