Unit 1 Text - 1 Shackleton's Leadership of the Endurance Expedition

Text - 2 The Man Who Really Conquered Mt. Qomolangma

Text - 3 Memories of Afghanistan

Text - 4 Buzz - Bombs and Doodlebugs

Unit 2 Text - 1 The Reusable Spacecraft

Text - 2 Will Human Jobs Be Replaced by Robots in the Future?

Text - 3 Maglev: A New Generation in Railroad Technology

Text - 4 Letters: Obsolete Technology

Unit 3 Text - 1 The Job Hunt: How to Start a Successful Career

Text - 2 A Tale of Two Successful Student Job Seekers

Text - 3 I Juggled a Full - Time Job While Launching My Startup

Text - 4 The Kind of Work Daddy Does

Unit 4 Text - 1 Is the World Flat?

Text - 2 The World Isn't Flat - It's Networked

Text - 3 Postcard - Perfect: The Big Business of City Branding

Text - 4 Americans and Food

Unit 5 Text - 1 Fast - Food Nation

Text - 2 Doggie Bag: Why Are the British Too Embarrassed to Ask?

Text - 3 Anywhere the Eye Can See, It's Likely to See an Ad

Text - 4 It's All at the Mall

Unit 6 Text - 1 Cultural Differences in Time

Text - 2 Scenes from the Culture Clash

Text - 3 The Pace of 21st Century Life

Text - 4 Slow Is Beautiful

Unit 7 Text - 1 My Memories of September 11, 2001

Text - 2 Remembering 911

Text - 3 911 Museum: Tragedy Turns the Ordinary into Memorial

Text - 4 Engineers Study 911 for Lessons on How to Help Buildings

Withstand Threats

Unit 8 Text - 1 The Joy of Travel: Finding theUnexpected

Text - 2 Ecotourism

Text - 3 Business Etiquette When Travelling Abroad

Text - 4 Jones Beach

Appendix Key to Comprehension Exercises