Section One Fine Works on Current Issues

Unit 1 Modern Technology and Life

Lesson One The Rise of Baidu David Barboza

Reading Skill One:Guessing the Meaning of Unknown Words from Context Clues(Part One)

Lesson Two Striking a Balance between Privacy and Convenience Douglas C.Curling

Lesson Three To Clone or Not to Clone,Is That the Question?

Supplementary Reading One Strategic Cost Management

Unit 2 China in the Eyes of Westerners

Lesson Four Shanghai's Boom:A Building Frenzy Howard W.French

Reading Skill Two:Guessing the Meaning of Unknown Words from Context Clues(Part Two)

Lesson Five China Competes with West in Aid to Its Neighbors Jane Perlez

Supplementary Reading Two Chinese New Year—A Promise of Peace and Prosperity William N.Brown

Unit 3 Glimpse of the West

Lesson Six Political Parties in the United States

Reading Skill Three:Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar Vocabulary from Word-formation Clues(compounding and conversion)

Lesson Seven Christmas in New Zealand

Supplementary Reading Three Impressions of America Oscar Wilde

Unit 4 Wisdom in Life

Lesson Eight The Shadows Bruce Hutchison

Reading Skill Four:Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar Vocabulary from Word-formation Clues(stems,prefixes,and suffixes):Part One

Lesson Nine Two Truths to Live By A lexander M.Schindler

Supplementary Reading Four A Simple Truth about Happiness Dennis Prager

Section Two English and Chinese Classics

Unit 5 English Essays

Lesson TenText 1 Of Beauty Francis Bacon

Text 2 Of Studies Francis Bacon

Reading Skill Five:Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar Vocabulary from Word-formation Clues(stems,prefixes,and suffixes):Part Two

Lesson Eleven The Acorn-Gatherer Richard Jefferies

Supplementary Reading Five French and English G.K.Chesterton

Unit 6 English Poems

Lesson TwelvePoem 1 Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare

Poem 2 Song to Celia Ben Johnson

Poem 3 A Red,Red Rose Robert Burns

Reading Skill Six:Poem Appreciation

Supplementary Reading SixPoem 1 Counsel to Girls Robert Herrick

Poem 2 The Tyger William Blake

Poem 3 Daffodils William Wordsworth

Unit 7 English Fictions

Lesson Thirteen The Signalman Charles Dickens

Reading Skill Seven:Sentence Study(Part 1):Comprehension of a Sentence by Reading It in Thought Groups

Lesson Fourteen The Horse Dealer's Daughter D.H.Lawrence

Lesson Fifteen Jane Eyre(Chapter Eight,Volume Two) Charlotte Brontё

Supplementary Reading SevenKew Gardens(Chapter 57) Virginia Woolf

Unit 8 Fine Works by Chinese

Lesson Sixteen The Religion of Good Citizenship Gu Hongming

Reading Skill Eight:Sentence Study(Part 2):Comprehension of a Sentence by Structural Analysis

Lesson Seventeen Farewell,Old Curiosity Shop Xiao Qian

Appendix Keys for Reference