Unit 1 Growing Up 1
Part I Pre-reading Task 2
PartⅡ Text A Writing for Myself 2
PartⅢ Text Summer Reading 20
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 27
Writing Strategy: How to writ a narrative (1) 28
Unit 2 Friendship 31
Part I Pre-reading Task 32
PartⅡ Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter 32
PartⅢ Text B Never Let a Friend Down 50
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 57
Writing Strategy: How to writ a personal letter (1) 58
Unit 3 Understanding Science 61
Understanding Science 62
Part I Pre-reading Task 62
Part II Text A Pubic Attitudes toward Science 62
PartⅢ Text B How to Make Sense Out of Science 80
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 86
Writing Strategy: How to writ an expository essay (1) 87
Unit 4 American Dream 89
Part I Pre-reading Task 90
PartⅡ Text A Tony Trivisonno's American Dream 90
PartⅢ Text B Ben Carson: Man of Miracles 108
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 116
Writing Strategy: How to writ a personal description (1) 117
Test Yourself: (Units 1-4) 119
Unit 5 Romance 135
Part I Pre-reading Task 136
PartⅡ Text A Valentine Story 136
PartⅢ Text B The wallet 154
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 161
Writing Strategy: How to writ a narrative (2) 162
Unit 6 Animal Intelligence 165
Part I Pre-reading Task 166
PartⅡ Text A What Animals Really Think 166
PartⅢ Text B Do Animals Fall in Love? 185
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 192
Writing Strategy: Learn to use examples in essay writing 193
Unit 7 Emergency 195
Part I Pre-reading Task 196
PartⅡ Text A "Kids on the Track!" 196
PartⅢ Text B The Night the River Came In 214
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 222
Writing Strategy: Writing in time sequence 223
Unit 8 Coping with an Educational Problem 225
Part I Pre-reading Task 226
PartⅡ Text A Fable of the Lazy Teenager 226
PartⅢ Text B Ditch the Calculator 244
PartⅣ Theme-related Language Learning Tasks 251
Writing Strategy: Using cause and effect in essay writing (1) 252
Test Yourself : ( Units 5-8 ) 255
Appendix I Key to Exercises In Parts, Ⅲ, Ⅳ 271
AppendixⅡ Tapescripts and Key to Test Papers 297
AppendixⅢ Affixation 311
AppendixⅣ Presupposed Word List 321
Appendix V Glossary 343