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Unit One Pressure and Mental Health

Text A A Story About Stress

Text B Mental Health：Strengthening Our Response

Text C Supplementary Reading Dress Your Stress

Unit Two Interaction and Internet

Text A She's Leaving Home

Text B Relationships-Community in Cyberspace

Text C Supplementary Reading Influence of Internet on People's Social and Psychological Realities

Unit Three Economic Crisis and Life

Text A Money That Grows on Trees

Text B Life After the Financial Crisis

Text C Supplementary Reading Maslow on Happiness

Unit Four Rural Tourism and Economic Improvement

Text A A Fairyland-Pure New Zealand

Text B Rural Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation in Africa

Text C Supplementary Reading Ten Tips When Traveling Overseas

Unit Five Agricultural Extension and Rural Development

Text A Country Life Movement

Text B The Agricultural Extension System and the "New American Farmer"

Text C Supplementary Reading Rural Development Problem in the United Kingdom-A Third World Perspective

Unit Six Social Justice and Equality

Text A A Leg Up

Text B The Problem Pseudo Democracy

Text C Supplementary Reading Social Justice and Globalization： Are They Compatible?

Unit Seven Life Science and Morality

Text A Is Cloning Good or Bad

Text B The Ethical Justification for Minor Sibling Bone Marrow Donation：A Case Study

Text C Supplementary Reading Pros and Cons of Stem Cell Research

Unit Eight Food Security and Health

Text A Safer Coffee

Text B Safer Food for Better Health-WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety

Text C Supplementary Reading Genetic Engineering and Food Irradiation

Unit Nine Environment and Ecology

Text A Substitutes for a Land Ethic

Text B Of Man and Nature

Text C Supplementary Reading Eco-Defense

Unit Ten Culture and Education

Text A My Life Stories as an Eurasian

Text B Boring from Within：The Art of the Freshman Essay

Text C Supplementary Reading Orientalism

Model Test One

Model Test Two

Model Test Three

Model Test Four

Key to Exercises

Key to Model Tests

References

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