Unit 1
Diversified Media
Text A The Economics of Groupon:the Dismal Scoop on Groupon
Text B The Children''s Book Comes to Life Electronically.Should We
Be Alarmed?
Text C To Tweet or Not to Tweet
Unit 2
Culture Shock
Text A The Problem of Adjustment to New Cultural Environment
Text B How Culture ShockAfiects Newcomers?
Text C Copingwith Culture Shock
Unit 3
Troubles
Text A overboard
Text B Americans Detained in Egypt
Text C Running on Inequafity
Unit 4
Shopping Online
Text A Can a Small Retailer Compete Online with the Big Boys?
Text B Online Swindlers Shift Focus to Smaller Retailers
Text C In India, Online Retailers Take a New Tack
Unit 5
Literary Studies
Text A What''s Next for Literary Studies? Part 1
Text B What''s Next for Literary Studies? Part 2
Text C Ancient Heroes of the Arts
Unit 6
Marital Issues
Text A Unmarried Black Women: down or out
Text B A Long, Winding Road to Marriage Equality
Text C After the Royal Wedding: Why Kate and William''s Royal
Marriage will Last
Unit 7
Historical Retrospective
Text A Unification of Germany
Text B Civil War and Post-war Reconstruction
Text C Elizabeth I
Unit 8
Online Education
Text A Online Education May Transform Higher Education
Text B Mapping the Terrain of Online Education
Text C Online Education: The Future Ahead
Unit 9
The Men of the Day
Text A Tony Blair
Text B An Evening with Julian Barnes
Text C How Steve Jobs Changed?
Unit 10
World Unemployment
Text A World Economic and Employment Prospects
Text B 2012 Job Market Brightens, but Unemployment Won''t Fall
Fast
Text C The Unemployment Problem Is a Little Bit Structural
Key to the Exercises