THE TEXTS

Unit 1 A Glimpse of English

Unit 2 Swimming Skill

Unit 3 Private Space

Unit 4 The Reach of Imagination(adapted)

Unit 5 The Strange Burden of a Name(adapted)

Unit 6 Sources of Permanent Capital

Unit 7 Cocaine:The Devil Within

Unit 8 What is Love?

Unit 9 Literature,Ideology and Society

Unit 10 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

Unit 11 Fires of Destruction and Creation

Unit 12 When the Center Does Not Hold

Unit 13 Labor Market Problems

Unit 14 Health Care Crisis of America

Unit 15 Will This Jumbo Ever Fly?

Unit 16 Quiet Savers of the Land

Unit 17 The Invisible Poor

Unit 18 A Slow Walk of Trees

Unit 19 George Washington

Unit 20 The Eloquent Sounds of Silence

APPENDICES

Passive voices

A List of irregular verbs

Key to the exercises