Contents

Unit 1 　Language

Text 1　Babies Prove Sound Learners

Text 2　Language and Identity

Text 3　Multilingual Identity

Unit 2 　Culture

Text 1　The Harlem Renaissance

Text 2　I Am an African

Unit 3 　Literature

Text 1　Ode on a Grecian Urn

Text 2　Two Views of the River

Text 3　The Gift of the Magi

Text 4　Meet William Shakespeare

Text 5　The Portrait of Dorian Gray

Text 6　From a Voyage to Lilliput

Text 7　Homeless

Text 8　The Story of an Hour

Text 9　Superiority

Text 10　A Huge Black Umbrella

Text 11　Nature

Unit 4 　Society

Text 1　Neat People vs Sloppy People

Text 2　Your Negative Attitude Can Hurt Your Career

Text 3　A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Text 4　Living Well, Living Good

Unit 5 　Philosophy

Text 1　The Art of Genius: Six Ways to Think Like Einstein

Text 2　To See Not See

Text 3　What Is Creative Thinking?

Unit 6 　Ecology

Text 1　Britains Eden

Text 2　Living Treasure

Answers for Reference