Unit 1 1
Text:Is There Life on Earth? 1
Study＆Practice 5
Reading Practice 11
Skill:Reading Attack Skill Ⅱ-Using Word Part Clues for Word Meanings 11
Passage:Fresh Air Will Kill You 13
Writing Practice 15
Skill:Coherence 15
Unit 2 16
Text:The Dinner Party 16
Study＆Practice 19
Reading Practice 25
Skill:Reading Attack Skill Ⅱ（Follow-up）-More Prefixes and Suffixes 25
Passage:An Important Lesson 26
Writing Practice 28
Skill:Combining Sentences with Coordinating and Adverbial Conjunctions 28
Unit 3 30
Text:Lessons from Jefferson 30
Study＆Practice 35
Reading Practice 41
Skill:Reviewing Work 41
Passage:The American Ideal of a Great Leader 41
Writing Practice 44
Skill:Developing a Paragraph from the Topic Sentencec 44
Unit 4 46
Text:My First Job 46
Study＆Practice 50
Reading Practice 57
Skill:Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅲ-Making Inferences While Reading 57
Passage:The Black Boy 57
Writing Practice 60
Skill:Subordinating Conjunctions 60
Unit 5 61
Text:The Professor and the Yo-Yo 61
Study＆Practice 66
Reading Practice 72
Skill:Reading Beyond the Lines 72
Passage:Alfred Nobel-A Man of Contrasts 73
Writing Practice 76
Skill:Rearranging the Sentences in Chronological Order 76
Unit 6 77
Text:The Making of a Surgeon 77
Study＆Practice 81
Reading Practice 87
Skill:Reading for Implied Meanings 87
Passage:A Doctor on Night-call 87
Writing Practice 89
Skill:Parallelism 89
Unit 7 91
Text:There's Only Luck 91
Study＆Practice 95
Reading Practice 101
Skill:Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅳ Drawing Conclusions While Reading 101
Passage:38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police 102
Writing Practice 105
Skill:Writing from Personal Experience 105
Unit 8 106
Text:Honesty:Is It Going out of Style? 106
Study＆Practice 111
Reading Practice 118
Skill:Review of Drawing Conclusions While Reading 118
Passage:A Question of Honour 119
Writing Practice 122
Skill:Transition Ⅰ 122
Unit 9 124
Text:What Is Intelligence,Anyway? 124
Study＆Practice 128
Reading Practice 134
Skill:Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅴ Understanding Figurative Language 134
Passage:Angels on a Pin 135
Writing Practice 138
Skill:Transition Ⅱ 138
Unit 10 140
Text:Profits of Praise 140
Study＆Practice 146
Reading Practice 153
Skill:A General Review 153
Passage:My Wonderful Lousy Poem 153
Writing Practice 156
Skill:Paragraph Development 156
Appendix Ⅰ Glossary 157
Appendix Ⅱ Test Yourself 178
Test Paper 1 178
Key to Test Paper 1 192
Test Paper 2 194
Key to Test Paper 2 207