Unit 1
Section A
Text:Time-Conscious Americans
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Reading for the Main Idea in a Paragraph
Text: Culture Shock
Exercises
Unit 2
Section A
Text: Learning the Olympic Standard for Love
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Finding Out Word Meanings
Text: The Standard for Olympic Excellence
Exercises
Unit 3
Section A
Text: Marriage Across Nations
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Recognizing Differences Between Facts and
Opinions
Text: Rich Meeting His Future Mother-in-law
Exercises
Unit 4
Section A
Text: A Test of True Love
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Reading for the Key Idea in a Sentence
Text: Love Under the Nazis
Exercises
Unit 5
Section A
Text: Weeping for My Smoking Daughter
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Understanding Figurative Language
Text: Stop Spoiling Your Children
Exercises
Unit 6
Section A
Text: As His Name Is, So Is He!
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Scanning
Text: Judge by Appearances
Exercises
Unit 7
Section A
Text: Lighten Your Load and Save Your Life
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Skimming
Text: Are You a Workaholic?
Exercises
Section A
Unit8
Text: There''s a Lot More to Life than a Job
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Identifying the Writer''s Purpose
Text: What Youngsters Expect in Life
Exercises
Unit 9
Section A
Text: Never Be a Quitter in Face of Life
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Predicting the Writer''s Ideas
Text: From Hardship Comes Success
Exercises
Unit 10
Section A
Text: Reports on Britain Under the Bombs
Exercises
Section B
Reading Skills: Denotation and Connotation
Text: Forty-Three Seconds over Hiroshima
Exercises
Appendix
Glossary