Unit 1 LOVE WORKS MIRACLES 1
Passage 1 Love Works a Miracle 3
Passage 2 Because I Care About You 7
Passage 3 An Old Man's Love Works Ordinary Mi racles 12
Unit 2 HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE 17
Passage 1 Being Happy After Losing Money 19
Passage 2 How to Find Happiness Within Yourself When Life's Got You Down 23
Passage 3 Ten Ways to Be Happier 27
Unit 3 THE INTERNET HAS CHANGED OUR LIFE 33
Passage 1 How the Internet Has Changed Our Everyday Life？ 35
Passage 2 What the Net Has Not Changed 40
Passage 3 A Brief History of the Internet and Related Networks 44
Unit 4 THE JOY OF READING 51
Passage 1 What Reading Really Means to Me 53
Passage 2 One Family's Fun-Filled Guide to Reading Success 57
Passage 3 How Schools Are Destroying the Joy of Reading 62
Unit 5 GENERATION GAP 67
Passage 1 Retaining Quality Gen Ys 69
Passage 2 Generation Gap？“Online Gap”Widens Divide Between Parents and Children 74
Passage 3 Car Generation Gap：Five Ways Our Autos Have Changed 78
Unit 6 POSITIVE LIFE ATTITUDE 85
Passage 1 Think Positive—Be a Success 87
Passage 2 My Journey Towards a Positive Life Attitude 91
Passage 3 Attitude Determines Altitude 95
Unit 7 RACISM AND SEXISM 101
Passage 1 A Cure for Racism in America：Seeing People as Individuals 103
Passage 2 Sexism in America and How You Can Stop It 108
Passage 3 Not the K ind of Racism You Hear About Often 113
Unit 8 LIFE'S LESSON 119
Passage 1 It Doesn't Concern You？ 121
Passage 2 Critical Lessons You Didn't Learn in School 125
Passage 3 The Seed 130
APPENDIX Key and Answers 135