Unit 1 Features
Passage 1 Fuel Costs Could End Cheap Flight Era
Passage 2 The Tories’ Psychosis over Europe Is Leading Them to Disaster
Passage 3 Dying with Debt: A Dirty Little Retirement Secret
Unit 2 Traveling
Passage 4 Motoring around Britain
Passage 5 Losing Oneselfin Bermuda
Passage 6 The First Resort
Unit 3 Life
Passage 7 Loose Lips Sink Shifts
Passage 8 If Only the Dollar Were Stronger
Passage 9 Women Find a Space of Their Own with Mom Caves
Unit 4 Culture
Passage 10 Do Different Languages Confer Different Personalities?
Passage 11 Homeland Finds a Motto: “You Sound Like You’re High”
Passage 12 Return of the Queen
Unit 5 Sports
Passage 13 Russia Eyes Waiving Visas for English Fans
Passage 14 One Club Wants to Use a Gene—Test to Spot the New Ronaldo.
Is This Football’s Future?
Passage 15 After a Plenty of Pain, Finally a Gain
Unit 6 Environment
Passage 16 When Nature Is Nurture
Passage 17 Lost in the Concrete Jungle
Passage 18 On the Move
Unit 7 Education
Passage 19 What’s New at the E—Library
Passage 20 A World View Must Be Part of School Culture
Passage 21 Balancing Prestige and Debt in Choosing a College
Unit 8 Health
Passage 22 Are Vaccines the Answer to Addiction?
Passage 23 Government Wamed on DIY Cancer Treatments
Passage 24 Obsessive Thoughts: A Darker Side of OCD
Key to the Exercises
Glossary