FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
READING 3
(Selected and compiled)
For internal use only
2023
Unit
Page
UNIT 1: SOCIOLOGY
1-10
(UNIT QUESTION: What makes someone admirable?)
Reading 1: We All Need a Role Model
3
Reading skill: Previewing and predicting
3
UNIT 2: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
11-20
(UNIT QUESTION: How do marketers get our attention?)
Reading 1: Your Guide to Generation Z: The Frugal, Brand-Wary,
Determined Anti-Millennials
13
Reading skill: Highlighting and annotating
UNIT 3: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(UNIT QUESTION: What important lessons do we learn as young
people?)
Reading 1: The Difference Between Fitting in and Belonging and Why
It Matters
Reading skill: Making inferences
19
21-31
23
30
UNIT 4: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
34-41
(UNIT QUESTION: How can science improve lives?)
Reading 1: Five Innovative Technologies That Bring Energy to the
Developing World
29
Reading skill: Understanding comparisons and contrasts
34
UNIT 5: EDUCATION
42-53
(UNIT QUESTION: What is the value of learning a new language?)
Reading 1: How Learning a New Language Improves Tolerance
44
Reading skill: Distinguishing main ideas from details
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51
UNIT 6: BUSINESS
54-63
(UNIT QUESTION: How is work changing)
Reading 1: Who Wins in the Gig Economy, and Who Loses?
56
Reading skill: Identifying contrasting ideas
62
UNIT 7: MEDIA STUDIES
64-74
(UNIT QUESTION: How well does a picture illustrate the truth?)
Reading 1: Infographics Lie: Here’s How
66
Reading skill: Previewing a text (cont)
66
UNIT 8: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
75-85
(UNIT QUESTION: Why is global cooperation important?)
Reading 1: In Norway, Global Seed Vault Guards Genetic Resources
77
Reading skill: Making inferences (cont)
REFERENCES
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UNIT 1
SOCIOLOGY
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3
4
5
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6
7
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10
UNIT 2
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
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12
13
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15
16
17
18
19
20
UNIT 3
DEVELOPMENTAL
PSYCHOLOGY
21
22
23
The Difference between Fitting in and
Belonging, and Why It Matters
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
UNIT 4
SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY
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34
35
36
37
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39
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41
UNIT 5
EDUCATION
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UNIT QUESTION
What is the value of learning
a new language?
Discuss these questions with your classmates.
1. Which languages can you speak? How and why did
you learn them?
2. Do you think that learning languages has changed
any of your ideas or opinions?
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44
How Learning a New Language
Improves Tolerance
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49
50
51
52
53
UNIT 6
BUSINESS
54
55
56
Who Wins in the Gig Economy,
and Who Loses?
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58
expertise
on the margins
take advantage of
job security
benefits
automated
wage
the other end of the
spectrum
discrimination
labor
substitute
gig
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4. Retail and service workers have more control over their work in the gig economy than in
traditional jobs.
_____________________________________________________________
5. People who live on the margins of society benefit from the gig economy.
_____________________________________________________________
6. Corporate workers have less job security today.
_____________________________________________________________
F. INTERPRET Answer the questions. Use examples from the reading.
1. The author uses the words work and job with different meanings. What is the difference between a
good job and good work?
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
2. "Winners and losers are determined by the type of worker you are-or can become." What is the
author implying in the words "or can become"?
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
3. Does the author suggest that the gig economy will provide workers who now have "bad jobs" with
"good jobs"? Explain your answer."
_____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
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UNIT 7
MEDIA STUDIES
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66
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distort (bóp méo)
prominent (nổi bật)
scale
campaign
visualize
skyrocked (tăng)
Take
with a rain of salt
manipulate
error-prone (dễ mắc lỗi)
misleading
transformations
unprecedented
(chưa từng có tiền
lệ trc đây)
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That KY has as very
large number of smokers
and that UT has very few
smokers
27% of people from KY
smoke, and 23% of people
from UT smoke
That the number of
fraudulent data
visualization is stable/
skyrocketing
There was an increase
of 20 fraudulent data
visualizations from 2016
to 2018
Percentage of
people who enjoy
baseballl per ethnic
group
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5
7
10
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This infographic only shows data for two years, 2013 and 2018.
It does not show how many visitors there were in-between
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The units for the “Other Brands” bar are sad faces, indicating a bias.
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UNIT 8
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
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76
77
78
79
80
81
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REFERENCES
Caplan, N.& Douglas, S.(2019).Q: Skills for success level 5: Reading
and writing with iQ online practice, (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
Daise, D. & Norloff, C.(2019). Q: Skills for success level 4: Reading and
writing with iQ online practice, (3rd, ed.). Oxford University Press.
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