Contents 1
Unit 1 Love 1
Text A A boy with a mission 4
Dialogue Romance is usually a mystery 11
Text B Hungry for your love 12
Guided writing Simple，compound，complex and compound-complex sentences 17
Grammar Punctuation Ⅰ 19
Unit 2 Growing-up 22
Text A When Allie left home 24
Dialogue I wish I hada sister like yours 31
Text B It's not just how we play that matters 32
Guided writing Relations between sentences Ⅰ—combination，expansion and transition 38
Grammar Punctuation Ⅱ 41
Unit 3 Culture and language 44
Text A Friendship in different cultures 46
Dialogue What do you like to do with your free time？ 54
Text B Do the English understand English？ 55
Guidedwriting Relations between sentences Ⅱ—parallelism，subordination and contraction 60
Grammar Tag questions 62
Unit 4 Lifestyle 66
Text A How to install love 68
Dialogue Would you please teach me how to use the computer？ 76
Text B My resignation 77
Guided writing Topic sentences 82
Grammar Phrasal verbs 84
Unit 5 Happiness 88
Text A The importance of just being there 90
Dialogue Why don't you change your attitude and be happy？ 99
Text B The terribly，tragically sad man 100
Guided writing Paragraph development by examples 106
Grammar Compound words 109
Unit 6 Communication 112
Text A Communicating without body language 114
Dialogue I ordered it through internet！ 121
Text B Internet addiction—fact or fantasy？ 122
Guided writing Paragraph development by comparison and contrast 127
Grammar The word order of adjectives 130
Unit 7 Psychoanalysis 132
Text A Young Hans 134
Dialogue Bird-watching on TV or in the mountains？ 141
Text B Doctor of the mind 142
Guided writing Paragraph development by definition and classification 149
Grammar Noun clauses 152
Unit 8 A better world 156
Text A I imagine world peace 158
Dialogue Earth day 166
Text B The butterfly on the redwood 167
Guided writing Paragraph development by space and time 174
Grammar Adverbial clauses of time，place，concession and comparison 176
Unit 9 The most precious gift 182
Text A The most precious gift 184
Dialogue What is the most precious gift？ 193
Text B Wendy's story 194
Guided writing Paragraph development by cause and effect 201
Grammar Adverbial clauses of cause，purpose and result 203
Unit 10 Popular science 206
Text A Ants are smarter than we think 208
Dialogue Does camel spit at people？ 217
Text B How plants prepare for winter 218
Guided writing Concluding sentences 223
Grammar Subordinate clauses 225
Unit 11 Job and interview 228
Text A How to handle different types of interview 230
Dialogue I am qualified for the job I apply for 237
Text B What to wear for job interviews 238
Guided writing Unity and coherence Ⅰ 243
Grammar Appositives and appositive clauses 246
Unit 12 Opinions 248
Text A No gains without pains—or are there？ 250
Dialogue Isn't it unfair，sir？ 257
Text B So-called psychic a simple trickster 258
Guided writing Unity and coherence Ⅱ 265
Grammar Parallelism 267
Appendix Glossary 271