Drrenence LEARNING teed WSS END Sharpens your reading comprehension and vocabulary skills © Reading texts deal with social and contemporary issues s Aridccormpunyinlg qudio CD records the reading texts ® Activities for pair work and oral|practice * Exercises for vocabulary building, comprehension andigrammar practice ° Answer Key provided x4n\) UNDERSTAND) Sharpens your reading comprehension and vocabulary skills Betty Kirkpatrick Rebecca Mok : Sf mm " PuBLISHING © 2005 Learners Publishing Pte Ltd First published 2005 by Learners Publishing Pte Ltd 222 Tagore Lane, #03-01 TG Building, Singapore 787603 All rights reserved No part of this book shall be reproduced, or transmitted by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher Email: leampub@leamers.com.sg Visit our website: http:/www.learners.com.sg Reprinted 2005, 2006, 2007 ISBN 978 981 4133 10 Printed by Fuisland Offset Printing (S) Pte Ltd om — Please remember that unauthorized photocopying of this book is illegal Associate Companies RIC Learners International Limited P.O Box 332, Greenwood WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6924 RIC Publications Limited (Asia) 5th floor, Gotanda Mikado Building 2-5-8 Hiratsuka, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo JAPAN 142-0051 Tel: 03-3788-9201 Fax: 03-3788-9202 Email: elt@ricpublications.com Website: www.ricpublications.com Contents uw PWNOo SD On fou tFWN = UNIT Preface iv Green Packaging Too Much Traffic Bullying 17 Growing Old 25 Parental Aspirations 33 Discrimination against Disability 42 Football Hooligans 50 Travel Troubles 58 New Research on Computer Games 66 Terrorism 74 Healthy Eating 83 Food Scares The Dangers of Passive Smoking 99 A Donor Shortage The Benefits of Chocolate ƯỊ 107 116 = READ AND UNDERSTAND Preface Read and Understand is a series of four workbooks written for secondary or intermediate students who want to improve their reading comprehension skills The social and upper-level interesting 15 reading texts in each of the two lower-level books deal with contemporary issues of interest to teenagers Each of the two books contains 20 reading passages covering a range of highly topics written in different text types Every unit begins with three or four Pre-Reading Questions to encourage students to think about issues related to the topic The questions are designed for students to work in pairs or small groups to develop their ability to make predictions and to understand information by drawing on their own knowledge and experience The Vocabulary Study section makes it convenient for students to look up the meanings of words and phrases highlighted in the reading passage The varied exercises in each workbook provide not only written work for students to individually, but also oral discussions to be done among themselves Workbooks and cover the following types of exercises: * * * * * Vocabulary Building — an essential tool to reading Read and Understand provides comprehension questions in True/False and MCQ formats, as well as open-ended questions to test students’ understanding of the passage Pair Work allows students to discuss the questions with each other orally before writing down the answers Spot the Error provides questions for students to revise their knowledge of grammar through sentence correction Your View has questions that stimulate students to think and express their opinion on matters related to the topic of the unit Students will hear all the reading passages on an audio CD that accompanies each workbook ; | é€ Green Packaging If a friend asked, "What has the environment to with us?" what would your answer be? What can you to be environmentally-friendly? Why is it sometimes difficult to be environmentally-friendly? Reading Bu|BD32Ðd Ue8I9 | Pre-Reading Questions Passage Now read the passage below You can look up the meanings of the words and phrases in bold in the Vocabulary Study section that follows Manufacturers are currently competing with each other to produce a form of green packaging Packaging is an impoitant part of marketing these days, but much of it is a threat to the environment There are two reasons for this The production of such packaging uses up a great deal of energy and the cartons, wrappers, etc are often difficult waste material People in most countries have become aware of the damage which modern living is doing to the environment, and many of them are eves to dispose of when they become for future generations Thus, both politicians and scientists are now looking at the issues of energy-saving and waste disposal with a view to making them more environmentally-friendly cece concerning themselves with the conservation of the environment As far as packaging is concerned, it is vital that it is either recyclable bì Zz