Unit 1 How to Make Friends with Foreigners 1
Integrated Skills Development 1
Passage The American Way:Friendship 1
Reading for Appreciation 7
What Is OK and What Is Not? 7
Applied Writing 10
Letters of Thanks 10
Merry Learning 15
Unit 2 Language Study 16
Integrated Skills Development 16
Passage How to Be a Successful Language Learner? 16
Reading for Appreciation 21
How to Improve Your Study Habits 21
Applied Writing 24
Introduction Letters 24
Merry Learning 30
Unit 3 People and Environment 31
Integrated Sklls Development 31
Passage Job Hunting 31
Reading for Appreciation 36
Four Minutes that Get You Hired 36
Applied Writing 40
Application Letter 40
Merry Learning 46
Unit 4 Privacy and Patent 47
Integrated Skills Development 47
Passage What Is a Patent? 47
Reading for Appreciation 52
The Market Economy 52
Applied Writing 55
Complaint and Claim Letters 55
Merry Leaming 61
Unit 5 Practical Reading 62
Integrated Skills Development 62
Passage A Nation of Immigrants 62
Reading for Appreciation 67
Caught Between Two Cultures 67
Applied Writing 70
Tour Guide Speech 70
Merry Learning 76
Model Test 1 77
Unit 6 Public Speech 89
Integrated Skills Development 89
Passage How to Make a Speech 89
Reading for Appreciation 94
It's Good to Talk 94
Applied Writing 97
Farewell Speech 97
Merry Learning 103
Unit 7 Food and Health 104
Integrated Skills Development 104
Passage Dieting Your Way to Health 104
Reading for Appreciation 110
Fallacies(谬见,谬论)about Food 110
Applied Writing 113
Request for Leave 113
Merry Learning 119
Unit 8 Chinese Culture and Arts 120
Integrated Skills Development 120
Passage Chinese Opera Makeup 120
Reading for Appreciation 125
Tourism Resources 125
Applied Writing 129
Poster 129
Merry Learning 135
Unit 9 Business and Investment 136
Integrated Skills Development 136
Passage American Business Values and Attitudes 136
Reading for Appreciation 142
The Advertising Standards Authority:An Advertising Watchdog 142
Applied Writing 146
Memorandum of Understanding 146
Merry Learning 152
Unit 10 Work and Contract 153
Integrated Skills Development 153
Passage Why Men Have to Work 153
Reading for Appreciation 157
Consumer Rights 157
Applied Writing 159
Mark's Schedule 159
Merry Learning 164
Model Test 2 165
Vocabulary 177
Proper Nouns and Phrases 187