Lesson Sixteen Pre-class Work Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below. Glossary abuse v. to treat sth. so badly that you begin to destroy it array n. an ~ of: a group or collection of things, usually arranged so...
Lesson Fifteen Pre-class Work Read the text a third time. Learn the new words and expressions listed below. Glossary aborted adj. stopped because it would be difficult and dangerous to continue 中途失...
Unit 14 TEXT I After Twenty Years Text The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The time was barely 10 o'c...
Unit 13 TEXT I Christmas Text That fall, before it was discovered that the soles of both my shoes were worn clear through, I still went to Sunday school. And one time the Sunday-school superintendent...
Unit 12 TEXT I A Winter to Remember Text According to the weather men last winter was one of the worst in living memory. We live in the depths of the country, and my whole family agree that it was cer...
Unit 11 TEXT I Shaka — King of the Zulus Text Shaka's military career started at about the same time as Napoleon's came to an end at Waterloo. Neither man had ever heard of the other, yet they had a...
Unit 10 TEXT I "Keep Class 2 Under Your Thumb" Text "You'll have to keep Class 2 under your thumb," said the headmaster. To make this clear, he showed me his own thumb; a huge thing, like a pocket cud...
Unit 5 DIALOGUE I Learning Chinese as a Foreign Language A: Hi, Xiaohua! B: Hi, David, how's everything? A: Good. So far so good, I mean. B: You've been in China for two months. How do you like your C...
Unit 4 DIALOGUE I Struggling with Taking Dictation A: Gosh, look at this, seventeen mistakes in my dictation exercise again! That's terrible. I'm really sick of the whole dictation business. B: Relax,...
Unit 3 DIALOGUE I A New Life on the University Campus Lu Hua goes back to her secondary school to visit Wang Laoshi, her former English teacher. Wang Laoshi asks her about her life and study in the En...