Unit 1
Text A-1 The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind
Text A-2 WiUis Haviland Cartier -- the Father of Cool
Text B-1 Thomas Adams and the Invention of Chewing Gum
Text B-2 Einstein: Thinker and Inventor of the Modern World
Unit 2
Text A-1 Metropolitan Life Insurance
Text A-2 What Do American Consumers Like?
Text B-1 How Postoptics Gets 58% of Its Online Sales through Google Advertising
Text B-2 Two Kinds of American Business Heroes
Unit 3
Text A-1 Technology in Workplace Widens Generation Gap
Text A-2 Matchmaking in the 21st Century: Technology and Yesierday's Values Can Connect
Text B-1 Online Shopping
Text B-2 Some Benefits of Space Technology
Unit 4
Text A-1 How to Find Meaning in Your Work and Your Life
Text A-2 Staying Happy
Text B-1 "Journalist... Rewarding, but Very Political"
Text B-2 A University Diploma
Unit 5
Text A-1 Online Database Pinpoints Plagiarism
Text A-2 The Brain Revolution and Ethics
Text B-1 Survey: Many Students Say Cheating's OK
Text B-2 The Commercialization of Higher Education
Unit 6
Text A-1 Modern Life: It's One'Step at a Time, Only Much Quicker
Text A-2 Welcome to the New Busy
Text B-1 Ready to Snap: Crazy,Busy and the Lure of Modern Life
Text B-2 Laughter in a Busy World
Unit 7
Text A-1 The Bounty of the Sea
Text A-2 Man and Nature
Text B-1 Trash Troubles
Text B-2 Naturalist Has Whale of a Time in Alaska
Unit 8
Text A-1 At Century' s End, a Nostalgic Glance Back
Text A-2 Flight" An Invention That Shrank the World
Text B-1 The Digital Age
Text B-2 The Creation of the Automotive World
Appendix
Key to Comprehension Exercises
