Unit 1 Campus Life

Section A Text A:Three Big Lessons Harvard Never Taught Me

Section B Reading Skills:Inferring Word Meanings

Text B:The Interview

Section C Text C:Save Money for College by My Own

Section D Writing Skills:Sentences with Different Grammatical Structures

Unit 2 Cultural Entertainment

Section A Text A:How do People Choose Names for Their Children?

Section B Reading Skills:Reading for the Key Idea in a Sentence

Text B:Martial Arts

Section C Text C:The End of British Pub Culture?

Section D Writing Skills:Coordination

Unit 3 Social Etiquette

Section A Text A:Appropriate Gift Etiquette

Section B Reading Skills:Reading for Stated Main Ideas in Paragraphs

Text B:Dining Customsin America

Section C Text C:Body Language Speaks Louder than Words

Section D Writing Skills:Subordination

Unit 4 Food Culture

Section A Text A:Dumplings Help Keep Culture and Community Alive

Section B Reading Skills:Reading for Implied Ideas in Paragraphs

Text B:As American as Chinese Food

Section C Text C:Pleasure and Process:A Recipe for Good Eating

Section C Writing Skills:Non-finite Verbs

Unit 5 Holidays and Customs

Section A Text A:China:Celebrations,Holidays,and Customs

Section B Reading Skills:Reading for Major Details

Text B:Superstition in Britain

Section C Text C:The Gift of Grr-Face

Section D Writing Skills:Agreement Between the Subject and the Predicate Verb

Unit 6 Sports and Leisure

Section A Text A:Helmet-wearing Cyclists are More Likely to be Knocked Down

Section B Reading Skills:Scanning

Text B:Triplets,7,Win a National Chess Title

Section C Text C:Harder than Winning Gold at the Olympics?

Section D Writing Skills:Emphasis

Unit 7 Famous People

Section A Text A:Henry Ford

Section B Reading Skills:Reading Between the Lines

Text B:My Loneliness

Section C Text C:A Boy's sensitivities—a Story of Mark Twain

Section D Writing Skills:Sentence Variety

Unit 8 The World of Animals

Section A Text A:Bears Like Honey,but not Bees!

Section B Reading Skills:Understanding Idiomatic Expressions

Text B:How do Birds Fly?

Section C Text C:Service Animals Help Humans Live Fuller Life

Section D Writing Skills:Common Errors to Avoid in Sentence Development

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