Unit 1 1
Text A My early home 1
Text B News inside 2
Text B The hunt 4
Unit 2 8
Text A My breaking in 8
Text B Liberty 11
Unit 3 15
Text A Units 15
Text B Standards of measurement 18
Unit 4 23
Text A Small things make big difference 23
Text B My experience in life 26
Unit 5 32
Text A Stories 32
Text B It wasn’t his fault! 37
Unit 6 41
Text A Disco with Dad 41
Text B My day as a 75-year old 44
Unit 7 47
Text A The American way：money 47
Text B The American national parks 50
Text A A letter from a dying mother 54
Unit 8 54
Text B Domestic fires claimed the lives of four children at the weekend 57
Unit 9 62
Text A Taxi!That’ll be just ￡2，700,plus tips 62
Text B Television ration box 65
Unit 10 69
Text A Advertisements 69
Text B Headway 74
Unit 11 77
Text A Introduction to some tourist attractions 77
Text B Cities 82
Text A A dream comes true 87
Unit 12 87
Text B Every day is filled with danger 90
Unit 13 94
Text A The aged and the baby 94
Text B Badminton Australia 98
Unit 14 102
Text A Trips by coach 102
Text B The automobile in American life 105
Unit 15 109
Text A Portraits 109
Text B Money and value 114
Unit 16 118
Text A Ships，stars and clocks 118
Text B Some new stories about animals 122
Unit 17 128
Text A Cow to birth rare gaur 128
Text B Dealing with learning differences 131
Unit 18 135
Text A Remembering March 5，2001 135
Text B My mother 139
Unit 19 143
Text A High on a cliff 143
Text B Is he sorted？ 146
Unit 20 150
Text A An ambitious boy 150
Text B Drivers’stories 154
Unit 21 159
Text A Strange stories about marriage 159
Text B Excuse me，is it day or night？ 163
Unit 22 167
Text A Two great women 167
Text B Your own personal Jesus 172
Unit 23 175
Text A How do you measure up？ 175
Text B A race to the South Pole 178
Unit 24 182
Text A Where to live and what to visit？ 182
Text B Eating 186
Text A English as a world language 190
Unit 25 190
Text B Education in Singapore 194
Unit 26 197
Text A Global warming will change the earth’s environment 197
Text B Reunion of seven continents 202
Unit 27 206
Text A Newsflash and weather forecast 206
Text A Some sea animals 216
Unit 28 216
Text B Humans，animals and diseases 221
Unit 29 228
Text A Work，labor，and play 228
Text B What makes a teacher？ 231
Unit 30 236
Text A Travellers’tales 236
Text B Leisure 239
Key to the exercises(练习答案) 243