Unit 1 Transport
Text A Proposed Future Transport
Text B How We Traveled
Leaming Activities
Supplementary Reading Is it Safe to Travel Nowadays?
Unit 2 Detective Stories
Text A The Dead Detective
Text B Key to Success
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading The Most Famous Detectives in Literature
Unit 3 Exploration
Text A King of the Peaks
Text B Marco Polo: The Glories of Kinsay [Hangchow]
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading History of Exploration
Unit 4 Crisis
Text A Three Hours of Fear and Hope (I)
Text B Three Hours of Fear and Hope (II)
Leaming Activities
Supplementary Reading What Courage Looks Like?
Unit 5 Honesty
Text A Excuses, Excuses
Text B Lets Put the Heat on Campus Cheats
Supplementary Reading Advice to Youth
Leaming Activities
Unit 6 Enjoy Listening!
Text A How to Listen to Movies
Text B How to Listen to TV News
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading How to Listen to Songs
Unit 7 Tests
Text A A Testing Time
Text B IELTS and TOEFL
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading
Unit 8 Poets and Poems
Text A Walt Whitman
Text B Robert Frost
Leaming Activities
Supplementary Reading Emily Dickinson
Unit 9 Famous Speeches
Text A John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address
Text B Obituary to Princess Diana Speech
Leaming Activities
Supplementary Reading 9/11 Speech
Unit 10 Technology:A Blessing or a Curse
text A Tech-ed off
text B Cell Phones Indulge Arrogance of Youths
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading Technological Advances Take up More of Our Time
Unit 11 Daddy-Long-Legs
Text A The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith I
Text B The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith II
Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading Blue Wednesday
Unit 12 Single Parent Families
Text A Good Intentions
Text B Single Parent Families:Serve Them Through Scoutreach Learning Activities
Supplementary Reading A Day in the Life of a Single Parent
Key to Some of the Exercises