Section One Fine Works on Current Isses
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 OneStrategic Cost Management
Unit 2 China in the Eyes of Westerners
Lesson Four Shanghais 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
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 Bruee 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 Fine Works on Current IssesUnit 5 English Essays
Lesson Ten Text 1 Of Beauty FFancis Bacon
TeXt2 Of Studies Francis Bacon
Reading Skill Five:Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar Vocabulary from Word.for mation 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 EngIish Poems
Lesson Twelve Poem Sonnet
William Shakespeare
Poem 2 Songto Celia Ben Johlhson
Poem 3 ARed,RedRose Robert Burns
Reading Skill Six:Poem Appreciation
Supplementary Reading Six
Poem Counsel to Girls Robert Herrick
Poem2 The Tyger William BZake
Poem 3 Daffodils
William Wordsworth
Unit 7 English Flctions
Lesson Thirteen The Signalman
Charles Dickens
Reading Skill Seven Sentence Study(Part 1):Comprehensionof a Sentence by Reading It in Thought Gmups
Lesson Fourteen TheHorseDealer’s Daughter D.H.Lawrence
Lesson Fifteen Jane Eyre(Chapter Eight,Volume Two)Charlotte Bront
Supplementary Reading Seven
Kew Gardens(Chapter 57)Virginia Woolf
Unit 8 Fine Works by Chinese
Lesson Sixteen The Religion of Good Citizenship Gu Hong ming
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