PASSAGE 3 Plants and MankindBotany, the study of pants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. We don't know what our sto...
PASSAGE 5 Dining CustomEvery land has its own dining custom, and the United States is no exception. Americans feel that the first rule of being a poli...
PASSAGE 6 ComputersBefore the widespread use of computers, managers could not make full use of large amounts of valuable information about a company&#...
PASSAGE 8 American SportsThe United States is a sports-loving nation. Sports in America take a variety of forms; organized competitive struggles, whic...
PASSAGE 7 The Cold Places ?The Arctic is a polar region. It surrounds the North Pole.Like Antarctica, the Arctic is a land of ice and snow. Antarctica...
PASSAGE 9 Why is the Native Language Learnt So WellHow does it happen that children learn their mother tongue so well? When we compare them with adult...
PASSAGE 10 How Men Face the Fat ProblemIt is a pleasure to see men of a certain age worrying about their weight. Listening to them is not such a pleas...
PASSAGE 12 Kitchen DesignOver the years economic, social and technological factors have influenced the design of kitchens. Since it is often used simu...
PASSAGE 11 Too polite for Words ?A Japanese colleague the other day was talking about a meeting with a man whom she abruptly described using the Engli...
PASSAGE 13 The First settlement in North AmericaIt is very difficult to say just when colonization began. The first hundred years after Christopher Co...