[目录]
Unit One People
　Text 1 Deep Blues and Sunny Yellows
　Text 2 Bill Gates in His Boyhood
　Text 3 The Man Who Made Mickey Mouse
　Text 4 Mark Twain and the Muddy Mississippi
　Text 5 Julia Roberts
Unit Two The Information Society
　Text 1 INDEX
　Text 2 Six Television Series
　Text 3 Cape Town & Peninsula Region
　Text 4 Television-Viewing Guide
　Text 5 Email a Message at Your Peril
Unit Three Cuisine
　Text 1 The Story of Sushi
　Text 2 Drink Advertising
　Text 3 The Sweet Taste of Summer
　Text 4 Spanish Cuisine
　Text 5 The Last Jar of Jelly
Unit Four Marriage
　Text 1 American Wedding Customs and Superstitions.
　Text 2 Creating a Prenuptial Agreement
　Text 3 The Science of a Happy Marriage
　Text 4 The Do's and Don'ts of Intercultural Marriages.
　Text 5 Loving Muriel
Unit Five Culture
　Text 1 Culture Shock
　Text 2 A Tale of Disbelief and Misadventure
　Text 3 British Pub Culture
　Text 4 Tea Culture
　Text 5 Arabs in America
Unit Six Travel
　Text 1 Hotel Sofitel Safety Information for Guests
　Text 2 Things to Expect in Australia
　Text 3 Penthouse Hotels Ltd. Exclusive Offer from Penthouse Hotels Limited.
　Text 4 Tips on Tipping
　Text 5 USAWeather Forecast
Unit Seven Life
　Text 1 Can There Be Anything Worse Than TV?
　Text 2 Life in a Violin Case
　Text 3 Generosity Is a Two-way Street
　Text 4 Why Measure Life in Heartbeats?
　Text 5 A Ball to Roll Around
Unit Eight Science and Technology
　Text 1 Why Do We Yawn?
　Text 2 Why Have We Got a Memory?
　Text 3 Plastic Spaceships to Take Mankind to Mars?
　Text 4 What Would Happen If the Earth Stopped Spinning?
　Text 5 Weird Science
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