Chapter One Stories
Unit 1 An Old Man and His Umbrella
Unit 2 I've Left My Shoe Pattern at Home
Unit 3 Helping Hands
Unit 4 Congratulations on Your New Position
Unit 5 The House of 1,ooo Mirrors
Unit 6 A Young Apple Tree
Unit 7 Home
Unit 8 The Old Woman and the Physician
Further Reading
The Old Man and the Sea (Excerpts)
Twilight(Excerpts)
Chapter Two Speeches(Excerpts)
Unit 1 Peter Salovey's Yale College Opening Assembly Address(Excerpts)
Unit 2 lack Ma's Speech at Tel Aviv University(Excerpts)
Unit 3 Steve lobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University(Excerpts)
Unit 4 Tim Cook's Commencement Address at Duke University(Excerpts)
Unit 5 Queen Elizabeth I1 's Christmas Speech in 2017(Excerpts)
Unit 6 0prah Winfrey's Speech at the Golden Globes(Excerpts)
Unit 7 Leonardo DiCaprio's Speech at the Opening of the High-level Signature Ceremony for The Paris Agreement(Excerpts)
Unit 8 Yao Ming's Speech at the Hall of Fame(Excerpts)
Further Reading
Thinking Like a Fox
Why Do We Go to School
Chapter Three News
Unit 1 College Packing List Across Different Generations
Unit 2 Food with Surprising Origins
Unit 3 China Is the Second Largest Home to AI Enterprises
Unit 4 Women Are Actually Better Drivers？
Unit 5 Chinese Cities Rank Among Ten Most Expensive Cities
Unit 6 American Company Offers "Shared-Nannies"
Unit 7 "Dumb Phones" Gain Its Popularity Again
Unit 8 Japan Railway Apologizes for a 25-Second Early Departure
Further Reading
Why Coke and Pepsi Taste So Different？
Mahjong Has Been Named Formally as a Sixth International Mind Sport
Chapter Four China at a Glance
Unit 1 Beihai Park
Unit 2 National Museum of China
Unit 3 Hangzhou
Unit 4 Dumplings
Unit 5 Chinese Beijing Opera
Unit 6 The Four Treasures of the Study
Unit 7 China's High-Speed Railway
Unit 8 Bicycle
Further Reading
Han Suyin's China(Excerpts)
My Country and My People(Excerpts)
Appendix Sample Essays
Sample 1