Passage 1 The Dictionary 1
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Passage 2 The Different Ways of Reading 4
Unit 4
Unit 5
Passage 3 How Do Inventions Affect People's Life? 6
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Passage 4 Agatha Christie 9
Unit 9
Unit 10
Unit 11
Unit 12
Unit 13
Passage 1 Pets in Canada 13
Unit 14
Unit 15
Passage 2 Why Do I Like Pisa 16
Unit 16
Unit 17
Unit 18
Passage 3 Motor Homes 18
Passage 4 An Expensive Telephone Call 21
Passage 1 Mother's Love 25
Passage 2 The History of Photography 28
Passage 3 A Learned Man 30
Passage 4 Serious Traffic 33
Passage 1 A Clever Dog 36
Passage 2 I Worked for the Thief Last Month 39
Passage 3 That's His Bowl 42
Passage 4 American Music 45
Passage 1 In Space 48
Passage 2 The Woman and the Doctor 50
Passage 3 It Isn't Our House 53
Passage 4 A Star—Yao Ming 56
Passage 1 Good or Bad 59
Passage 2 An Accident 61
Passage 3 A Kind Person 63
Passage 4 Students Also Businessmen 66
Passage 1 Children and the Internet 69
Passage 2 The Modern City—New York 72
Passage 3 Long March Exhibit 75
Passage 4 How to Tell the Weather 77
Passage 1 Two Friends 80
Passage 2 Baseball in America 83
Passage 3 Waves 86
Passage 4 Quicksand 89
Passage 1 Travel 92
Passage 2 Today's Life 95
Passage 3 One Can Change His Ideas When He Is Old 97
Passage 4 The Big Oven 99
Passage 1 How Can He Be Quiet? 102
Passage 2 Different Memory 105
Passage 3 Thought It Something Else 108
Passage 4 A Forgetful Couple 111
Passage 1 A Good Lateness 114
Passage 2 A Raindrop 116
Passage 3 A Special Person on Computer 119
Passage 4 Men's Best Friends 121
Passage 1 The Origin of the Chinese New Year 125
Passage 2 A Widely Used Language 127
Passage 3 The Expensive Present 130
Passage 4 One of the Most Surprising Plants 133
Passage 1 The Internet 136
Passage 2 Sports of Balls 139
Passage 3 New Rules and Behavior Standards for Middle School 141
Passage 4 September 11 and My Turn 144
Passage 1 Cities Are Different from Country to Country 147
Passage 2 Why the Water Is Dirty in Lake Ponkapog 149
Passage 3 A Watchman—Frank 151
Passage 4 Iraqi Children during the War 154
Passage 1 AnAccident 157
Passage 2 Happiness Is for Everyone 160
Passage 3 The Three Tortoises 164
Passage 4 The Dramatic Beauty 168
Passage 1 The Missing Dollar 171
Passage 2 Get Home in the Doctor's Car 174
Passage 3 English 177
Passage 4 A Vision Phone 180
Passage 1 An Excellent Woman 183
Passage 2 False Money and False Tooth 186
Passage 3 The Popular Food 190
Passage 4 Careful and Careless 193
Passage 1 So Will Mr. Shaw 196
Passage 2 Saving Paper 199
Passage 3 A New Yorker 202
Passage 4 A Library 205