泛读教程

Unit 1 Transport

Text A Proposed Future Transport

Text B How We Traveled

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading Is it Safe to Travel Nowadays?

Unit 2 Detective Stories

Text A The Dead Detective

Text B Key to Success

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading The Most Famous Detectives in Literature

Unit 3 Exploration

Text A King of the Peaks

Text B Marco Polo： The Glories of Kinsay [Hangchow]

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading History of Exploration

Unit 4 Crisis

Text A Three Hours of Fear and Hope （I）

Text B Three Hours of Fear and Hope （II）

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading What Courage Looks Like?

Unit 5 Honesty

Text A Excuses， Excuses

Text B Lets Put the Heat on Campus Cheats

Supplementary Reading Advice to Youth

Leaming Activities

Unit 6 Enjoy Listening!

Text A How to Listen to Movies

Text B How to Listen to TV News

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading How to Listen to Songs

Unit 7 Tests

Text A A Testing Time

Text B IELTS and TOEFL

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading

Unit 8 Poets and Poems

Text A Walt Whitman

Text B Robert Frost

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading Emily Dickinson

Unit 9 Famous Speeches

Text A John F. Kennedy： Inaugural Address

Text B Obituary to Princess Diana Speech

Leaming Activities

Supplementary Reading 9/11 Speech

Unit 10 Technology：A Blessing or a Curse

text A Tech-ed off

text B Cell Phones Indulge Arrogance of Youths

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Technological Advances Take up More of Our Time

Unit 11 Daddy-Long-Legs

Text A The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith I

Text B The Letters of Miss Jerusha Abbott to Mr. Daddy-Long-Legs Smith II

Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading Blue Wednesday

Unit 12 Single Parent Families

Text A Good Intentions

Text B Single Parent Families：Serve Them Through Scoutreach Learning Activities

Supplementary Reading A Day in the Life of a Single Parent

Key to Some of the Exercises

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