Unit 1
Text A Learning a language 1
Reading Passage:Changes in the English language 3
Text B How to be a successful language learner? 6
Reading Passage:Language 9
Unit 2
Text A Deserts 12
Reading Passage:The Earth's spreading deserts 15
Text B San Francisco on fire 18
Reading Passage:Danger!Your home may be wired for death 22
Unit 3
Text A Going home 25
Reading Passage:The young and the old 31
Text B Home 33
Reading Passage:The workhorse of the family 37
Unit 4
Text A Freshman friendship 40
Reading Passage:How Americans view friendship 44
Text B Punctuality 46
Reading Passage:If only 49
Unit 5
Text A Stop smoking in public places 52
Reading Passage:The battle against AIDS 57
Text B Heart disease:treat or prevent? 60
Reading Passage:Will it matter if I skip breakfast 63
Unit 6
Text A Don't worry about failure 66
Reading Passage:Creativity—encouraging children to think(Ⅰ) 70
Text B Sail round the world 72
Reading Passage:Creativity—encouraging children to think(Ⅱ) 78
Unit 7
Text A Funny or not? 81
Reading Passage:The man who made you laugh 84
Text B How TV violence affects kids 86
Reading Passage:High technology in the house 90
Unit 8
Text A The centennial Olympic Games 92
Reading Passage:The Olympics 95
Text B Volunteers for Beijing's Olympics 97
Reading Passage:Racing 102
Unit 9
Text A The more you give,the happier you become 105
Reading Passage:Keep alive your sense of humor 108
Text B Profits of praise 110
Reading Passage:How to say sorry 117
Unit 10
Text A Mugging 120
Reading Passage:Victims of pickpockets 123
Text B There's only luck 125
Reading Passage:Face to face with guns 131
Unit 11
Text A Life and death 135
Reading Passage:A narrow escape 139
Text B A day's wait 141
Reading Passage:The road not taken 148
Grammar 150
Noun and Pronoun（名词和代词） 150
Article（冠词） 154
Adjective and Adverb（形容词和副词） 156
Preposition（介词） 160
Auxiliary verb（情态动词） 169
Non-finite Verb（非谓语动词） 172
Tense（时态） 178
Voice（语态） 184
Subjunctive Mood（虚拟语气） 189
Simple and Compound Sentence（简单句和并列句） 194
Exclamation,Imperative and Stress（感叹、祈使和强调句） 196
Subject-Verb Concord（主谓一致） 199
Complex Sentence（复合句） 204
Ellipsis and Inversion（省略与倒装） 215
Acknowledgements 224