Unit One

Text A:Peking University Address

Text B:Five Evidences of an Education

Phonetics:Prommciation--Fricatives

Grammar:The Subject--Verd Core

Unit Two

Text A:Versatile Man

Text B:Two Versatile Men:Leonardo da Vinci and Sir Philip Sidney

Phonetics:Promunciation--Plosives

Grammar:Predicate Verds and Frozen Verds

Unit Three

Text A:Do This and You ll Be Welcome Anywhere

Text B:Beautiful Smile and Love

Phonetics:Promunciation--Affiricates

Grammar:Verb Pattern(1):Linking Verb+Subjesct Complement(VC)

Unit Four

Text A:The Station

Text B:Gather Ye Rose-buds:Philosophies of Life

Phonetics:Pronunciation--Nasals

Grammar:Verb Pattern(2):Intransitive Verb(V)

Unit Five

Text A:Rites of Passage

Text B:Her Shadow

Phonetics:Pronunciation--Lateral

Grammar:Verb Pattern(3):Verb+Object(VO)

Text A:The Days When I Couldn t Speak(Ⅰ)

Unit Six

Text B:The Days When I Couldn t Speak(Ⅱ)

Phonetics:Pronunciation--Semi--Vowels

Grammar:Verb Pattern(4):Verb+Object+Complement(VOC)

Unit Seven

Text A:In and of Ourselves We Trust

Text B:A Traffic Light Is a Brainless Machine

Phonetics:Pronunciation--Frictionless Continunant

Grammar:Verb Pattern(5):Verb+Indirect Object+Direct Object(VOO)

Text A:As Some May One Day See

Unit Eight

Text B:A City without Green

Phonetics:Pronunciation--Consonant Clusters

Grammar:Subject-Verb Concord

Unit Nine

Text A:Human Life as a Poem

Text B:On How to Grow Old

Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Front Vowels

Grammar:Present Time

Unit Ten

Text A:Night Watch

Text B:The Dying Girl That No One Helped

Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Back Vowels

Grammar:Past Tense(1)

Unit Eleven

Text A: Mother Tongue

Text B: A Widely-used But Crazy Language

Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Central Vowels

Grammar:Past Tense(2)

Unit Twelve

Text A:American Space,Chinese Place

Text B:Travel With Charley

Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Closing Diphthongs(1)

Grammar:Past Tense(3)

Unit Thirteen

Text A:Why I Decided to Be a Writer

Text B:The Joys of Writing

Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Closing Diphthongs(2)

Grammar:Future Tense

Unit Forteen

Text A:New Lifestyles from Old Philosophies

Text B:Wisdom

Phonetics:Pronunciation--The Centring Diphthongs

Grammar:The Passive Voice

Glossary