Unit 1 1
PART A Speech Communities 1
PART BⅠ What's in a Name? 10
PART BⅡ Our Crazy Language 14
PART C Compound Words 18
Unit 2 22
PART A S.O.S 22
PART BⅠ Economic Might Versus Ecologic Right 32
PART BⅡ Preserving the Environment 37
PART C Words with Several Meanings 41
Unit 3 45
PART A University Days 45
PART BⅠ The Real Test 56
PART BⅡ The Bright Student and the Dull Student 62
PART C Reading for the Main Idea 66
Unit 4 69
PART A Space 69
PART BⅠ Toast at a state Dinner 79
PART BⅡ After Twenty Years 85
PART C Reading for the Implied Main Idea 90
Unit 5 93
PART A Thanksgiving 93
PART BⅠ Why I Want a Wife 101
PART BⅡ October and June 106
PART C The Organization of a Discourse 110
Unit 6 114
PART A Dreams 114
PART BⅠ How to Live Beautifully 122
PART BⅡ The Lost Gold Piece 127
PART C Transition Words(1) 132
Unit 7 135
PART A The Global Brain Drain 135
PART BⅠ The Mind and the Brain 144
PART BⅡ What is Intelligence,Anyway? 149
PART C Transition Words(2) 153
Unit 8 156
PART A The Capybara 156
PART BⅠ The Luncheon 164
PART BⅡ Getting Along Verbally and Nonverbally 173
PART C Transition Words(3) 177
Unit 9 180
PART A The Earth's Hidden Power Comes to the Surface 180
PART BⅠ Small Earthquake in Japan 189
PART BⅡ The Vanished City 194
PART C Finding Implications and Drawing Inferences 200
Unit 10 203
PART A Educational Attitudes 203
PART BⅠ Fires to be Kindled 213
PART BⅡ Why I Came to College 218
PART C Inferring the Author's Views and Attitudes 223
Vocabulary 226
Phrases 245