Unit One Family Life

Passage 1 Precious First Born:Mothers Admit They Really Do Favour First Child

Passage 2 A Promise of Flowers

Passage 3 Chinese Culture:Role of Family

Passage 4 What I Want for You—A Letter Obama Wrote to His Daughter

Unit Two CUlture and Education

Passage 1 A Decline in IQ of the Generations after 1990s?

Passage 2 China Announces Plans for Universal Health Care

Passage 3 UCLA Course Teaches High School Students Language of Their Parents and Grandparents

Passage 4 Flu Drugs'Unhelpful'in Children

Unit Three Sports and Leisure

Passage 1 Golf Set to Join Olympics

Passage 2 The Early History of Wimbledon

Passage 3 Mutu's Case Tests Sport's Private Courts

Passage 4 Does Exercise Really Keep Us Healthy?

Unit Four Travel and Entertainment

Passage 1 Worth the Walk

Passage 2 Beijing:Need to Know

Passage 3 Americans on Vacation

Passage 4 Essential(Healthy)Travel Tips

Unit Five Mass Media

Passage 1 Teens,Television,and Depression

Passage 2 Internet

Passage 3 E-book

Passage 4 British Daily Papers

Unit Six Wealth and Health

Passage 1 Swine Flu Kills Dozens in Britain

Passage 2 Experts Criticize Tobacco Control System

Passage 3 Drinking Blamed for Oral Cancer Rise

Passage 4 Ten Facts about Women's Health

Unit Seven Animal World

Passage 1 Chimpanzees'Hunt Using Spears'

Passage 2 Extinction Hits'Whole Families'

Passage 3 Wood Harvest Puts Pandas at Risk

Passage 4 Animal Emotions

Unit Eight Social Ethics

Passage 1 SINDIs—The 21st Century Divorced Women

Passage 2 Christian Attitudes to Same-sex Marriage

Passage 3 "Moral Vacuum"in Science Lessons

Passage 4 How to Save the Teens—Why Do Some Teens Behave Recklessly?

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