Level Ⅰ 1
Lesson 1 1
Reading skills 泛读和精读(Extensive reading andintensive reading) 1
Text They Had to Kill to Eat(narra-tion,171words) 2
Lesson 2 8
Reading skills 猜测词义(Guessing at word mean-ing) 8
Text Whales Communicate(exposition,162words) 9
Lesson 3 15
Text A Nation’s Joy(narration,194words) 15
Lesson 4 20
Reading skills 认识同义词和反义词(Recognizingsynonyms and antonyms) 20
Text A Clever Old Lion(narration,224words) 21
Lesson 5 27
Reading aloud 1.朗读的目的(The aim of read-ing aloud) 27
2.掌握意群进行朗读(Reading aloud in sense groups) 27
Text Finding the Treasure(narration,261words) 28
Lesson 6 36
Reading skills 应用构词技巧(Applying word-building skills)(1) 36
Text Daedalus and Icarus(narration,293words) 38
Lesson 7 44
Reading skills 应用构词技巧(Applying word-building skills)(2) 44
Text A Class Visitor(narration,307words) 45
Lesson 8 51
Reading skills 应用构词技巧(Applying word-building skills)(3) 51
Text A Roman Slave and a Lion(nar-ration,307words) 51
Lesson 9 58
Reading skills 找句子核心(Looking for the coreof the sentence)(1) 58
Text Whale Hunting(exposition,323words) 59
Lesson 10 65
Reading skills 找句子核心(Looking for the coreof the sentence)(2) 65
Reading aloud 用读说结合法训练流利朗读(Using the read-and-look-up technique for oral fluency) 66
Text A Report of the Accident(narra-tion,273words) 67
Lesson 11 74
Reading skills 认识标点符号的功能(Recognizing the function of punctuation) 74
Text An Exciting Incident(narration,281words) 75
Lesson 12 81
Text A Letter to Parents(narration,243words) 81
Lesson 13 87
Reading skills 认识连接用语的用法(Recognizing the use of connectors) 87
Text Tom Sawyer(narration,279words) 88
Lesson 14 95
Text Secrets(narration,312words) 95
Lesson 15 100
Text The Wizard of Menlo Park(nar-ration,227words) 100
Level Ⅱ 103
Lesson 1 103
Reading skills 认识散文的四种基本形式(Recog-nizing the four basic types of prose) 103
Text Mother Love(narration,294words) 104
Lesson 2 111
Reading skills 认识描写文(Recognizing descrip-tion) 111
Text On the Bus(description,212words) 111
Lesson 3 117
Reading skills 认识说明文(Recognizing exposi-tion) 117
Text Skin-Diving(exposition,297words) 117
Lesson 4 124
Text What Helicopters Do for Us(ex-position,303words) 124
Lesson 5 132
Reading skills 认识论说文(Recognizing argu-mentation)(1) 132
Text Homework—A Necessary Evil(argumentation,194words) 133
Lesson 6 138
Reading skills 认识论说文(Recognizing argu-mentation)(2) 138
Text Learning Language Is Easy—OrIs It?(argumentation,252words) 139
Lesson 7 144
Reading skills 认识文章结构——段落分析(Rec-ognizing the organization of a text—paragraph analysis) 144
Text Style(argumentation,209words) 146
Lesson 8 151
Text The First Man in Space(narra-tion,309words) 151
Lesson 9 158
Reading skills 认识时间次序(Recognizing chron-ological order) 158
Text An Excellent Hit(narration,310words) 158
Lesson 10 165
Reading skills 认识空间次序(Recognizing spatial order) 165
Text The Lorelei(description,279words) 165
Lesson 11 171
Reading skills 认识比较和对比(Recognizing com-parison and contrast) 171
Text Australia and the United States:A Comparison(exposition,296words) 171
Lesson 12 180
Reading skills 认识原因和结果(Recognizing cause and effect) 180
Text The Population Explosion(expo-sition,231words) 180
Lesson 13 185
Reading skills 认识辩论(Recognizing argument) 185
Text An Argument(narration and ar-gumentation,258words) 185
Lesson 14 190
Text Weather Forecasting(narration and exposition,298words) 190
Lesson 15 194
Text Problem-Solving(exposition,364words) 194
Level Ⅲ 198
Lesson 1 198
Reading skills 预测(Predicting) 198
Text Judo(argumentation,244words) 199
Lesson 2 206
Reading aloud 描写文的朗读(Reading aloud of a description) 206
Text Morning on the Mountains(de-scription,453words) 207
Lesson 3 212
Reading skills 预阅(Previewing) 212
Text A Dream Come True(narration,265words) 214
Lesson 4 223
Reading skills 预期(Anticipating) 223
Text Computers in the Modern World(exposition,294words) 223
Lesson 5 231
Reading skills 提高阅读速度(Improving reading speed) 231
Reading aloud 对话的朗读(The reading of a dialogue) 232
Text Bike for a Better City(argumen-tation,291words) 233
Lesson 6 244
Reading skills 速读(Skimming) 244
Text Rockets(narration and exposition,354words) 245
Lesson 7 256
Reading skills 查阅(Scanning) 256
Text Taishan(narration and exposition,340words) 257
Lesson 8 266
Reading skills 写摘要(Summarizing) 266
Text The Long ChainofEvolution(ar-gumentation,382words) 270
Lesson 9 279
Reading skills 写笔记(Note-making) 279
Text A Rich Archaeological Seam(nar-ration,380words) 282
Lesson 10 290
Reading skills 对文章的评价(Assessing the text) 290
Text Why Early Bird?(narration and exposition,341words) 292
Lesson 11 301
Text Transport in the Future: Air or Sea? (argumentation,469words) 301
Lesson 12 310
Text A Pound of Flesh(narration and argumentation,630words) 310
Lesson 13 318
Text The Old Man and the Sea (nar-ration and description,489words) 318
Lesson 14 326
Text A Christmas Letter(narration,395words) 326
Lesson 15 334
Text Galileo(narration and description,472words) 334
Key to Exercises 339
Bibliography 365