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Lesson One Pains

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Families Grieve Loss of Loved Ones in Crash

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Making History : A Soldier ' s Tale - World

War Ⅱ Will Soon be Secondhand

Lesson Two Catastrophe

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Editorial: Tsunami

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: The 12-Step Tsunami Trauma Survival Guide

Lesson Three International Relations

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: US Spies ' Dead Wrong ' on Iraq WMD

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: US Relied on 'Drunken Liar' to Justify War

' Crazy' Iraqi spy was full of misinformation, says report

Lesson Four Law

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Wisconsin Shooter was Upset over Sermon

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Ratzmann Shootings: A Theory of Motive

Lesson Five Sports

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power, 2006 Australian Open

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading. Serena Williams

Lesson Six Travel

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: The Road to Shangri-La

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading, 12 Tips for Bridging the Cultural Divide

Lesson Seven Disease

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power. Vietnam is Seeking International Assistance to Fight Bird Flu

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: A Medical Mystery Man Bounces back from A-vian Flu

Lesson Eight Management

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Disney Picks Iger to Replace Eisner as CEO

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Eisner ' s Post-Disney Life Hard to Picture

Lesson Nine Environmental Protection

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Feted and Hated, Kyoto Enters Into Force

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Kyoto Treaty Takes Effect at Midnight

Lesson Ten Language

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power. Don ' t Speak the Language? Live With the Locals

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Expert : New 'must learn ' language likely to

be Mandarin share of people who are native English speakers de-

clining

Lesson Eleven Statesman

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Profile : Rafik Hariri

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Mourning of Lebanese Leader, Cries for HisVision

Lesson Twelve Commerce

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power. Is Online Retailing a Victim of its Own Success?

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading. Amazon. corn Earnings Disappoint Investors

Lesson Thirteen Myth

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: "Signs" Directs More People to Look into Crop-circle Mystery

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Mystery of Feral Children

Lesson Fourteen Automobiles

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Big, Boring is Better

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Cameras or Not, Safe Driving isn ' t Child ' s Play

Lesson Fifteen Education

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power. "It ' s Lowly at the Top. What Became of the Great

College Presidents ?"

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading. The Man in the Ivory Tower Harvard ' s Law-

rence Summers is a Study in Controversy

Lesson Sixteen Animal

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Depictions of Wolves in History. A Cautionary Tale

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Communication

Lesson Seventeen Movies

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: "Million Dollar Baby" Dominates Oscars

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading. Ang Lee Seen as Front-runner in Oscar Race

Lesson Eighteen Morality

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Schiavo' s Feeding Tube is Removed--Congressional

Leaders ' Legal Maneuvering Fails to Stop Judge ' s Order

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: World Divided on Ethics of Terri Schiavo Case

Lesson Nineteen Family

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: Now You Ask Me ?

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Girls Take Strain of Parents' Split

Lesson Twenty Religion

Introduction

Learning Objectives

Warm-Up Exercises

Reading Power: All-Embracing Man of Action for a New Era o.f Papacy

New Words and Expressions

Notes

Final Check

Data File

Supplementary Reading: Cardinals Elect Ratzinger Pope

Key