Unit One 1
Text A:Peking University Address 1
Text B:Five Evidences of an Education 9
Phonetics:Prommciation--Fricatives 12
Grammar:The Subject--Verd Core 16
Unit Two 20
Text A:Versatile Man 20
Text B:Two Versatile Men:Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Philip Sidney 30
Phonetics:Promunciation--Plosives 33
Grammar:Predicate Verds and Frozen Verds 36
Unit Three 39
Text A:Do This and You ll Be Welcome Anywhere 39
Text B:Beautiful Smile and Love 48
Phonetics:Promunciation--Affiricates 51
Grammar:Verb Pattern(1):Linking Verb+Subjesct Complement(VC) 53
Unit Four 58
Text A:The Station 58
Text B:Gather Ye Rose-buds:Philosophies of Life 67
Phonetics:Pronunciation--Nasals 70
Grammar:Verb Pattern(2):Intransitive Verb(V) 72
Unit Five 74
Text A:Rites of Passage 74
Text B:Her Shadow 82
Phonetics:Pronunciation--Lateral 84
Grammar:Verb Pattern(3):Verb+Object(VO) 87
Text A:The Days When I Couldn t Speak(Ⅰ) 91
Unit Six 91
Text B:The Days When I Couldn t Speak(Ⅱ) 100
Phonetics:Pronunciation--Semi--Vowels 103
Grammar:Verb Pattern(4):Verb+Object+Complement(VOC) 105
Unit Seven 109
Text A:In and of Ourselves We Trust 109
Text B:A Traffic Light Is a Brainless Machine 117
Phonetics:Pronunciation--Frictionless Continunant 119
Grammar:Verb Pattern(5):Verb+Indirect Object+Direct Object(VOO) 121
Text A:As Some May One Day See 124
Unit Eight 124
Text B:A City without Green 132
Phonetics:Pronunciation--Consonant Clusters 135
Grammar:Subject-Verb Concord 138
Unit Nine 142
Text A:Human Life as a Poem 142
Text B:On How to Grow Old 151
Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Front Vowels 153
Grammar:Present Time 156
Unit Ten 160
Text A:Night Watch 160
Text B:The Dying Girl That No One Helped 169
Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Back Vowels 172
Grammar:Past Tense(1) 175
Unit Eleven 179
Text A: Mother Tongue 179
Text B: A Widely-used But Crazy Language 188
Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Central Vowels 190
Grammar:Past Tense(2) 192
Unit Twelve 197
Text A:American Space,Chinese Place 197
Text B:Travel With Charley 206
Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Closing Diphthongs(1) 209
Grammar:Past Tense(3) 212
Unit Thirteen 216
Text A:Why I Decided to Be a Writer 216
Text B:The Joys of Writing 224
Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Closing Diphthongs(2) 227
Grammar:Future Tense 229
Unit Forteen 233
Text A:New Lifestyles from Old Philosophies 233
Text B:Wisdom 242
Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Centring Diphthongs 244
Grammar:The Passive Voice 246
Glossary 250