1 ENGLISH STUDIES AND TESTS 1
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 1
Section 2 Being All Ears 5
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 7
Passage A A Nude at the Party! 7
Passage B Whose English Is It.Anyway? 10
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 14
Having Some Fun 15
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 16
2 ART OF NEGOTIATIONS 16
Section 2 Being All Ears 20
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 22
Passage A Suggested Salary Negotiation Guidelines forRecent College Graduates 22
Passage B Dollars and Sense 27
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 29
Having Some Fun 30
3 DNA AND CLONING 31
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 31
Section 2 Being All Ears 35
Passage A Genetically Engineered Foods:Uh—Oh!! 37
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 37
Passage B To Clone or Not to Clone? 41
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 43
Having Some Fun 45
4 THE IT AGE 46
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 46
Section 2 Being All Ears 50
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 52
Passage A 101 Pixels of Fun 52
Passage B Ban Cell Phones 57
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 60
Having Some Fun 62
5 INTERNET AND LIFE 64
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 64
Section 2 Being All Ears 68
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 70
Passage A The Internet Changed My Life 70
Passage B How Being Online has Changed My Life 74
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 77
Having Some Fun 78
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 79
6 STUDYING OVERSEAS 79
Section 2 Being All Ears 84
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 86
Passage A Are You Prepared for Learning Shock? 86
Passage B Climate Clothing in the U.K. 90
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 93
Having Some Fun 95
7 ART IN ENGINEERING 96
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 96
Section 2 Being All Ears 100
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 103
Passage A Attacks on the World Trade Centrean Engineering Perspective 103
Passage B Ellen Ochoa and Jennifer Matozco:Two Great Female Engineers 107
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 110
Having Some Fun 112
8 ENVIRONMENT 113
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 113
Section 2 Being All Ears 118
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 119
Passage A Poisoning Our Food and Our Farmers 119
Passage B How Our Food Choices Can Help Save the Environment 123
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 126
Having Some Fun 127
9 CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 128
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 128
Section 2 Being All Ears 132
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 134
Passage A Attacking Anxiety 134
Passage B How to Spell Success 138
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 141
Having Some Fun 142
Section 1 Talking Face to Face 143
10 COPYRIGHT AND FAKE COMMODITY ISSUES 143
Section 2 Being All Ears 147
Section 3 Maintaining a Sharp Eye 149
Passage A Copyright Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Organizations 149
Passage B Music Group Files 261 Copyright Lawsuits against Intemet Users 153
Section 4 Trying Your Hand 156
Having Some Fun 157
SELF-ASSESSMENT 158
KEYS TRANSLATIONS 177
VOCABULARY PHRASES 247