ContentsUnit OneText:Is There Life on Earth? 1
Study Practice 6
Reading PracticeSkill:Reading Attack Skill ⅡUsing Word Part Clues for Word Meanings 12
Passage:Fresh Air Will Kill You 13
Writing PracticeSkill:Coherence 16
UnitTwoText:The Dinner Party 17
Study Practice 21
Reading Practice 27
Skill:Reading Attack Skill Ⅱ(Follow-up)More Prefixes and Suffixes 27
Passage:An Important Lesson 28
Writing PracticeSkill:Combining Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs 30
Unit ThreeText:Lessons from Jefferson 32
Study Practice 38
Passage:The American Ideal of a Great Leader 44
Reading PracticeSkill:Reviewing Work 44
Writing PracticeSkill:Developing a Paragraph from the Topic Sentence 47
Unit FourText:My First Job 49
Study Practice 53
Reading PracticeSkill:Reading Comprehension Skill ⅢMaking Inferences While Reading 61
Passage:Black Boy 61
Writing PracticeSkill:Combining Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions or Relative Pro-nouns 65
Unit FiveText:The Professor and the Yo-Yo 66
Study Practice 72
Reading PracticeSkill:Reading Beyond the Lines 79
Passage:Alfred Nobel—A Man of Contrasts 79
Writing PracticeSkill:Rearranging Sentences in Logical Order 82
Test Yourself:Test Paper Ⅰ(for Unit 1—Unit 5) 83
Unit SixText:The Making ofa Surgeon 94
Study Practice 98
Reading PracticeSkill:Reading for Implied Meanings 104
Passage:A Doctor on Night-call 105
Writing PracticeSkill:Parallelism 107
Unit SevenText:There’s Only Luck 109
Study Practice 114
Reading PracticeSkill:Reading Comprehension Skill ⅣDrawing Conclusions While Reading 120
Passage:38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police 121
Writing PracticeSkill:Writing from Personal Experience 124
Unit EightText:Honesty:Is It Going out ofStyle? 126
Study Practice 132
Reading PracticeSkill:Review ofDrawing Conclusions While Reading 140
Passage:A Question ofHonor 140
Writing PracticeSkill:Transition Ⅰ 144
Unit NineText:What Is Intelligence,Anyway? 146
Study Practice 150
Reading PracticeSkill:Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅴ Understanding Figurative Language 157
Passage:Angels on a Pin 158
Writing PracticeSkill:Transition Ⅱ 161
UnitTenText:Profits ofPraise 163
Study Practice 169
Reading PracticeSkill:A General Review ofReading Skills 176
Passage:My Wonderful Lousy Poem 176
Writing PracticeSkill:Paragraph Development 180
Test Yourself:Test Paper Ⅱ(for Unit 6—Unit 10) 181
AppendixⅠ:Glossary 192
Appendix Ⅱ Key to Test PaperⅠ 226
Key to Test Paper Ⅱ 227