CONTENTS

Welcome to Q: Skills for Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv

What is IQ Online? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

UNIT 1 Sociology – What makes someone admirable? 2

Reading 1: We All Need a Role Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Reading Skill: Previewing and predicting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Reading 2: Everyday Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Work with the Video: Volunteer Hairdresser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Writing Skill: Organizing and developing an essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Critical Thinking Strategy: Ordering ideas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Grammar: Restrictive relative clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Unit Assignment: Write an analysis essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

UNIT 2 Behavioral Science – How do marketers get our attention? 32

Reading 1: Your Guide to Generation Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Reading Skill: Highlighting and annotating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Reading 2: This Is Why You're Addicted to Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Critical Thinking Strategy: Discussing ideas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Work with the Video: Predictive Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with nouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Writing Skill: Writing a descriptive essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Grammar: Definite and indefinite articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Unit Assignment: Write a descriptive essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

UNIT 3 Developmental Psychology – What important lessons do we learn as young people? 62

Reading 1: The Difference Between Fitting In and Belonging, and Why It Matters . . . . . . . . 64
Critical Thinking Strategy: Relating to the reading. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Reading Skill: Making inferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Reading 2: Life Lessons I Learned from My Dad in 23 Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Work with the Video: Robin Goodman on Children Who Want to Quit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Writing Skill: Writing a narrative essay and varying sentence patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Grammar: Past perfect and past perfect continuous. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Unit Assignment: Write a narrative essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

UNIT 4 Science and Technology – How can science improve lives? 92

Reading 1: Five Innovative Technologies That Bring Energy to the Developing World. . . . . 94
Critical Thinking Strategy: Categorizing information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Reading Skill: Understanding comparisons and contrasts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Reading 2: This Device Pulls Water Out of Desert Air. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Work with the Video: Inventions to Save the Planet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary to distinguish between homonyms. . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Writing Skill: Writing a compare and contrast essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Grammar: Subordinators and transitions to compare and contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Unit Assignment: Write a compare and contrast essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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 UNIT 5 Nutritional Science – Should science influence what we eat? 122
Reading 1: Eating Well: Less Science, More Common Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Reading Skill: Recognizing bias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Critical Thinking Strategy: Analyzing texts for cause and effect relationships. . . . . . . . . . . 132
Reading 2: A Personalized Nutrition Company Will Use Your DNA to Tell You What to Eat. . . . 133
Work with the Video: Vitamin Deficiencies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Vocabulary Skill: Cause and effect collocations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Writing Skill: Writing a cause and effect essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Grammar: Agents with the passive voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Unit Assignment: Write a cause and effect essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

UNIT 6 Education – Does school prepare you for work? 152

Reading 1: From Student to Employee: A Difficult Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Critical Thinking Strategy: Justifying your opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Reading Skill: Using an outline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Reading 2: Making My First Post-College Career Decision. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Work with the Video: College Graduate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Grammar: Reported speech with the present tense and shifting tenses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Writing Skill: Writing a summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Unit Assignment: Write a summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

UNIT 7 Geology – Is discovery always a good thing? 182

Reading 1: Ocean Discoveries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Reading Skill: Recognizing facts and opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Reading 2: Alaska’s Pebble Mine: Minerals vs. Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Work with the Video: The Wind Power Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Critical Thinking Strategy: Synthesizing information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Vocabulary Skill: Word roots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Writing Skill: Writing an opinion essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Grammar: Adverb phrases of reason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Unit Assignment: Write an opinion essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

UNIT 8 Engineering – Can failure lead to success? 212

Reading 1: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse and the Lessons Learned. . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Critical Thinking Strategy: Hypothesizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Reading Skill: Identifying counterarguments and refutations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Reading 2: How to Design a Student Project That Benefits the Developing World. . . . . . . 224
Work with the Video: Chernobyl Disaster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with prepositions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Writing Skill: Writing a persuasive essay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Grammar: Adverb clauses of concession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Unit Assignment: Write a persuasive essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244–245

Authors and Consultants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
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