Reading Task 01
1 Foods That Make You Smart
2 Are Cockroaches Really Dirty?

Reading Task 02
1 The Worst Jobs in History
2 The Simpsons

Reading Task 03
1 America’s Most Unusual Restaurant
2 Homes of the Future

Reading Task 04
1 The Bed That Hovers in the Air
2 The First Fully Retractable Umbrella

Reading Task 05
1 Hip-Hop Won’t Stop
2 Sun Records and the Birth of Rock and Roll

Reading Task 06
1 Silly Superstition?
2 Narcissism: Extreme Self-Love

Reading Task 07
1 William Carey
2 Charles Goodyear

Reading Task 08
1 Humans Hibernating Like Bears
2 Communicating Luggage Tags

Reading Task 09
1 The Piltdown Man
2 Were Vikings Really History’s Bad Boys?

Reading Task 10
1 Starbucks: Leading by Example
2 The Aussie Tourism Ad Banned in Britain

Reading Task 11
1 Chocolate May Power Cars in the Future
2 The Kyoto Protocol

Reading Task 12
1 A High Social IQ
2 Positive Feedback May Backfire

Reading Task 13
1 The New and Improved Ronald McDonald
2 What Are Sexy Ads Really Trying to Sell Us?

Reading Task 14
1 Types of Interpersonal Distance
2 A Second Language Changes Personality

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