1Passage A: Buses Are Good Test of Virtue 1Passage B: Get the Job You Want (Speed Reading) 5Passage C: Job Hunting 82Passage A: Making a Cultural Change 12Passage B: The British Family Life (Speed Reading) 16Passage C: The Sacred "Rac" 193Passage A: The Second Information Revolution 22Passage B: Television: How It Affects Us (Speed Reading) 26Passage C: When the Computer Is Down 284Passage A: How to Tell If Someone Is Lying 32Passage B: The Secrets of a Very Long Life (Speed Reading ) 37Passage C: Don't Believe Everything You Hear 405Passage A: The Night the President Met the Burglar 43Passage B: Playing Princess Diana (Speed Reading ) 46Passage C: Visit to a President 496Passage A: Animal Education 53Passage B: Talk to the Animals (Speed Reading ) 57Passage C: Tobermory: The Talking Cat 607Passage A: The Virtue Called Devotion 63Passage B: Clone Ewe, but Not You (Speed Reading ) 67Passage C: Personal Relationships 708Passage A: The Simple Life: a Fine Dinner, a Drink and Jail 74Passage B: Police on Bicycles (Speed Reading ) 78Passage C: People Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police 829Passage A: Nuclear Energy: Pros and Cons 85Passage B: Bringing Power to the People (Speed Reading ) 90Passage C: Food Resources and World Hunger 9310Passage A: "Mind If I Give You Cancer?" 97Passage B: Environmental Scientist (Speed Reading ) 102Passage C: Adapting to Global Greenhouse 106Glossary 110Phrases and Expressions 123Key to the Exercises 125