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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Academic achievement
- 3 Early human development
- 4 The environment today
- 5 Statistics without tears
- 6 Human activity＆climate change
- 7 The global village
- 8 The new linguistic order
- Texts
- 1 Introduction
- Text 1-1: Economics focus: On the move
- 2 Academic achievement
- Text 2-1: The influence of class size on academic achievement
- Text 2-2: A case study: Shining star
- Text 2-3: The Asian paradox: Huge classes, high scores
- 3 Text 3-1:Interaction between nature and nurture
- Text 3-2:Capacities of the newborn
- Text 3-3:Hearing taste and smell
- 4 The environment today
- Acid rain in Norway
- skylarks in secline
- 5 Statistics without tears
- Text 5-1: Making sense of experience
- Text 5-2: What is statistics?
- Text 5-3: Descriptive and inferential statistics
- 6
- Text 6-1:Extra-textual information
- Text 6-2:Common questions about climate change
- Text 6-3:Are human activities contributing to climate change?
- Text 6-4:What human activities are contributing to climate change
- 7 The global village
- Text 7-1:
- Text 7-2:
- Text 7-3:
- Text 7-4:
- Text 7-5:
- Text 7-6:
- The new linguistic order
- Text 8-1: The new linguistic order
- Vocabulary and Complementary Exercises
- Keys to Complementary Exercises
