Unit 1 Short Stories 2
Lead-in 2
Text A:A Pair of Silk Stockings 2
Text B:Cat in the Rain 15
Writing:Sentence Unity 20
Unit 2 Great Athletes 23
Lead-in 23
Text A:Michael Jordan 23
Text B:Yao Ming 34
Writing:Coherence 40
Unit 3 Language Development 44
Lead-in 44
Text A:Your Speech Is Changing 44
Text B:NEEDED:An International Language 57
Writing:Effective Sentence—Conciseness 64
Unit 4 Faith 68
Lead-in 68
Text A:Shattered Faith 68
Text B:The Power to Uplift 81
Writing:Effective Sentence—Transitional Expressions 88
Test 1 90
Unit 5 Advertising 99
Lead-in 99
Text A:The Advertising of Nike 99
Text B:Body Image and Advertising 110
Writing:Classification 115
Unit 6 Public Speaking 122
Lead-in 122
Text A:John F.Kennedy's Inaugural Address 123
Text B:Clinton's Farewell Address 136
Writing:Comparison and Contrast 142
Unit 7 Academic Success 145
Lead-in 145
Text A:What's Your Emotional IQ? 146
Text B:What Happens to Child Prodigies? 157
Writing:Cause-and-effect 164
Unit 8 Poems and Poets 167
Lead-in 167
Text A:Three Poems 168
Text B:"Writ in Water"—Shelley,Byron,Keats and the Italian Sea 178
Writing:Definition 185
Test 2 187
Appendix 1 Phonetics(Ⅰ) 196
Appendix 2 Translation Skills(Ⅰ) 203