Unit 1 Stories About Words

Passage 1 Heart to Heart

Passage 2 When the Cat's Away,the Mice Will Play

Passage 3 Money Talks

Passage 4 Santa Claus

Passage 5 Expressions About Water

Passage 6 Expressions About Colors

Passage 7 Choosing the Right Calendar Takes Time

Passage 8 Heard It on the Grapevine:What?Who Told You That?

Unit 2 Modern Life

Passage 1 The Modern Family

Passage 2 Living Online

Passage 3 Online Shopping

Passage 4 Mobile Phones as a Public Health Tool in Developing Nations

Passage 5 Credit Cards Are Easy to Get,but Harder to Pay Off

Passage 6 Pubs

Passage 7 Soap Operas

Passage 8 Hong Kong Disneyland Park

Unit 3 Studying Abroad

Passage 1 The Application Process to Get into an American College

Passage 2 Public or Private?

Passage 3 University Life

Passage 4 A Key Challenge for Chinese Students

Passage 5 Four Kinds of Financial Aid

Passage 6 Once You Get into a US College,Where Should You Live?

Passage 7 Working While Studying in the US

Passage 8 How to Avoid Being Accused of Plagiarism

Passage 9 The Job Market

Passage 10 Student Holidays

Unit 4 Holidays

Passage 1 New Year's Traditions

Passage 2 Valentine's Day

Passage 3 April Fool's Day

Passage 4 Labor Day

Passage 5 Mother's Day

Passage 6 Halloween

Passage 7 A Traditional Thanksgiving Meal with Modern Shortcuts

Passage 8 Christmas Traditions and Music

Unit 5 Famous People

Passage 1 Eugene McCarthy

Passage 2 Helen Keller(Ⅰ)

Passage 3 Helen Keller(Ⅱ)

Passage 4 Walter Cronkite

Passage 5 Arthur Miller

Passage 6 Michael Jackson

Passage 7 Marilyn Monroe

Passage 8 John Kenneth Galbraith

Unit 6 Speeches

Passage 1 Commencement Address at Harvard University by Bill Gates(Excerpt)

Passage 2 Obama's Victory Speech:Change Has Come to America

Passage 3 Commencement Address at Harvard University by JK Rowling(Excerpt)

Passage 4 Obama's Speech at Masterman School(Excerpt)

Passage 5 Life Without Limbs(Excerpt)

Passage 6 Commencement Address at Stanford University by Steve Jobs

Unit 7 Movie Clips

Clip 1 College RoadTrip(Ⅰ)

Clip 2 College Road Trip(Ⅱ)

Clip 3 The Pursuit of Happiness(Ⅰ)

Clip 4 The Pursuit of Happiness(Ⅱ)

Clip 5 Princess Diary

Clip 6 2012

Unit 8 Prose

Passage 1 Youth

Passage 2 The Voices of Time

Passage 3 Mirror Miracle

Passage 4 Clear Your Mental Space

Passage 5 The Origin of the Rainbow

Passage 6 Do You Know Your Special Talent?

Passage 7 The Only Way to Make a Friend

Passage 8 The Other Woman in My Life

Unit 9 Short Stories

Passage 1 The Lady or the Tiger

Passage 2 Charles

Passage 3 Jacob Have I Loved

Passage 4 Tale for a Frosty Morning

Passage 5 Here It Comes;There It Goes

Passage 6 Tall Tales

Passage 7 A Math Teacher's Story

Passage 8 A Pair of Socks

Unit 10 English Songs

Song 1 Yesterday Once More

Song 2 A Whole New World

Song 3 Let's Talk About Love

Song 4 My Love

Song 5 Don't Cry for Me Argentina

Song 6 Hey Jude

Song 7 When You Believe

Song 8 Scarborough Fair

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