Unit One 1
Dialogue：Who Is Your Idol 1
Text A：Bill Gates 3
Grammar：The Subjective Clause 7
Text B：Madam Curie and Radium 13
Unit Two 15
Dialogue：Do You get on Well with Your Roommates? 15
Text A：Joys and Sorrows of an Exchange Student 18
Grammar：The Predicative Clause 23
The Future Progressive Tense 23
Text B：Americans Are Humourous 29
I ll Be Groduating Fairly Soon 30
Unit Three 32
Dialogue：At the Tailor s Shop 32
Text A：The Million-Pound Bank Note 36
Grammar：The Subjunctive Mood(I) 39
Text B：The Million-Pound Bank Note 47
Test Paper One 50
Unit Four 57
Dialogue：Happy and Meaningful Life 57
Text A：China s Hybrid Rice 59
Grammar：The Subjunctive Mood(II) 64
Text B：The Business of Ostriches 72
Unit Five 75
Dialogue：Making an Appointment with the President of the College 75
Text A：Rip Van Winkle 77
Grammar：The Appositive 81
Text B：Ted Jordan s Never-to-be-forgotten Evening 87
Unit Six 89
Dialogue：Helping a Stranger 89
Text A：Friendliness Comes First 92
Grammar：Subject-Verb Agreement 96
Text B：Self-confidence Through Independence 103
Test Paper Two 105
Unit Seven 109
Dialogue：Visiting Historic Buildings in London 109
Text A：The New British Library 112
Grammar：Independent Element 115
Text B：The Pentagon 120
Unit Eight 122
Dialogue：Today China Becomes a Formal WTO Member 122
Text A：China-A New Member of the Library 125
Grammar：Inversion 129
Text B：NCB in INTERPOL 135
Unit Nine 138
Dialogue：Lift or Elevator? 138
Text A：Why Was the Mouse Offended? 140
Grammar：The Elliptical Sentence 144
Text B：Advice from a Caterpillar 152
Test Paper Three 155
Dialogue：Why Cannot One Live on the Moon? 159
Unit Ten 159
Text A：Stars 161
Grammar：Sentence Transformation 165
Text B：The Milky Way and the Solar System 171
Unit Eleven 174
Dialogue：Religions 174
Text A：Noah s Ark 176
Grammar：The Sequence of Tenses 180
Text B：Folklore, Myth and Superstition 186
Unit Twelve 188
Dialogue：At the Doctor s Office 188
Text A：Sunlight, Ventilation and Health 190
Grammar：Word Formation 194
Text B：Hospital and Drugs 200
Test Paper Four 202
Grammatical Structures 207
Vocabulary 208