Contents
Unit 1 Technology
Text 1 Tech Free!
Text 2 Everything Must Go Online!
— Iowa Man Inventories All His Stuff to Sell It Off
Text 3 Home Automation
Text 4 The Immobile Phone
Text 5 The World of Tomorrow

Unit 2 Nation
Text 1 A British Wedding
Text 2 Keeping Up with the Tarahumara
Text 3 A Nation of Armchair Athletes?
Text 4 Customs Around the World
Text 5 My Gypsy Childhood

Unit 3 People
Text 1 The Training of Mulan — The Woman Warrior
Text 2 The Headmaster Who Has Made a Deep
Impact on My Life
Text 3 Super Sherpa
Text 4 The Cleverest Man on Earth
Text 5 Ginni Little: Volunteer Bat-rescue Worker

Unit 4 Jobs
Text 1 The First Job
Text 2 Unusual Jobs
Text 3 Why Don’t You Get a Proper Job?
Text 4 My Early Career
Text 5 Lucy’s First Job

Unit 5 Travel
Text 1 A Visit to Stratford
Text 2 Around the World in Eighty Days
Text 3 An Unusual Journey
Text 4 Guilt-free Holidays
Text 5 Disappearing into Africa
Answers for Reference