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Unit 1
Text A U.S.Researchers Win 2004Nobel Prize
Text B Prescription for Suicide?
Text C Was IBM Hazardous to Workers'Health?
Unit 2
Text A World's First Test-tube BAaby Ties Knot
Text B Of Mice and Menopause
Text C Sixty Years On,D-day Veterans Pass Torch into Hands of History
Unit 3
Text A At Least 340Die in Paraguay Supermarket Fire
Text B Munch's Iconic Scream Stolen in Noway Fire
Text C Father Rights Protester Exposes Palace Security
Unit 4
Text A At Least 7 Killed in Blast Outside Australian Embassy in Iakarta
Text B Hurricane Ivan Devastates Grenda
Text C Canada Looks for Ways to Fix Its Health Care System
Unit 5
Text A Judge,2 Others Killed at Atlanta Courthouse
Text B Gambling Sites ,This Is A Hold up
Text C Army Officer Survives 3,500Feet Fall After Parachute Fails to Ppen
Unit 6
Text A Russian Siege Ends in Bloodshed
Text B News Species Revealed:Tiny Cousins of Human
Text C Charlotte Wyatt Case:Baby Char lotte Should Not Be Resuscitated Again,Judge Rules
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 10
Key to the Exercises