Unit 1 Higher Education in the United States（美国高等教育） 1
Section A:Listening and Speaking:Greetings and Introduction 4
Section B:Text A:Higher Education in the United States 6
Section C:Exercises 10
Section D:Text B:American Colleges and Universities 15
Section E:Phonetics:The Consonants of English 19
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:Hand in Test Paper 22
Unit 2 Sports and Games（体育竞赛） 23
Section A:Listening and Speaking:Farewells and Thanks 26
Section B:Text A:The Olympic Games 28
Section C:Exercises 32
Section D:Text B:Sports and Games 37
Section E:Phonetics:The Vowels of English 40
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:Happy but Not Rich 43
Unit 3 Space Exploration（太空探索） 45
Section A:Listening and Speaking:Weather and Time 48
Section B:Text A:Walking in Space 50
Section C:Exercises 55
Section D:Text B:Black Holes 59
Section E:Phonetics:Review of Phonetics 63
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:Two Miracles 68
Unit 4 Climate（气候） 69
Section A:Listening and Speaking Shopping and Asking the Way 72
Section B:Text A:Climate 74
Section C:Exercises 77
Section D:Text B:Cloud 82
Section E:Grammar Focus:Noun 85
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:A Bad Impression 88
Unit 5 Letters（书信） 89
Section A:Listening and Speaking:Making Phone Calls and Making Appointments 92
Section B:Text A:A Letter from the United States 94
Section C:Exercises 98
Section D:Text B:A Letter to My Parents 102
Section E:Grammar Focus:Pronoun 105
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:Save Money 108
Test Paper 1 109
Unit 6 Modern Life（现代生活） 117
Section A:Listening and Speaking:Asking for Help and Making Suggestions 120
Section B:Text A:Sundays in New York 122
Section C:Exercises 126
Section D:Text B:Looking to the Future 130
Section E:Grammar Focus:Numeral 135
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:A Troublesome Child 138
Unit 7 Fables（寓言故事） 139
Section A:Listening and Speaking:Good Manners and Feeling Ill 142
Section B:Text A:The King of the Cats 144
Section C:Exercises 146
Section D:Text B:The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse 151
Section E:Grammar Focus:Article 154
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:How Much Is It? 158
Unit 8 True Friendship（纯真友谊） 159
Section A:Listening and Speaking:Job and School 162
Section B:Text A:The Gifts 164
Section C:Exercises 170
Section D:Text B:The Last Leaf 175
Section E:Grammar Focus:Preposition 179
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:A Soldier's Wonderful Idea 183
Unit 9 Albert Einstein（爱因斯坦） 185
Section A:Listening and Speaking Interview and Family 188
Section B:Text A:Albert Einstein（Ⅰ） 190
Section C:Exercises 194
Section D:Text B:Albert Einstein（Ⅱ） 199
Section E:Grammar Focus:Adjective 204
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:Money Isn't Everything 207
Unit 10 Natural Phenomena（自然现象） 209
Section A:Listening and Speaking:After a Lecture and at the Library 212
Section B:Text A:Hurricanes 215
Section C:Exercises 218
Section D:Text B:Volcanoes 223
Section E:Grammar Focus:Adverb 226
Section F:Easy English for Fast Reading:Engineers and Managers 229
Test Paper 2 230
Glossary 238