CONTENTS 1
PRELIMINARY LESSONS 1
Part One 1
Vocabulary and Sentence Patterns 1
Part Two 9
Grammar 9
UNIT ONE 24
Text An English Christmas 24
Proverb 28
Reading Skills Determining the Main Idea 42
Reading Material The Christmas Present 51
Text Thomas Jefferson 58
UNIT TWO 58
Proverb 63
Reading Skillls Guessing the Meaning of an Unfamiliar Word 74
Reading Material Lessons from Jefferson 83
UNIT THREE 91
Text Three Weeks to a Better Me 91
REVISION EXERCISES(Unit Pive-Unit Eight) 92
Proverb 95
Reading Skills Determining the Implied Meaning of a Passage 104
Reading Material“Billy Stole It!” 113
UNIT FOUR 120
Text The Interview 120
Proverb 126
Reading Skills Skimming and Scanning 136
Reading Material Factory Life—a Student’s Experience 146
REVISION EXERCISES(Unit One—Unit Four) 152
UNIT FIVE 168
Text I Observe 168
Proverb 174
Composition Skills Writing Effective Sentences 184
Reading Material I’ve Got a New Pa 193
UNIT SIX 200
Text How Computers are Changing Our World 200
Proverb 205
Composition Skills Writing a Paragraph 213
Reading Material A Robot about the House 221
Text The Accursed House 228
UNIT SEVEN 228
Proverb 235
Composition Skills Writing an Essay 247
Reading Material British“Logic” 256
UNIT EIGHT 262
Text Some Personal Thoughts 262
Proverb 267
Composition Skills Achieving Coherence with Transitions 277
Reading Material The Last Day of Her Life 286
APPENDIXES 308
1Some Preposition Combinations With Adjectives and Verbs 308
2Vocabulary 324