Unit 1
Text:Is There Life on Earth?
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill:Reading Attack Skill I
-Using Word Part Clues for Word Meanings
Passage:Fresh Air WILL Kill You
Guided Writing
Part I Skill:Coherence
Part II Paragraph Writing
Unit 2
Text:The Dinner Party
Study & Paragraph Writing
Reading Activity
Skill:Reading Attack Skill II (Follow-up)
-More Prefixes and Suffixes
Passage:An Important Lesson
Guided Writing
Part I Skill :Combining Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Smog-Eating Cars
Unit 3
Text:Lessons from Jefferson
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill:(Revewing work)
Passage:The American Ideal of a Great Leader
Guided Writing
Part I Skill:Developing a Paragraph from the Topic Sentence
Part II Paragraph Writing
REVISION EXERCISES 1
UNIT 4
Text: My First Job
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill: Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅲ
——Making Inferences While Reading
Passage: Black Boy
Guided Writing
Part I Skill: Combining Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions or Relative Pronouns
Part 11 Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
A Star Is Born
UNIT 5
Text: The Professor and the Yo-Yo
Study& Practice
Reading Activity
Skill: Reading Beyond the Lines
Passage: Alfred Nobel —— A Man of Contrasts
Guided Writing
Part I Skill: Rearranging Sentences in Logical Order
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
TEST YOURSELF: Test Paper 1
UNIT 6
Text: The Making of a Surgeon
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill: Reading for Implied Meanings
Passage: A Doctor on Night-call
Guided Writing
Part I Skill: Parallelism
Part I1 Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Pigs As Organ Donors?
UNIT 7
Text: Theres Only Luck
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill: Reading Comprehension Skill IV
——Drawing Conclusions While Reading
Passage: 38 Who Saw Murder Didnt Call the Police
Guided Writing
Paragraph Writing
UNIT 8
Text: Honesty: Is It Going out of Style?
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill: Review of Drawing Conclusions While Reading
Passage: A Question of Honor
Guided Writing
Part I Skill: Transition I
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Blood Pressure Lower for Working Women?
REVISION EXERCISES 2
UNIT 9
Text: What Is Intelligence, Anyway?
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill: Reading Comprehension Skill V
——Understanding Figurative Language
Passage: Angels on a Pin
Guided Writing
Part I Skill: Transition 11
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
UNIT 10
Text: Profits of Praise
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill: A General Review of Reading Skills
Passage: My Wonderful Lousy Poem
Guided Writing
Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Crazy Weather from the Bottom of the Sea
TEST YOURSELF: Test Paper 2
APPENDIX 1: Key to Revision Exercises 1
Key to Revision Exercises 2
APPENDIX 2: Key to Test Paper 1
Key to Test Paper 2
APPENDIX 3: Key to Exercises in Supplementary Readings
APPENDIX 4: Glossary