新世纪基础英语（2）学生用书

Unit 1 People around you

Text A Look carefully and learn

Dialogue Keep in touch

Text B Bill Gates

Grammar 1. Present and past continuous tenses

2. Auxiliary verbs

Unit 2 Around the world

Text A England and Britain

Dialogue We want to go to Spain.

Text BImpressions of the British

Grammar The comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs

Unit 3 Life stories

Text A Excuses

Dialogue A birthday gift

Text B" Whatever you need"

Grammar Word formation

Unit 4 News and media

Text A Surviving a plane crash

Dialogue What a mess

Text B Different types of media

Grammar Types of sentences

Unit 5 Dealing with money

Text A Money and the meaning of life

Dialogue Making ends meet

Text B The history of money

Grammar Presentperfect tense

Unit 6 Words and stories

Text A The dumbest of grammas in the world

Dialogue Seeing eye to eye

Text B Where are the words from

Grammar Modal verbs - can, may, must

Unit 7 Fairy stories

Text A The eagle and the beetle

Dialogue The moral of a fable

Text B Walking in the woods

Grammar When-clause and if clause

Unit 8 Social matters

Text A FBI teams up with business to fight cyber crime

Dialogue A chat on line

Text B Good intentions aren 't enough

Grammar Restrictive attributive clause.,

Unit 9 Science and future

Text A Why we must venture into space

Dialogue A difficult job to do

Text B How computers came about

Grammar Expressions of simple future tense： "will " and "be going to "

Unit 10 Customs

Text A A national holiday

Dialogue Dinner invitation

Text B April Fools Day

Grammar Passive voice

Unit 11 Dilemmas

Text A A working woman s dilemma

Dialogue A student's dilemma

Text B The prisoner s dilemma： a fable

Grammar Direct and indirect speeches

Unit 12 Cultural difference

Appendix：Glossary

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