Preface Unit One Section A Focus Reading Language By Ralph Waldo Emerson Section B Supplementary Reading Ⅰ Fable Ⅱ The Rhodora on Being Asked,Whence Is the Flower? Ⅲ Each and All Ⅳ I Become a Transparent Eyeball Ⅴ Maxims of Emerson Ⅵ The Pen and the Inkstand Ⅶ The American Scholar(Excerpt) Ⅷ Great Minds Think Alike Ⅸ Two Jokes Section C Suggested Reading Unit Two Section A Focus Reading The Story of Mankind(Excerpt) By Hendrik Willem van Loon Section B Supplementary Reading Ⅰ Some Chinese Legends Ⅱ The Tower of Babel Ⅲ Chinese Calligraphy Ⅳ A Joke Section C Suggested Reading Unit Three Unit Four Unit Five Unit Six Unit Seven Unit Eight Unit Nine Unit Ten Reference 后記