Unit One 1
Part A:Reading Skills—Detecting Topic Sentences 1
Reading Selection One:What is REM Sleep? 4
Reading Selection Two:Remembering and Forgetting 8
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 12
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 18
Introduction to Narrative Writing: 18
Part D:From Reading to Writing 21
Learning by Doing 21
Unit Two 24
Part A:Reading Skills—Working with Enumeration 24
Reading Selection One:The Long and Short of It 27
Reading Selection Two:How Computers Are Changing Our World 32
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 37
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 43
Narrowing a Subject to Shape a Thesis 43
Part D:From Reading to Writing 45
Why do We Wear Clothes? 45
Unit Three 48
Part A:Reading Skills—Reading Passages of Comparison and Contrast 48
Reading Selection One:Johnny Reb and Billy Yank 53
Reading Selection Two:Open Education 57
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 62
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 67
Topic Sentences and Supporting Sentences 67
Part D:From Reading to Writing 70
Alfred Nobel—A Man of Contrasts 70
Unit Four 73
Part A:Reading Skills—Tracing Cause and Effect 73
Reading Selection One:Ability to Learn 77
Reading Selection Two:Energy and Building Design 80
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 86
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 92
Sentence Combination 92
Part D:From Reading to Writing 97
Historic Drop in Crime 97
Unit Five 100
Part A:Reading Skills—Exemplification 100
Reading Selection One:Museums in the Modern World 104
Reading Selection Two:Soundless Communication 110
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 115
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 121
Sentence Variety(Ⅰ): 121
Part D:From Reading to Writing 123
CEO Quits to Pursue UFOs 124
Unit Six 127
Part A:Reading Skills—Understanding Definitions and Classifications 127
Reading Selection One:Why do We Do Anything? 131
Reading Selection Two:Historical Time and Stages of Life 135
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 141
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 146
Sentence Variety(Ⅱ): 146
Part D:From Reading to Writing 150
Newspapers in Britain 151
Unit Seven 154
Part A:Reading Skills—Reading Movie Scripts and Plays 154
Reading Selection One:Titanic 157
Reading Selection Two:A Question of Ethics 162
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 171
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 176
Expletive Constructions:“There be”and“it be”: 176
Part D:From Reading to Writing 178
Patients Needed 178
Unit Eight 181
Part A:Reading Skills—Recognizing Word Chains and Omission 181
Reading Selection One:The Big Wind 184
Reading Selection Two:Someone May Be Watching You 189
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 194
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 200
Sentence Expansion 201
Part D:From Reading to Writing 203
Information Gap 204
Unit Nine 206
Part A:Reading Skills—Working with Argumentative Writings(Ⅰ) 206
Reading Selection One:To Smoke or Not to Smoke? 209
Reading Selection Two:The Space Program:Is It Worth It? 213
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 219
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 223
Coherence(Ⅰ): 223
Part D:From Reading to Writing 227
A Discussion 227
Unit Ten 231
Part A:Reading Skills—Working with Argumentative Writings(Ⅱ) 231
Reading Selection One:Should Women Return to Their Kitchen? 235
Reading Selection Two:Flats versus Houses 239
Part B:Vocabulary Skills 244
Part C:Guided Writing and Translation 248
Coherence(Ⅱ): 248
Part D:From Readingto Writing 252
“Books,Plays and Films Should Be Censored” 253