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Reading Skill: Finding the Main Idea
Unit 1 Generation
Text I: The Law vs. the Piano
Text II: Bricklayer's Boy
Unit 2 Music
Text I: A History of Music in America
Text II: Listening to Music
Unit 3 Climate
Text I: More Voices Needed in Climate Debate
Text II: Types of Climate
Unit 4 Work
Text I: Why People Work
Text II: Who Makes It to the Top?
Reading Skill: Recognizing the Pattern of Details
Unit 5 The African-Americans
Text I: How Barack Obama Became the First African American President of the US: The Untold Story
Text II: The First Black Woman Receiving Nobel Prize in Literature
Unit 6 Greek Stories
Text I: Orpheus and Eurydice
Text II: The Return of Odysseus
Unit 7 Attitude Towards Life
Text I:The Simple Wisdom in Having the Right Attitude
Text II: Dare Mighty Things
Unit 8 First Aid
Text I: First Aid
Text II: How to Deal with Common Emergencies
Reading Skill: Outlining
Unit 9 Creativity
Text I: Where Do Those Bright Ideas Come from?
Text II: How to Get a Great Idea?
Unit 10 Travel
Text I: What Are the Different Types of Tourism
Text II: Tourism
Unit 11 Examinations
Text I: Types of Examinations
Text II: Cheating: Alive and Flourishing
Unit 12 Intellectual Property
Text I: Copyright
Text II: The Apple Versus Samsung Patent Showdown Explained
Unit 13 War
Text I: The Changing Nature of War
Text II: How Did World War II Start?
Unit 14 Housing
Text I: Show Me the Way to Go Home
Text II: Mobile Homes
Unit 15 Drama
Text: A Question of Ethics