Unit 1 Campus Life 10
Section A Text A:Three Big Lessons Harvard Never Taught Me 12
Section B Reading Skills:Inferring Word Meanings 22
Text B:The Interview 23
Section C Text C:Save Money for College by My Own 28
Section D Writing Skills:Sentences with Different Grammatical Structures 34
Unit 2 Cultural Entertainment 38
Section A Text A:How do People Choose Names for Their Children? 40
Section B Reading Skills:Reading for the Key Idea in a Sentence 49
Text B:Martial Arts 50
Section C Text C:The End of British Pub Culture? 54
Section D Writing Skills:Coordination 59
Unit 3 Social Etiquette 62
Section A Text A:Appropriate Gift Etiquette 64
Section B Reading Skills:Reading for Stated Main Ideas in Paragraphs 71
Text B:Dining Customsin America 72
Section C Text C:Body Language Speaks Louder than Words 77
Section D Writing Skills:Subordination 81
Unit 4 Food Culture 84
Section A Text A:Dumplings Help Keep Culture and Community Alive 86
Section B Reading Skills:Reading for Implied Ideas in Paragraphs 94
Text B:As American as Chinese Food 95
Section C Text C:Pleasure and Process:A Recipe for Good Eating 100
Section C Writing Skills:Non-finite Verbs 107
Unit 5 Holidays and Customs 110
Section A Text A:China:Celebrations,Holidays,and Customs 112
Section B Reading Skills:Reading for Major Details 120
Text B:Superstition in Britain 121
Section C Text C:The Gift of Grr-Face 126
Section D Writing Skills:Agreement Between the Subject and the Predicate Verb 132
Unit 6 Sports and Leisure 136
Section A Text A:Helmet-wearing Cyclists are More Likely to be Knocked Down 138
Section B Reading Skills:Scanning 146
Text B:Triplets,7,Win a National Chess Title 147
Section C Text C:Harder than Winning Gold at the Olympics? 152
Section D Writing Skills:Emphasis 157
Unit 7 Famous People 162
Section A Text A:Henry Ford 164
Section B Reading Skills:Reading Between the Lines 172
Text B:My Loneliness 173
Section C Text C:A Boy's sensitivities—a Story of Mark Twain 177
Section D Writing Skills:Sentence Variety 183
Unit 8 The World of Animals 186
Section A Text A:Bears Like Honey,but not Bees! 188
Section B Reading Skills:Understanding Idiomatic Expressions 197
Text B:How do Birds Fly? 197
Section C Text C:Service Animals Help Humans Live Fuller Life 202
Section D Writing Skills:Common Errors to Avoid in Sentence Development 207
Answer Key 211