CONTENTS 1
Unit One 1
Text：Is There Life on Earth？ 1
Study Practice 7
Reading Activity 14
Skill：Reading Attack Skill Ⅰ Using Word Part Clues for Word Meanings 15
Passage：Fresh Air Will Kill You 16
Guided Writing 19
Part Ⅰ Skill：Coherence 19
PartⅡParagraph Writing 19
Text：The Dinner Party 21
Unit Two 21
Study Practice 25
Reading Activity 33
Skill：Reading Attack Skill Ⅱ（Follow-up） More Prefixes and Suffixes 33
Passage：An Important Lesson 34
Guided Writing 36
Part Ⅰ Skill：Combining Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions and 36
Conjunctive Adverbs 36
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing 37
Unit Three 38
Text：Lessons from Jefferson 38
Study Practice 44
Skill：（Reviewing Work） 53
Passage：The American Ideal of a Great Leader 53
Reading Activity 53
Guided Writing 58
Part Ⅰ Skill：Developing a Paragraph from the Topic Sentence 58
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing 58
Revision Exercises 1 59
Unit Four 64
Text：My First Job 64
Study Practice 69
Reading Activity 77
Skill：Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅲ Making Inferences While Reading 78
Passage：Black Boy 78
Relative Pronouns 83
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing 83
Part Ⅰ Skill：Combining Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions or 83
Guided Writing 83
Unit Five 84
Text：The Professor and the Yo-Yo 84
Study Practice 91
Reading Activity 99
Skill：Reading Beyond the Lines 99
Passage：Alfred Nobel—A Man of Contrasts 99
Guided Writing 103
Part Ⅰ Skill：Rearranging Sentences in Logical Order 103
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing 103
Test Yourself：Test Paper 1 104
Text：The Making of a Surgeon 117
Unit Six 117
Study Practice 122
Reading Activity 130
Skill：Reading for Implied Meanings 130
Passage：A Doctor on Night-call 130
Guided Writing 133
Part Ⅰ Skill：Parallelism 133
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing 134
Unit Seven 135
Text：There's Only Luck 135
Study Practice 140
Skill：Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅳ Drawing Conclusions While Reading 148
Reading Activity 148
Passage：38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police 149
Guided Writing 153
Paragraph Writing 153
Unit Eight 154
Text：Honesty：Is It Going out of Style？ 154
Study Practice 161
Reading Activity 171
Skill：Review of Drawing Conclusions While Reading 171
Passage：A Question of Honor 171
Guided Writing 176
Part Ⅰ Skill：Transition Ⅰ 176
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing 177
Revision Exercises 2 178
Text：What Is Intelligence，Anyway？ 183
Unit Nine 183
Study Practice 188
Reading Activity 196
Skill：Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅴ Understanding Figurative Language 196
Passage：Angels on a Pin 197
Guided Writing 201
Part Ⅰ Skill：Transition Ⅱ 201
Part ⅡParagraph Writing 202
Unit Ten 203
Text：Profits of Praise 203
Study Practice 210
Skill：A General Review of Reading Skills 219
Reading Activity 219
Passage：My Wonderful Lousy Poem 220
Guided Writing 224
Paragraph Writing 224
Test Yourself：Test Paper 2 225
Supplementary Readings in Popular Science 237
Appendix Ⅰ：Key to Revision Exercises 1 246
Key to Revision Exercises 2 248
AppendixⅡ：Key to Test Paper 1 251
Key to Test Paper 2 253
Appendix Ⅲ：Key to Exercises in Supplementary Readings 255
Appendix Ⅳ：Glossary 257