Introduction to Important Reading Strategies and Skills

Unit 1 Learning

  Text A Learning and the Brain

  Text B Teenage Brains

Unit 2 Employer and Employee Satisfaction

  Text A Telecommuting

  Text B Stupid Jobs Are Good to Relax with

Unit 3 Social Problems.

  Text A Workplace Violence Is a Source of and Reaction to Stress

  Text B To Arm or Not to Arm

Unit 4 Strategies

  Text A Language Learning Strategies

  Text B How to Make Math Class Interesting?

Unit 5 Traffic and Transportation

  Text A Seat Belt Usage

  Text B Smarter Cities Program

Unit 6 National and International Politics

  Text A Politics of Australia

  Text B Political Apologies

Unit 7 New Technologies

  Text A New Technologies Create New Problems

  Text B How to Use Your Laptop to Locate an Earthquake

Unit 8 Competition

  Text A Knowledge-based Competition

  Text B Why Competition Is Good

Unit 9 Energy

  Text A Energy Sources and Uses

  Text B What Breakthroughs Do Biofuels Need?

Unit 10 Health

  Text A Should Dentists Offer Health Screenings?

  Text B Five Ways to Keep Your Fitness Resolutions Alive

Unit 11 Forest and Nature

  Text A Dry, Hot and Windy

  Text B Drug Trafficking Poses Surprising Threats to Rain Forests

Unit 12 Ecosystem

  Text A Can Ecosystems Be Eestored?

  Text B Warmer, Werrwe and Better

Unit 13 Deserts

  Text A Deserts

  Text B Sahara

Unit 14 Tourist Attractions

  Text A Grand Canyon National Park

  Text B Athens City Break Guide

Unit 15 Matters of Public Concern

  Text A Privacy, Neither Absolute nor Highly Valued

  Text B Reasons for Extramarital Affairs

Unit 16 Invention

  Text A About Crittercam

  Text B Steven Jobs

Unit 17 Environment

  Text A European Youth Face Environmental Hazards

  Text B What Killed the Great Beasts of North America?

Unit 18 Living Species

  Text A Warming to Extinction

  Text B The Secret of Dolphins' Speed Is Not Skin-deep

Answer Key