Unit 1
Text：How to Improve Your Study Habits 1
Contents 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Study Practice 4
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Skill：BasicReading Skill Ⅰ--How toRead a Text 8
Reading Practice 8
Passage：Learning to Read-in College 9
Unit 9
Unit 10
Writing Practice 12
Skill：Combination Using Connectives 12
Text：Sailing Around the World 13
Study Practice 16
Passage：To Swim the English Channel at 58 20
Skill：How toRead a Text 20
Reading Practice 20
Skill：Reducing Clauses to Phrases or Words 23
Writing Practice 23
Text：The Present 24
Study Practice 28
Skill：Basic Reading Skill Ⅱ--Reading in Thought Groups 32
Reading Practice 32
Passage：The Young and the Old 33
Writing Practice 35
Skill：Subdrdination 35
Text：Turning off T.V：A Quiet Hour 36
Study Practice 39
Skill：Reading Attack Skill Ⅰ 45
--Using Context Clues for Word Meanings（Part Ⅰ） 45
Reading Practice 45
Passage：A New Toy 47
Skill：Contraction--Avoiding Redundancy 49
Writing Practice 49
Text：A Miserable，Merry Christmas 50
Study Practice 54
Skill：Reading Attack Skill Ⅰ--Using Context Clues for Word Meanings（Part Ⅱ） 59
Reading Practice 59
Passage：An English Christmas 60
Writing Practice 61
Review：Combination，Contfaction Subordination 61
Text：Sam Adams，Industrial Engineer 62
Study Practice 66
Reading Practice 70
Skill：Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅰ--Reading for the Main Idea 70
Passage：Dialogue 72
Passage：Epilogue 73
Skill：Combination--Subordinating Conjunction 74
Writing Practice 74
Text：The Sampler 75
Study Practice 79
Passage：The Lost Gold Piece 83
Skill：Reading for the Main Idea 83
Reading Practice 83
Writing Practice 85
Skill：Contraction--Ellipsis 85
Text：You Go Your Way，I’ll Go Mine 87
Study Practice 91
Reading Practice 96
Skill：Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅱ--Recognizing Important Facts or Details 96
Passage：Thank You，M’am 97
Writing Practice 100
Skill：Contraction--Expressing It More Briefly 100
Text：The Brain 101
Study practice 104
Reading Practice 108
Skill：Looking for the Topic Sentence 108
Passage：Perception 109
Writing Practice 111
Skill：Combination--Appositive 111
Text：Going Home 113
Study Practice 117
Skill：Reading for Full Understanding 122
Passage：The Hitchhiker 122
Reading Practice 122
Writing Practice 124
Skill：Combination--Absolute Construction 124
Appendix Ⅰ：Glossary 126
Appendix Ⅱ：Presupposed Word List 139
Appendix Ⅲ：Test Yourself 148
Test Paper 1（for Unit 1—Unit 5） 148
Key to Test Paper 1 159
Test Paper 2（for Unit 6—Unit 10） 160
Key to Test Paper 2 171