Unit 1 Short Stories

Lead-in

Text A:A Pair of Silk Stockings

Text B:Cat in the Rain

Writing:Sentence Unity

Unit 2 Great Athletes

Lead-in

Text A:Michael Jordan

Text B:Yao Ming

Writing:Coherence

Unit 3 Language Development

Lead-in

Text A:Your Speech Is Changing

Text B:NEEDED:An International Language

Writing:Effective Sentence—Conciseness

Unit 4 Faith

Lead-in

Text A:Shattered Faith

Text B:The Power to Uplift

Writing:Effective Sentence—Transitional Expressions

Test 1

Unit 5 Advertising

Lead-in

Text A:The Advertising of Nike

Text B:Body Image and Advertising

Writing:Classification

Unit 6 Public Speaking

Lead-in

Text A:John F.Kennedy's Inaugural Address

Text B:Clinton's Farewell Address

Writing:Comparison and Contrast

Unit 7 Academic Success

Lead-in

Text A:What's Your Emotional IQ?

Text B:What Happens to Child Prodigies?

Writing:Cause-and-effect

Unit 8 Poems and Poets

Lead-in

Text A:Three Poems

Text B:"Writ in Water"—Shelley,Byron,Keats and the Italian Sea

Writing:Definition

Test 2

Appendix 1 Phonetics(Ⅰ)

Appendix 2 Translation Skills(Ⅰ)