Chapter One Stories Unit 1 An Old Man and His Umbrella Unit 2 I've Left My Shoe Pattern at Home Unit 3 Helping Hands Unit 4 Congratulations on Your New Position Unit 5 The House of 1,ooo Mirrors Unit 6 A Young Apple Tree Unit 7 Home Unit 8 The Old Woman and the Physician Further Reading The Old Man and the Sea (Excerpts) Twilight(Excerpts) Chapter Two Speeches(Excerpts) Unit 1 Peter Salovey's Yale College Opening Assembly Address(Excerpts) Unit 2 lack Ma's Speech at Tel Aviv University(Excerpts) Unit 3 Steve lobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University(Excerpts) Unit 4 Tim Cook's Commencement Address at Duke University(Excerpts) Unit 5 Queen Elizabeth I1 's Christmas Speech in 2017(Excerpts) Unit 6 0prah Winfrey's Speech at the Golden Globes(Excerpts) Unit 7 Leonardo DiCaprio's Speech at the Opening of the High-level Signature Ceremony for The Paris Agreement(Excerpts) Unit 8 Yao Ming's Speech at the Hall of Fame(Excerpts) Further Reading Thinking Like a Fox Why Do We Go to School Chapter Three News Unit 1 College Packing List Across Different Generations Unit 2 Food with Surprising Origins Unit 3 China Is the Second Largest Home to AI Enterprises Unit 4 Women Are Actually Better Drivers？ Unit 5 Chinese Cities Rank Among Ten Most Expensive Cities Unit 6 American Company Offers "Shared-Nannies" Unit 7 "Dumb Phones" Gain Its Popularity Again Unit 8 Japan Railway Apologizes for a 25-Second Early Departure Further Reading Why Coke and Pepsi Taste So Different？ Mahjong Has Been Named Formally as a Sixth International Mind Sport Chapter Four China at a Glance Unit 1 Beihai Park Unit 2 National Museum of China Unit 3 Hangzhou Unit 4 Dumplings Unit 5 Chinese Beijing Opera Unit 6 The Four Treasures of the Study Unit 7 China's High-Speed Railway Unit 8 Bicycle Further Reading Han Suyin's China(Excerpts) My Country and My People(Excerpts) Appendix Sample Essays Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3 Sample 4 Sample 5 Sample 6 Sample 7 Sample 8 Sample 9 Sample 10
