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Unit One Hummingbirds： the "Flying Jewels" of the Americas
Unit Two True Love
Unit Three The United Nations
Unit Four X-Sports
Unit Five Touring in London
Unit Six National Parks
Unit Seven Are You Too Shy to Succeed?
Unit Eight British Public School
Unit Nine New Exercise Goal： 6o Minutes a Day
Unit Ten The Golden Gate Bridge
Unit Eleven Monkey Math
Unit Twelve Greener Diet
Unit Thirteen Behind the Closed Door
Unit Fourteen Mothers Day--the 2nd Sunday inMay
Unit Fifteen The Communication Style.ofAmefiqans
Unit sixteen How to Pick a Great Book
Unit Seventeen Pet Talk： Seer Farms Keeps Pets ，Temp.brarily for Owners inCrisis
Unit Eighteen The Rifle
Unit Nineteen Obesity in Children
Unit Twenty The Importance of Trade
Unit Twenty-one High School versus College Lif
UnitTwenty-two Money
Unit Twenty-three How Much Babies Know
Unit Twenty-four To Break Fashion Rules
Unit Twenty-five Internet Generation
Unit Twenty-six Getting Enough Sleep
Unit Twenty-seven Working at Home： Family-friendly?
Unit Twenty-eight The King of Rock and Roll
The research is an "important milestone，" says animal-math researcher CharlesGallistel of Rutgers University in Piscataway， N.J.， because it sheds light on howthe ability to do math developed. Monkeys arent the only nonhuman animals with math skills. Previousexperiments have shown that rats， pigeons， and other creatures also have some kindsof abilities to do rough calculations， says Gallistel. In fact， his research suggeststhat pigeons can even do a form of subtraction. Brannon says she wanted to come up with a math test that would work for bothadult humans and monkeys. Previous experiments were good at testing monkeys，but they didnt work as well for people. In one such experiment， for example， Harvard University researchers put somelemons behind a screen as a monkey watched. Then， as the monkey continued toobserve， they put a second group of lemons behind the screen. When the researcherslifted the screen， monkeys saw either the correct sum of the two groups of lemons oran incorrect sum. （To reveal incorrect sums， the researchers added lemons when themonkeys werent looking.） When the sum was incorrect， the monkeys seemed surprised： They staredlonger at the lemons， suggesting they were expecting a different answer. Anexperiment such as this is a good way to test toddlers math skills， but not the mosteffective way to measure such skills in adults.
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