Unit 1 1
Reading Skill:Word Formation:Prefix 1
Text Reading:Conversations with a Gorilla 8
Background 8
Vocabulary 8
Text 9
Notes 11
Practice 11
Translation 16
Key 17
A Joke 19
Unit 2 20
Reading Skill:Word Formation:Suffix 20
Text Reading:Bricklayer's Boy 24
Background 24
Vocabulary 25
Text 25
Notes 28
Practice 28
Translation 33
Key 35
A poem 37
Unit 3 40
Reading Skill:Word Formation:Stems 40
Text Reading:Denmark Inherits the Wind 45
Background 45
Vocabulary 45
Text 46
Notes 47
Practice 48
Translation 52
Key 53
Unit 4 55
Reading Skill:Restatement,Untrue Statement and Inference(Part Ⅰ) 55
Text Reading:Was There a Golden Age? 60
Background 60
Vocabulary 60
Text 61
Notes 63
Practice 64
Translation 68
Key 70
Quotations 71
Unit 5 73
Reading Skill:Restatement,Untrue Statement and Inference(Part Ⅱ) 73
Text Reading:The Art of Making a Serious Conversation 78
Background 78
Vocabulary 79
Text 79
Notes 81
Practice 81
Translation 86
Key 87
Jokes 90
Unit 6 92
Reading Skill:Prediction 92
Text Reading:The Midnight Visitor 95
Background 95
Vocabulary 95
Text 96
Notes 100
Practice 100
Translation 104
Key 106
A poem 107
Unit 7 109
Reading Skill:Skimming 109
Text Reading:Another Reason to Be Nice:It'll Get You Far on the Job 112
Background 112
Vocabulary 112
Text 113
Notes 115
Practice 116
Translation 119
Key 120
Idioms 122
Unit 8 123
Reading Skill:Scanning 123
Text Reading:Elizabeth I 127
Background 127
Vocabulary 128
Text 128
Notes 130
Practice 131
Translation 136
Key 137
Important Events in American History 139
Unit 9 141
Reading Skill:Outlining 141
Text Reading:Managing the Rainforests 145
Background 145
Vocabulary 146
Text 147
Notes 148
Practice 149
Translation 152
Key 153
Quotations 156
Unit 10 157
Reading Skill:A Review 157
Text Reading:Two Ways of Looking at Life 158
Background 158
Vocabulary 158
Text 159
Notes 162
Practice 162
Translation 165
Key 167
Supplementary Reading 168
Integrated Tests 171
Key to Integrated Tests 196