Unit 1 Stories About Words 1
Passage 1 Heart to Heart 1
Passage 2 When the Cat's Away,the Mice Will Play 3
Passage 3 Money Talks 4
Passage 4 Santa Claus 6
Passage 5 Expressions About Water 7
Passage 6 Expressions About Colors 9
Passage 7 Choosing the Right Calendar Takes Time 10
Passage 8 Heard It on the Grapevine:What?Who Told You That? 12
Unit 2 Modern Life 14
Passage 1 The Modern Family 14
Passage 2 Living Online 16
Passage 3 Online Shopping 18
Passage 4 Mobile Phones as a Public Health Tool in Developing Nations 19
Passage 5 Credit Cards Are Easy to Get,but Harder to Pay Off 21
Passage 6 Pubs 23
Passage 7 Soap Operas 24
Passage 8 Hong Kong Disneyland Park 26
Unit 3 Studying Abroad 30
Passage 1 The Application Process to Get into an American College 30
Passage 2 Public or Private? 31
Passage 3 University Life 33
Passage 4 A Key Challenge for Chinese Students 35
Passage 5 Four Kinds of Financial Aid 37
Passage 6 Once You Get into a US College,Where Should You Live? 38
Passage 7 Working While Studying in the US 40
Passage 8 How to Avoid Being Accused of Plagiarism 41
Passage 9 The Job Market 42
Passage 10 Student Holidays 44
Unit 4 Holidays 47
Passage 1 New Year's Traditions 47
Passage 2 Valentine's Day 50
Passage 3 April Fool's Day 51
Passage 4 Labor Day 52
Passage 5 Mother's Day 54
Passage 6 Halloween 55
Passage 7 A Traditional Thanksgiving Meal with Modern Shortcuts 57
Passage 8 Christmas Traditions and Music 59
Unit 5 Famous People 62
Passage 1 Eugene McCarthy 62
Passage 2 Helen Keller(Ⅰ) 65
Passage 3 Helen Keller(Ⅱ) 68
Passage 4 Walter Cronkite 71
Passage 5 Arthur Miller 74
Passage 6 Michael Jackson 78
Passage 7 Marilyn Monroe 80
Passage 8 John Kenneth Galbraith 83
Unit 6 Speeches 86
Passage 1 Commencement Address at Harvard University by Bill Gates(Excerpt) 86
Passage 2 Obama's Victory Speech:Change Has Come to America 92
Passage 3 Commencement Address at Harvard University by JK Rowling(Excerpt) 100
Passage 4 Obama's Speech at Masterman School(Excerpt) 102
Passage 5 Life Without Limbs(Excerpt) 105
Passage 6 Commencement Address at Stanford University by Steve Jobs 108
Unit 7 Movie Clips 115
Clip 1 College RoadTrip(Ⅰ) 115
Clip 2 College Road Trip(Ⅱ) 120
Clip 3 The Pursuit of Happiness(Ⅰ) 126
Clip 4 The Pursuit of Happiness(Ⅱ) 133
Clip 5 Princess Diary 141
Clip 6 2012 145
Unit 8 Prose 151
Passage 1 Youth 151
Passage 2 The Voices of Time 152
Passage 3 Mirror Miracle 154
Passage 4 Clear Your Mental Space 156
Passage 5 The Origin of the Rainbow 157
Passage 6 Do You Know Your Special Talent? 159
Passage 7 The Only Way to Make a Friend 161
Passage 8 The Other Woman in My Life 164
Unit 9 Short Stories 167
Passage 1 The Lady or the Tiger 167
Passage 2 Charles 170
Passage 3 Jacob Have I Loved 173
Passage 4 Tale for a Frosty Morning 176
Passage 5 Here It Comes;There It Goes 178
Passage 6 Tall Tales 181
Passage 7 A Math Teacher's Story 184
Passage 8 A Pair of Socks 186
Unit 10 English Songs 189
Song 1 Yesterday Once More 189
Song 2 A Whole New World 191
Song 3 Let's Talk About Love 194
Song 4 My Love 195
Song 5 Don't Cry for Me Argentina 197
Song 6 Hey Jude 199
Song 7 When You Believe 201
Song 8 Scarborough Fair 203
参考文献 205