Unit 1
Text A-1 Why Learn Another Language?
Text A-2 Tips on Studying a Foreign Language
Text B-1 How to Study Effectively
Text B-2 What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
Unit 2
Text A-1 Remembering My Grandparents.
Text A-2 Leaf and Loaf.
Text B-1 The True Story of a Young Man.
Text B-2 A Game of Light and Shade
Unit 3
Text A-1 A Long Walk Home
Text A-2 The Disappearing Generation Gap
Text B-1 Rites of Passage
Text B-2 The Last Adventure
Unit 4
Text A-1 The Fun and Excitement of \"Reality\"
Text A-2 Future Talk
Text B-1 E-mail Is for Old People
Text B-2 Talk to Me
Unit 5
Text A-1 A Young, Blind Expert on Computers
Text A-2 As Dream Comes True
Text B-1 Go for the Gold
Text B-2 Across the Frozen Sea
Unit 6
Text A-1 In Every Era There Are Fads, Crazes and Trends
Text A-2 Txt Msg Phenomenon: R U in2 It?
Text B-1 Reality TV: A Fad or the Future?
Text B-2 The MySpace and Facebook Generation
Unit 7
Text A-1 Why English?
Text A-2 Reading -- the Most Important Way to Learn English
Text B-1 Two Languages
Text B-2 Conversational Ball Games
Unit 8
Text A-1 Acid Rain
Text A-2 Industry and the Environment
Text B-1 Global Warming May Not End Up Being Warm at All
Text B-2 Rubbish Disposal
Appendix
Key to Comprehension Exercises