Unit 1 Globalisation

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Free Trade Fallacies

Text 2 Globalisation and Its Critics

Text 3 Good Old Invisible Hand

Unit 2 Sustainable Development

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 The Great Race

Text 2 The Cost of Command-and-Control

Text 3 Enter the Market

Unit 3 Business Management

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Sam Walton and Wal-Mart

Text 2 Why Enron Went Bust

Text 3 GM Signs Deal for Daewoo Motor Parts

Unit 4 Economic Problems

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 A Dismal Science Review

Text 2 Could This Be Rational Exuberance?

Text 3 A Bullish Technocrat in a China Shop

Test Yourself(1)

Unit 5 Science and Ethic

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Fox's Flapdoodle

Text 2 Of Headless Mice...and Men

Text 3 Paralyzed People Are Fooled by a Super Bowl Ad

Unit 6 Controversial Issues

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 "Humane"Execution

Text 2 The Titanic Riddle

Text 3 Why Writers Attack Writers

Unit 7 Nurturing Child

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Fellow Nerds:Let's Celebrate Nerdiness!

Text 2 Sense of Self

Text 3 The Parent Trap

Unit 8 Your Health

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Get Some Sleep

Text 2 Licking the Habit

Text 3 Helping to Break Bad Habits

Test Yourself(2)

Unit 9 The New America

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Tomorrowland,Today

Text 2 To Live the Dream in the Silicon

Text 3 What's White,Anyway?

Unit 10 Innovation

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Who Cares about Tech?

Text 2 Innovation's New Math(Ⅰ)

Text 3 Innovation's New Math(Ⅱ)

Unit 11 Variables behind Facts

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 The Ghost of Herbert Hoover

Text 2 You Have to Walk the Talk

Text 3 Inside the Mind of the Modern Investor

Unit 12 EU and Euro

Part One Timed Reading

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development

Text 1 Why Monetary Union

Text 2 Unification and the United States

Text 3 A Dollar-Euro World

Test Yourself(3)

Key

Glossary