Reading Passage Risk Taking Paragraph A We run risks. Most of the time we ignore them; sometimes we stop and decide how to deal with them. That's life. Risks arise in sports, in pe...

Reading Passage‑Full Text The Origin of Mass Production Paragraph A Despite its obvious connection, mass production was not a corollary to the modern Industrial Revolution. Variou...

Reading Passage Mechanisms of Linguistic Change A The changes that have caused the most disagreement are those in pronunciation. We have various sources of evidence for the pronunc...

Elephant Communication A O'Connell‑Rodwell, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, has travelled to Namibia's first‑ever wildlife reserve to explore the mystical and compl...

Reading Passage： Jean Piaget 1896‑1980 Paragraph A Seymour Papert looks at the work of the pioneering Swiss philosopher and psychologist Jean Piaget. Piaget spent much of his pro...

Part3 Read the text and answer the questions below. Tuatara Paragraph A Tuatara are lizard‑like reptiles, found only in New Zealand. They are representative of ancient life forms...

Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. The Importance of Law Paragraph A The law influences all of us virtually all the time, it governs almost all aspects of our beha...

Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. The Fashion Industry Paragraph‑A The fashion industry is a multibillion‑dollar global enterprise devoted to the business of ma...

Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. Corporate Social Responsibility A In the 1980s, Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and the World Business Council fo...

  Part2 Read the text and answer the questions below. American Businesses Aim to Support Employees and Their Families A Companies of all sizes in the US recognize the importa...