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Unit One The Value of Education
Text 1 What True Education Should Do
Text 2 Is Prestige Worth It?
Text 3 How Much That College Degree Is Really Worth
Unit Two Food Choices
Text 1 Yesterday Today
Text 2 "Slow Food" Movement Aims at Restoring the Joy of Eating
Text 3 What Else Influences Eating?
Unit Three E-mail
Text 1 We've Got Mail -- Always
Text 2 The Insidious Evil of Spam
Text 3 E-mail Is Ruining My Life!
Unit Four Mysteries
Text 1 The Bermuda Triangle --A Mystery of the Ocean
Text 2 The Nazca Lines
Text 3 Mysteries of Egypt
Unit Five Chinese Calligraphy
Text 1 The Origin of Chinese Characters
Text 2 Chinese Calligraphy
Text 3 Calligraphy Sage Wang Xizhi
Unit Six Animals
Text 1 Top Animal Cheats
Text 2 A Meeting
Text 3 Can Animals Think about Themselves?
Unit Seven Money
Text 1 Money Changes Everything
Text 2 Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Text 3 The Role of Money in Our Life
Unit Eight War
Text 1 The Atom Bomb, Einstein and Me
Text 2 Women and Children in the Silent War
Text 3 War's Impact at Home Falls Hard on Relative Few
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