Unit Five Cultures 1
Reading Skills Word Skills(Ⅴ)---Word Analysis(Ⅲ) 1
Lesson Seventeen 3
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 3
Text A The Lost World of the Maya 4
Text B Maya Civilization 11
Lesson Eighteen 14
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 14
Text A The Story of the Bible 15
Text B The Story of Noah's Ark 23
Lesson Nineteen 24
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 24
Text A Yoga 26
Text B Yoga and Ayurveda:Children of the Vedic Teaching 32
Lesson Twenty 35
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 35
Text A Age of Pyramids 36
Text B Pyramids 41
Unit Six Human Civilization 45
Reading skills:Sentence Skills:Types of Difficulties(Ⅰ) 45
Lesson Twenty-one 47
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 47
Text A People of the Pleistocene Epoch in Eastern Asia 48
Text B Rituals in Primitive Religion 53
Lesson Twenty-two 56
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 56
Text A Food Preservation 57
Text B European Agrarian Society:Manorialism 61
Lesson Twenty-three 64
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 64
Text A The Transport Infrastructure:Canals and Roads 66
Text B The"Protestant Work Ethic" 70
Lesson Twenty-four 74
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 74
Text A A Brief History of the Internet 75
Text B On line Fraud 81
Unit Seven Political Systems 85
Reading Skills Sentence Skills---Types of Difficulties(Ⅱ) 85
Lesson Twenty-five 87
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 87
Text A The American Presidency 88
Text B Bureaucracy 95
Lesson Twenty-six 98
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 98
Text A Who Rules in America 99
Text B Characteristics of Federalism 104
Lesson Twenty-seven 107
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 107
Text A The Decline of Royal Power 109
Text B The War and the Royal Family 114
Lesson Twenty-eight 118
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 118
Text A The American Republican Party 119
Text B The Origins of Revolutionary Warfare 126
Unit Eight Famous Speeches 130
Reading Skills Sentence Skills---Types of Difficulties(Ⅲ) 130
Lesson Twenty-nine 132
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 132
Text A John F.Kennedy,Excerpt from"Address on Civil Rights" 133
Text B Inaugural Address of John F.Kennedy 139
Lesson Thirty 144
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 144
Text A Boutros Boutros-Ghali,"A Need for Full Awareness of Planet's Fragility 145
Text B A Speech on the Eleventh Global 2Biodiversity Forum 150
Lesson Thirty-one 155
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 155
Text A The Poet and the World 157
Text B Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert B 165
Lesson Thirty-two 169
Preliminary Vocabulary Test 169
Text A Noah Webster's Declaration of Linguistic Independence 170
Text B National Identity,Language,and Nationalism 177
References 182