Unit1 3
Warm-up Activities 3
Text A Your First Night at School 4
Text B Never Too Old to Live Your Dream 14
Grammar：Parts of Speech 18
Cultural Focus Confucius：The Sage of Sages 22
Unit 2 25
Warm-up Activities 25
Text A The Opera Singer 26
Text B Playing a Violin with Three Strings 36
Grammar：Noun 41
Cultural Focus High Mountain and Flowing Stream 44
Unit 3 47
Warm-up Activities 47
Text A Fashion Forest 48
Text B Learn to Live with Curly Hair 58
Grammar：Verb （Ⅰ） 63
Cultural Focus Qipao—A Traditional Chinese Dress 66
Unit 4 69
Warm-up Activities 69
Text A A Dance with Dad 70
Text B Dance Lessons 80
Grammar：Verb （Ⅱ） 85
Cultural Focus The Dragon Dance 88
Unit 5 91
Warm-up Activities 91
Text A If the Dream Is Big Enough 92
Text B Michael Jordan’s Farewell Letter to Basketball 102
Grammar： Special Usages of Comparative Degree 106
Cultural Focus Martial Arts 110
Unit 6 113
Warm-up Activities 113
Text A Tech’s Best Feature： The Off Switch 114
Text B Online Writing 124
Grammar： Modal Verb 129
Cultural Focus Printing 132
Unit 7 135
Warm-up Activities 135
Text A The Fall and Rise of a Star 136
Text B Walks in the Theatre World 146
Grammar：Adverb 152
Cultural Focus Beijing Opera Make-up 156
Unit 8 159
Warm-up Activities 159
Text A Giotto 160
Text B Shapes and Growth of Trees 170
Grammar： Conjunction 175
Cultural Focus Chinese Painting 178
附录 180
附录Ⅰ 词汇表 180
附录Ⅱ 短语表 187