Unit 1 Stories About Words
Passage 1 Heart to Heart
Passage 2 When the Cat‘s Away, the Mice Will Play
Passage 3 Money Talks
Passage 4 Santa Claus
Passage 5 Expressio About Water
Passage 6 Expressio About Colo
Passage 7 Choosing the Right Calendar Takes Time
Passage 8 Heard It on the Grapevine: What? Who Told You That?
Unit 2 Modern Life
Passage 1 The Modem Family
Passage 2 Living Online ’
Passage 3 Online Shopping
Passage 4 Mobile Phones as a Public Health Tool in Developing Natio
Passage 5 Credit Cards Are Easy to Get, but Harder to Pay Off
Passage 6 Pubs
Passage 7 Soap Operas
Passage 8 Hang Kong Disneyland Park
Unit 3 Studying Abroad
Passage 1 The Application Process to Get into an American College
Passage 2 Public or Private?
Passage 3 Unive ity Life
Passage 4 A Key Challenge for Chinese Students
Passage 5 Four Kinds of Financial Aid
Passage 6 Once You Get into a US College,Where Should You Live?
Passage 7 Working While Studying in the US
Passage 8 How to Avoid Being Accused of Plagiarism
Passage 9 The Job Market
Passage 10 Student Holidays
Unit 4 Holidays
Passage I New Year‘s Traditio
Passage 2 Valentine’s Day
Passage 3 April Fool‘s Day
Passage 4 Labor Day
P0ssage 5 Mother’s Day
Passage 6 Halloween
Passage 7 A Traditional Thanksgiving Meal with Modem Shortcuts
Passage 8 Christmas Traditio and Music
Unit 5 Famous People
Passage 1 Eugene McCarthy
Passage 2 Helen Keller ( I )
Passage 3 Helen Keller ( II )
Passage 4 Walter Cronkite
Passage 5 Arthur Miller
Passage 6 Michael Jackson
Passage 7 Marilyn Monroe
Passage 8 John Kenneth Galbraith
Unit 6 Speeches
Passage 1 Commencement Address at Harvard Unive ity by Bill Gates (Excerpt)
Passage 2 Obama‘s Victory Speech:Change Has Come to America
Passage 3 Commencement Address at Harvard Unive ity by JK Rowling (Excerpt)
Passage 4 Obama’s Speech at Masterman School(Excerpt)
Passage 5 Life Without Limbs (Excerpt)
Passage 6 Commencement Address at Stanlord Unive ity by Steve Jobs
Unit 7 Movie Clips
Clip 1 College Road Trip( I )
Clip 2 College Road Trip( II )
Clip 3 The‘Pu uit of Happiness ( I )
Clip 4 The Pu uit of Happiness ( II )
Clip 5 Princess Diary
Clip 6 2012
Unit 8 Prose
Passage 1 Youth
Passage 2 The Voices of Time
Passage 3 Mirror Miracle
Passage 4 Clear your Mental Space
Passage 5 The Origin of the Rainbow
Passage 6 Do You Know Your Special Talent?
Passage 7 The Only Way to Make a Friend
Passage 8 The Other Woman in My Life
Unit 9 Short Stories
Passage 1 The Lady or the Tiger
Passage 2 Charles
Passage 3 Jacob Have I Loved
Passage 4 Tale for a Frosty Morning
Passage 5 Here It Comes; There It Goes
Passage 6 Tall Tales
Passage 7 A Math Teacher’s Story
Passage 8 A Pair of Socks
Unit 10 English Songs
Song 1 Yesterday Once More
Song 2 A Whole New World
Song 3 Let‘s Talk About Love
Song 4 My Love
Song 5 Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
Song 6 Hey Jude
Song 7 When You Believe
Song 8 Scarborough Fair