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Unit One Presidents at War

 Text A To Make War, Presidents Lie

 Text B Presidents at War

Unit Two Sleeping and Dreaming

 Text A Why We Sleep?

 Text B What Your Dreams Really Mean?

Unit Three Money

 Text A Get Your Money's Worth

 Text B Saving Money

Unit Four Traveling and Mountaineering

 Text A A Glimpse of Beijing

 Text B Mountain Climbing

Unit Five Journalism

 Text A A Historical Survey of Journalism

 Text B BBC World Service

Unit Six Culture Shock

 Text A What is Culture Shock

 Text B Resolving Conflict in a Multicultural Environment

Unit Seven Superstition

 Text A What Is Superstition?

 Text B After All We Know But Little

Unit Eight Hollywood

 Text A The Hollywood Sign

 Text B Hollywood Censored: The Production Code

Unit Nine Psychology

 Text A Cross-Cultural Psychology in the 21st Century

 Text B Consumer Psychology

Unit Ten Mysteries

 Text A Black Holes

 Text B Crop Circle Phenomenon

Unit Eleven Creativity

 Text A Alex F. Osborne: Father of the Brainstorm

 Text B Who Says You Can't Wear Red Shoes?

Unit Twelve Nature and Nurture

 Text A What Makes Us Do It?

 Text B How Are Your Genes?

Unit Thirteen Health

 Text A Learning from China

 Text B Red Meat Is Strongly Linked To Cancer

Unit Fourteen Challenge

 Text A Blind to Failure

 Text B On Top of the World

Unit Fifteen My Life

 Text A Chapter Seventeen

 Text B Chapter Twenty-Eight

Unit Sixteen Science and Fiction

 Text A Science and Fiction

 Text B The "Birth" of a Monster