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