Unit 1 Discovering yourself

Passage 1 Discover Yourself in 20 Minutes

Passage 2 Maintain a Healthy Relationship with Your Parents

Passage 3 Help Yourself Through Hard Times

Passage 4 Figuring Out One's Personal Identity

Unit 2 Childhood memories

Passage 1 In Summer,Kids Need Real Play Time

Passage 2 What Dads Are Made Of

Passage 3 Teacher's Bet

Passage 4 Fighting Against Child Labor

Unit 3 Art for art's sake

Passage 1 Come On Kids,Let's Make Music!

Passage 2 Can a Film Change the World?

Passage 3 Science Fiction:The Stories of Now

Passage 4 Culture Crisis:The Recession and the Arts

Unit 4 Changing times

Passage 1 How Family Life Has Changed in One Generation

Passage 2 Choosing a Career in Changing Times

Passage 3 The Leasing Life

Passage 4 Changing Face of Higher Education

Unit 5 A place in society

Passage 1 Climbing the Social Ladder

Passage 2 The Importance of Community to Individuals

Passage 3 Tips for Socializing with People

Passage 4 How to Have Confidence in Any Situation

Unit 6 Streets full of heroes

Passage 1 Flight from the Fire:A Dramatic Condor Rescue

Passage 2 The Princess of Sales

Passage 3 Reflections on Real-Life Heroes

Passage 4 The Evolution of Heroism

Unit 7 The secret life of science

Passage 1 Better World:Top Tech for a Cleaner Planet

Passage 2 Trash Trackers:The Secret Life of Garbage

Passage 3 Echo Vision:The Man Who Sees with Sound

Passage 4 What Your Choice of Words Says About Your Personality

Unit 8 High days and holidays

Passage 1 Happy Meaningful Holidays

Passage 2 Humor:Valentine's Day

Passage 3 The Weirdest Holidays that I Have Ever Come Across in My Life

Passage 4 Simple Ways to Beat the Effects of Holiday Overeating

Unit 9 What's in a name

Passage 1 Does Your Name Spell Success?

Passage 2 Nicked Names

Passage 3 Finding Our History:African-American Names

Passage 4 An Introduction to Given Names

Unit 10 Tales ancient and modern

Passage 1 Chinese Mythology and Fantasies

Passage 2 Gods and Goddesses in Greek Mythology

Passage 3 Common Types of Myths

Passage 4 Modem Mythology

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