Unit One 1
Section A Reading Activities 1
Text A The Truth About College Teachers 1
Text B Cloning 14
Section B Listening and Speaking 18
Section C Grammar Items：动词的时态 19
Section D Practical Writing：段落的统一性和连贯性 25
Unit Two 29
Section A Reading Activities 29
Text A The Four Marks of Leadership 29
Text B There's Only Lucks 38
Section B Listening and Speaking 42
Section C Grammar Items：语态 45
Section D Practical Writing：简历 49
Unit Three 52
Section A Reading Activities 52
Text A Space Effort 52
Text B Law and Order 59
Section B Listening and Speaking 64
Section C Grammar Items：词类和句子成分 66
Section D Practical Writing：段落结构、主题句 68
Unit Four 73
Section A Reading Activities 73
Text A The Gratitude We Need 73
Text B Firearms and Gun Controls 81
Section B Listening and Speaking 86
Section C Grammar Items：句子类型与基本句型 88
Section D Practical Writing：扩展句、结尾句 91
Unit Five 97
Section A Reading Activities 97
Text A So What's So Bad About Being So-So？ 97
Text B Shopping in the United States 106
Section B Listening and Speaking 110
Section C Grammar Items：名词性从句 112
Section D Practical Writing：应试作文 116
Unit Six 124
Section A Reading Activities 124
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.:America Seen with European Eyes 124
Text B Merchants of Death 135
Section B Listening and Speaking 143
Section C Grammar Items：分词 145
Section D Practical Writing：邀请信 150
Unit Seven 155
Section A Reading Activities 155
Text A Scientists Try to Find out What's So Funny about Humour 155
Text B The Innocent Eye 161
Section B Listening and Speaking 168
Section C Grammar Items：形容词性从句 171
Section D Practical Writing：电子邮件与传真 174
Unit Eight 184
Section A Reading Activities 184
Text A The Earth Day 184
Text B Mountaineering 189
Section B Listening and Speaking 192
Section C Grammar Items：动词不定式 195
Section D Practical Writing：合同 199
Unit Nine 205
Section A Reading Activities 205
Text A US Presidents and Chinese Chopsticks 205
Text B Sam Adams,Industrial Engineer 208
Section B Listening and Speaking 213
Section C Grammar Items：虚拟语气 215
Section D Practical Writing：申请信 221
Unit Ten 226
Section A Reading Activities 226
Text A Unjust Desserts 226
Text B Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact with the Earth in 2 880? 230
Section B Listening and Speaking 236
Section C Grammar Items：副词性从句 239
Section D Practical Writing：四、六级作文 243
Unit Eleven 248
Section A Reading Activities 248
Text A The Computer Virus 248
Text B Sleep:Your Body's Means of Rejuvenation 252
Section B Listening and Speaking 256
Section C Grammar Items：动名词 258
Section D Practical Writing：便条 261