What AWoend2 Amazing Stories from Around the GlobeCONTENTS INTRODUCTION Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit Unit 9 Self-Test 1 Unit 10 Unit 11 Unit 12 Unit 13, Unit 14 Unit 15 Unit 16 Unit 17 Unit 18 SIKH RWNe Who Is the Most Important Person from History? What Are Fattening Rooms? Where Do People Celebrate Girls’ Day and Boy's Day? Why Is Marco Polo Famous? Who Reached the South Pole First? What Is the Royal Flying Doctor Service? How Did the Egyptians Make Mummies? Why Is Louis Pasteur Important? Who Is Nasreddin Hodja? Units 1-9 What Did the Ancient Mayans Believe In? How Do Koreans Celebrate a Wedding? Why Are Sumo Wrestlers So Fat? Who Is Stephen King? What Is the Story Behind the Bed? How Did the Spanish Conquer the Aztecs? Why Are the Williams Sisters Good at Tennis? Where Is Timbuktu? Where Do the Most Vegetarians Live? Self-Test 2 Units 10-18 APPENDICES Word List Map of the World Index to the Spelling and Punctuation Activities 15 23 30 37 44 52 59 66 70 78 85 92 99 106 14 122 130 137 4143, 146 148 iiiBEFORE YOU READ Answer these questions. 1. What do you think is the most important invention in history? 2. What do you think the machine in the picture does? 3. Were books always easy to make and to get? Why or why not?