Texts 1
Lesson One 1
Text A Half a Day 2
Text B The Edge 24
Lesson Two 27
Text A Going Home 28
Text B A Homecoming of a Different Sort 53
Lesson Three 55
Text A Message of the Land 56
Text B The Son from America 82
Lesson Four 87
Text A The Boy and the Bank Officer 88
Text B My Bank Account 112
Lesson Five 115
Text A Angels on a Pin 116
Text B We Should Cherish Our Children s Freedom to Think 142
Lesson Six 145
Text A The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street（Act Ⅰ） 146
Text B The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street（Act Ⅱ） 175
Lesson Seven 181
Text A Mandela s Garden 182
Text B Rite of Spring 203
Lesson Eight 207
Text A My Personal Manager 208
Text B And If Elected 233
Lesson Nine 239
Text A Against All Odds 240
Text B The Dark Gift 266
Lesson Ten 269
Text A The Green Banana 270
Text B A Secret Lost in the Water 293
Lesson Eleven 297
Text A The Midnight Visitor 298
Text B The Night the President Met the Burglar 321
Lesson Twelve 323
Text A The Kindness of Strangers 324
Text B In Chelsea, Back to Sleep 352
Lesson Thirteen 355
Text A Christmas Day in the Morning 356
Text B Swans Mate for Life 385
Lesson Fourteen 389
Text A After Twenty Years 390
Text B A Man Who Had No Eyes 415
Lesson Fifteen 419
Text A Touched by the Moon 420
Text B The Plea for Our Planet 446
Vocabulary List 449
Idiomatic Expressions and Collocations 458
Verb Patterns 469
Grammar Terms 471
Presupposed Vocabulary List 475