Unit 1 1
Text A The shepherd and the lion 1
Text B The lion in love 5
Unit 2 9
Text A Two neighbours 9
Text B Jim and his physics teacher 13
Unit 3 18
Text A A new dictionary 18
Text B Saving paper 22
Text A 50 things to do before I die 27
Unit 4 27
Text B Books 31
Unit 5 35
Text A The English character 35
Text B The man who loved to fly 39
Unit 6 44
Text A The pleasures of reading 44
Text B Study into laughter 48
Unit 7 53
Text A Rooster 53
Text B Excuse me，please! 57
Text A Teleshopping 61
Unit 8 61
Text B A cry for help 65
Unit 9 70
Text A Love for strangers 70
Text B Man at his best 73
Unit 10 77
Text A Groundwater：the polluted resource 77
Text B Fashion rules 81
Unit 11 86
Text A Christmas 86
Text B Life of Norwegians 90
Text A The present from the king 95
Unit 12 95
Text B A great talker on the phone 98
Unit 13 102
Text A Neighborhood watch group 102
Text B A bank robbery 106
Unit 14 111
Text A A kind-hearted boy 111
Text B Animals 116
Unit 15 120
Text A A perfect lecture 120
Text B Magic words 123
Text A The wrong wedding dress 128
Unit 16 128
Text B A birthday present for fiancee 132
Unit 17 136
Text A Grimm’s Fairy Tales 136
Text B Mark Twain 140
Unit 18 145
Text A How America got its name 145
Text B A night on the hill 149
Unit 19 154
Text A A special Christmas gift 154
Text B The debt 157
Text A Who is a happy man？ 162
Unit 20 162
Text B A new kind of school 166
Unit 21 170
Text A Great inventions 170
Text B A“clever”monkey 173
Unit 22 178
Text A Give time to love 178
Text B I wish you enough 182
Unit 23 187
Text A A brother like that 187
Text B Even Muggles can learn 191
Unit 24 196
Text A The gift 196
Text B The little wave 200
Unit 25 204
Text A Father McKeever’s lesson 204
Text B That’s what friends do 208
Unit 26 213
Text A I knew you would come 213
Text B Sitting on your talent 218
Text A Jeremy’s egg 222
Unit 27 222
Text B Kurt Warner revisited 226
Unit 28 231
Text A Personal invitation to our Thailand trip 231
Text B Never lie to your mother 234
Unit 29 238
Text A Good guys can finish first 238
Text B Ping and the Emperor 242
Unit 30 247
Text A From Babylon to black-eyed peas 247
Text B Sainthood-a tribute to my mother 250
Key to the exercises(练习答案) 254