Unit 1 Short Stories
Lead-in
Text A:A Pair of Silk Stockings
Text B:Cat in the Rain
Writing:Sentence Unity
Unit 2 Great Athletes
Lead-in
Text A:Michael Jordan
Text B:Yao Ming
Writing:Coherence
Unit 3 Language Development
Lead-in
Text A:Your Speech Is Changing
Text B:NEEDED:An International Language
Writing:Effective Sentence-Conciseness
Unit 4 Faith
Lead-in
Text A:Shattered Faith
Text B:The Power to Uplift
Writing:Effective Sentence-Transitional Expressions
Test 1
Unit 5 Advertising
Lead-in
Text A:The Advertising of Nike
Text B:Body Image and Advertising
Writing:Classification
Unit 6 Public Speaking
Lead-in
Text A:John F.Kennedy's Inaugural Address
Text B:Clinton's Farewell Address
Writing:Comparison and Contrast
Unit 7 Academic Success
Lead-in
Text A:What's Your Emotional IQ?
Text B:What Happens to Child Prodigies?
Writing:Cause-and-effect
Unit 8 Poems and Poets
Lead-in
Text A:Three Poems
Text B:"Writ in Water"-Shelley,Byron,Keats the Italian Sea
Writing:Definition
Test 2
Appendix1 Phonetics (Ⅰ)
Appedndix2 Translation Skills (Ⅰ)
