Unit One The Nature of Sports 1
Brainstorm 3
Section One Read and Think 3
Text One Sportsmen of the Year 3
Text Two Introduction 7
Text Three The Joy of Sports 15
Text Four Concerns for Excellence 22
Section Two Think by Writing 30
Unit Two Features of Sports 37
Assignment 39
Section One Elements of Sports 39
Text One Harry Potter Inspires a New Sport 40
Text Two Basketball 43
Section Two The Origin of a Sport 53
Text Three History，Cultural Context，and Terminology of Windsurf ing 53
Section Three Sport Code of Sports 59
Text Four History，Cultural Context，and Terminology of Windsurf ing 59
Text Five Closing a Deal 66
Section Four The Signif icance of Sports 68
Text Six Baseball in the Garden of Eden 68
Unit Three Collocations Related with Sports 75
Section One Notice Collocations 77
Exercise One 78
Exercise Two 79
Section Two Use Concordance Sentences to Identify Collocations 80
Exercise Three 80
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