Unit 1 Ways of Learning Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A Learning Chinese-Styls Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B Children and Money Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking practice: Group Discussion Practical Writing: Writing Notices Unit 2 Values Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A A Life Full of Riches Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B The Man is America Down Home Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking Practice: Group Discussion Essay Writing: Bill Gates as a Great Philanthropist Unit 3 The Generation Gap Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A Father Knows Better Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking Practice: Acting out the Play Practical Writing: Writing Posters Unit 4 The Virtual World Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A A Virtual Life Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B Mothers Mad about the Internuts Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking Practice: Group Discussion Practical Writing: Writing Email Messages Test Yourself (Units 1-4) Unit 5 Overcoming Obstacles Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A True Height Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B Fourteen Steps Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking Practice: Group Discussion Essay writing: The Change in Hal Manwaring Unit 6 Women Half the Sky Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A A Woman Can Learn Anything a Man Can Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B Beginning Anew Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking Practice: Group Discussion Practical Writing: Devising Questionnaires Unit 7 Learning about English Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A The Glorious Messiness of English Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B The Role of English in the 21st Century Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking Practice: Group Discussion Essay Writing: Information Transfer Unit 8 Protecting Our Environment Part Ⅰ Listening Task Listening Practice Part Ⅱ Reading Task Text A A Fable for Tomorrow Part Ⅲ Home Reading Task Text B Excerpts from Silent Spring Part Ⅳ Comprehensive Language Practice Speaking Practice: Mock Debate Essay Writing My Thoughts on Environmental Protection Test Youreslf(Units 5-8) Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exereises in Parts Ⅰ,Ⅲ,Ⅳ Appendix Ⅱ Tape Scripts and Key to Test Papers Appendix Ⅲ Glossary