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Introduction to Important Reading Strategies and Skills
UNIT 1 American Life
Text A Choosing the Way We Live
Text B Brief History: The American Family
UNIT 2 Government
Text A Government in Britain
Text B Government in the U.S.
UNIT 3 Job
Text A Unemployed U.S. Professionals Grapple with New Job-hunting Techniques
Text B My First Job — The Parking-lot Sweeper
UNIT 4 Discovery
Text A How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Medicine
Text B Improving Your Memory
UNIT 5 Education
Text A American Style of Education
Text B Which Is Better: School Online or a Standard Education?
UNIT 6 Morality
Text A Morality Without Free Will
Text B Moral Issues
UNIT 7 Friendship
Text A How Friends Can Help You
Text B Friendship in the Age of Social Media
UNIT 8 Social Changes
Text A Major Consequences of Modernization
Text B Cultural Change
UNIT 9 Mental Health
Text A Overcoming Loneliness
Text B “Shopping Addiction” Can Cause Harm, and It’s Moved Online
UNIT 10 Physical Health
Text A While You Were Sleeping
Text B Walking
UNIT 11 American Culture
Text A Culture and Cuisine
Text B How Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday Became a Federal Holiday
UNIT 12 Water
Text A Household Water
Text B Water Wars
UNIT 13 Sports
Text A Breaking Barriers Through Sports
Text B How Much Exercise Do I Need?
UNIT 14 Economy
Text A Wage Against the Machine
Text B The Place of Business and Work in U.S. Society
UNIT 15 Women Problems
Text A Iceland Leads the Way to Women’s Equality in the Workplace
Text B Women in the Workforce — The First to Go as Economies Shrink
UNIT 16 Environment
Text A Natural Gas Use Is Rising: Is That Good News or Bad News for the Climate?
Text B The Worst Climate Scenarios May No Longer Be the Most Likely
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