本教材分八个单元,分专题组织阅读材料,便于学生围绕某个专题获取相关知识和信息,设计的专题包括学习与成长、健康与人生、人与自然、环保与社会、科学与文明、文化与沟通、时政与经济、人物故事,等等,有利于学生拓展视野,提高综合素质;每个专题下有快速阅读文章、深度阅读文章和美文欣赏,文章后配有理解练习题,每学期配有期中、期末测试题各一套。
Unit I Environment and Protection
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
What Causes Global Warming?
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
Creative Recycling Tips to Help the Environment
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
Winter
Unit 2 Learning and Growth
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
The First Four Minutes
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
From Dumb English to Smart English
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
Just for Today
Unit 3 Information and Technology
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
Study: TV Makes Learning Less Efficient
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
What Your Inbox Says about You
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
Growing Roots
Unit 4 Health and Life
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
Excessive Sugar Can Begin a Vicious Energy
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
Government Changes to Environment Can Make Us Fit
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
T. S. Eliot
Unit 5 CrossCulture
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
Aspects of English Life: Class Delineation
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
10 Smart Money Moves to Make in Tough Times
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
Knowledge and Virtue
Unit 6 People and Their Stories
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
Unexpected WonderJeans
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
The Mystery of the Mayas
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
How to Grow Old
Unit 7 Science and Nature
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
Brain Pills Are Coming Soon
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
On the Phone, Better to Be Heard and Not Seen
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
Thoughts for a New Year
Unit 8 Animal World
Passage 1 (Intensive Reading)
How Spiders "Fly" Hundreds 0fMiles
Passage 2 (Fast Reading)
Heroes: Dog Attack Rescue
Passage 3 (Appreciation)
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech (Excerpt)