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Introduction to Important Reading Strategies and Skills
UNIT 1 Learning
Text A Learning and the Brain
Text B Prehistoric Viruses and the Function of the Brain
UNIT 2 Employer and Employee Satisfaction
Text A Resisting the Depersonalization of the Work Space
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 Traffic and Transportation
Text A Seat Belt Usage
Text B Self-driving Cars to Test City Limits
UNIT 5 New Technologies
Text A New Technologies Create New Problems
Text B How to Use Your Laptop to Locate an Earthquake
UNIT 6 Competition
Text A Knowledge-based Competition
Text B How Winning Leads to Cheating
UNIT 7 Energy
Text A Energy Sources and Uses
Text B What Breakthroughs Do Biofuels Need?
UNIT 8 Health
Text A Should Dentists Offer Health Screenings?
Text B A New Way to Detect Parkinson’s — by Smell
UNIT 9 Forest and Nature
Text A Dry, Hot and Windy
Text B Drug Trafficking Poses Surprising Threats to Rain Forests
UNIT 10 Ecosystem
Text A Can Ecosystems Be Restored?
Text B Ocean Heat Waves Are Getting Worse
UNIT 11 Deserts
Text A Deserts
Text B Sahara
UNIT 12 Tourist Attractions
Text A Grand Canyon National Park
Text B Death Valley’s Harsh Environment Home to Beauty, Wonder
UNIT 13 Public Concerns
Text A Privacy, Neither Absolute nor Highly Valued
Text B FaceApp, Aging and Loneliness
UNIT 14 Invention
Text A About Crittercam
Text B Steven Jobs
UNIT 15 Environment
Text A European Youth Face Environmental Hazards
Text B What Killed the Great Beasts of North America?
UNIT 16 Living Species
Text A Warming to Extinction
Text B Pesticides Are Killing off the Andean Condor
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