Unit 1
Text-1 How the Automobile Shaped America: The 'Burbs
Text-2 America's Love Affair with the Car Is Fading
Text-3 Henry Ford, the Man Who Changed America
Text-4 Memory Lane Isn't What It Used to Be
Unit 2
Text-1 The Teenager Who Saved a Man with an SS Tattoo
Text-2 Two 7-Year-Old Boys, Two Dramatically Different News Stories
Text-3 That Black Southern Man and That White Northern Girl?
Text-4 She Wanted to Teach
Unit 3
Text-1 The History and Development of Suburbs.
Text-2 The End of the Suburbs
Text-3 Cities: How Crowded Life Is Changing Us
Text-4 Black Box Tells Its Secrets
Unit 4
Text-1 Carl Sagan and the Cosmos Legacy
Text-2 The Hubble Telescope
Text-3 Everything Equals E = mc2
Text-4 Black Holes
Unit 5
Text-1 The Modern Workplace: Flat, Flexible, and Wired Up
Text-2 Older Workers Transform the Modern Workplace
Text-3 Two Kinds of Buyers
Text-4 The Economics of Product Design
Unit 6
Text-1 The Meaning of Friendship in a Social Networked World
Text-2 How Does Social Media Affect Our Relationships? Interpersonal Communication in the Digital Age
Text-3 The Gift
Text-4 Linda's New Friend
Unit 7
Text-1 New Grads Drawn to New Businesses
Text-2 How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read
Text-3 A Decidedly Mixed Bag
Text-4 The Carpet Fitter
Text-1 Are Dolphins Also Persons?
Text-2 Well, Who's a Clever Species, Then?
Text-3 Do You Know Why We See Snow as White?
Text-4 Flowers in the Desert?
Appendix Key to Comprehension Exercises