Unit One 1
Listening and Speaking 1
Comprehensive English 4
The Future of the Cities 8
Reading for Thorough Understanding 8
Large Cities 10
Fast Reading 10
Keep to the Left 11
Unit Two 11
Listening and Speaking 11
Comprehensive English 14
Housing 18
Reading for Thorough Understanding 18
Do you Know How He Did it? 20
Fast Reading 20
Unit Three 21
Listening and Speaking 21
Comprehensive English 24
Camping 28
Reading for Thorough Understanding 28
Let s Go Camping 30
Fast Reading 30
A Letter from the Camp 31
Unit Four 31
Listening and Speaking 31
Comprehensive English 34
Families in the Future 38
Reading for Thorough Understanding 38
The Problems of a Working Family 40
Fast Reading 40
When Mrs．Li Got a Cold 41
Unit Five 41
Listening and Speaking 41
Comprehensive English 44
Continuing Education 48
Reading for Thorough Understanding 48
Correspondence School 50
Fast Reading 50
A Sad Man 51
Unit Six 51
Listening and Speaking 51
Comprehensive English 54
Running 58
Reading for Thorough Understanding 58
Losing Weight 60
Fast Reading 60
I Have a Headache. 61
Unit Seven 61
Listening and Speaking 61
Comprehensive English 64
How Can I Get to the Post Office? 68
Reading for Thorough Understanding 68
A Day as a Tourist Guide 70
Fast Reading 70
I ll Take a Taxi. 71
Unit Eight(Revision) 71
Listening Exercises 71
Vocabulary Exercises 74
Grammar Exercises 75
Reading Exercises 77
To Tell Him What You Said 81
Unit Nine 81
Listening and Speaking 81
Comprehensive English 84
A“Babies”Class 88
Reading for Thorough Understanding 88
A Child Care Class 90
Fast Reading 90
Good Thinking 91
Unit Ten 91
Listening and Speaking 91
Comprehensive English 94
Tom Sawyer 98
Reading for Thorough Understanding 98
The Ugly Duckling 100
Fast Reading 100
A Number That s Different 101
Unit Eleven 101
Listening and Speaking 101
Comprehensive English 104
The History of Work 108
Reading for Thorough Understanding 108
What We Do 110
Fast Reading 110
Unit Twelve 111
Listening and Speaking 111
Comprehensive English 114
The Night of the Horse 118
Reading for Thorough Understanding 118
The Monkey King 120
Fast Reading 120
Not Only One Trouble 121
Unit Thirteen 121
Listening and Speaking 121
Comprehensive English 124
What Is Success? 128
Reading for Thorough Understanding 128
How to Comfort Those Who Are Sad? 130
Fast Reading 130
Easy Money 131
Unit Fourteen 131
Listening and Speaking 131
Comprehensive English 134
The Book with Nothing to Say 138
Reading for Thorough Understanding 138
Lucky Man 140
Fast Reading 140
Is it far from the House? 141
Unit Fifteen 141
Listening and Speaking 141
Comprehensive English 144
Churchill s Portrait 148
Reading for Thorough Understanding 148
Walt Disney:The Man Behind the Mouse 150
Fast Reading 150
Is Jim In? 151
Unit Sixteen(Revision) 151
Listening Exercises 151
Vocabulary Exercises 154
Grammar Exercises 155
Reading Exercises 157
Appedices 161
Communicative Functions 161
Grammatical Structures 162
Vocabulary 163