Unit One Friendship 1
Get Started 1
Listen and Respond 2
Read and Explore 3
Text A What Is Friendship? 3
Text B After Twenty Years 11
Optional Classroom Activities 20
Enhance Your Language Awareness 20
Unit Two Love 31
Get Started 31
Listen and Respond 32
Read and Explore 33
Text A How Deep Is Your Love? 33
Text B Holding Hands 42
Optional Classroom Activities 49
Enhance Your Language Awareness 50
Unit Three Happiness 63
Get Started 63
Listen and Respond 64
Read and Explore 65
Text A The Pursuit of Happiness for the Common Good 65
Text B Material Things and Happiness 76
Optional Classroom Activities 83
Enhance Your Language Awareness 83
Unit Four Health 95
Get Started 95
Listen and Respond 96
Read and Explore 97
Text A How to Grow Old 97
Text B A Whisper of AIDS 106
Optional Classroom Activities 114
Enhance Your Language Awareness 115
Practice Test Ⅰ(Units 1-4) 125
Unit Five Education 143
Get Started 143
Listen and Respond 144
Read and Explore 145
Text A Education in Cyberspace 145
Text B The Four Pillars of Education in the Twenty-First Century 155
Optional Classroom Activities 163
Enhance Your Language Awareness 164
Unit Six Intercultural Communication 175
Get Started 175
Listenand Respond 176
Read and Explore 177
Text A Culture Shock 177
Text B Rich Met My Mother 187
Optional Classroom Activities 195
Enhance Your Language Awareness 196
Unit Seven The Olympic Spirit 207
Get Started 207
Listen and Respond 208
Read and Explore 209
Text A What Makes Olympic Champions? 209
Text B Tokens of the Olympic Ideal 220
Optional Classroom Activities 228
Enhance Your Language Awareness 229
Unit Eight Man and Society 239
Get Started 239
Listen and Respond 240
Read and Explore 241
Text A Competition and Cooperation 241
Text B Standards of Conduct 252
Optional Classroom Activities 258
Enhance Your Language Awareness 259
Practice Test Ⅱ(Units 5-8) 270
Appendix Ⅰ Scripts and Key to Practice Test Ⅰ 286
Appendix Ⅱ Scripts and Key to Practice Test Ⅱ 292
Appendix Ⅲ Glossary 298