Selected readings of fine works in Enlish

　　Section One Fine Works on Current Issues
　　 Unit 1 Modern Technology and Life
　　 Lesson One The Rise of Baidu
　　 David Barboza
　　 Reading Skill One: Guessing the Meaning of Unknown
　　 Words from Context Clues (Part One)
　　 Lesson Two Striking a Balance between Privacy and Convenience
　　 Douglas C. Curling
　　 Lesson Three To Clone or Not to Clone, Is Than the Question?
　　 Supplementary Reading One
　　 Strategic Cost Management
　　 Unit 2 China in the Eyes of Westerners
　　 Lesson Four Shanghai's Boom: A Building Frenzy
　　 Howard W. French
　　 Reading Skill Two: Guessing the Meaning of Unknown
　　 Words from Context Clues (Part Two)
　　 Lesson Five China Competes with West in Aid to Its Neighbors
　　 Jane Perlez
　　 Supplementary Reading Two
　　 Chinese New Year--A Promise of Peace and Prosperity
　　 William N. Brown
　　 Unit 3 Glimpse of the West
　　 Lesson Six Political Parties in the United States
　　 Reading Skill Three : Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar
　　 Vocabulary from Word-formation
　　 Clues (compounding and conversion)
　　 Lesson Seven Christmas in New Zealand
　　 Supplementary Reading Three
　　 Impressions of America
　　 Oscar Wilde
　　 Unit 4 Wisdom in Life
　　 Lesson Eight The Shadows
　　 Bruce Hutchison
　　 Reading Skill Four : Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar
　　 Vocabulary from Word-formation
　　 Clues (stems, prefixes, and suffixes):
　　 Part One
　　 Lesson Nine Two Truths to Live By
　　 Alexander M. Schindler
　　 Supplementary Reading Four
　　 A Simple Truth about Happiness
　　 Dennis Prager
　　Section Two English and Chinese Classics
　　 Unit 5 English Essays
　　 Lesson Ten Text 1 Of Beauty
　　 Francis Bacon
　　 Text 2 Of Studies
　　 Francis Bacon
　　 Reading Skill Five: Guessing the Meaning of Unfamiliar
　　 Vocabulary from Word-formation Clues
　　 (stems, prefixes, and suffixes): Part Two
　　 Lesson Eleven The Acorn-Gatherer
　　 Richard Jefferics
　　 Supplementary Reading Five
　　 French and English
　　 G. K. Chesterton
　　 Unit 6 English Poems
　　 Lesson Twelve Poem 1 Sonnet 18
　　 William Shakespeare
　　 Poem 2 Song to Celia
　　 Ben Johnson
　　 Poem 3 A Red, Red Rose
　　 Robert Burns
　　 Reading Skill Six: Poem Appreciation
　　 Supplementary Reading Six
　　 Poem 1 Counsel to Girls
　　 Robert Herrick
　　 Poem 2 The Tyger
　　 William Bloke
　　 Poem 3 Daffodils
　　 William Wordsworth
　　 Unit 7 English Fictions
　　 Lesson Thirteen The Signalman
　　 Charles Dickens
　　 Reading Skill Seven: Sentence Study (Part 1): Comprehension
　　 of a Sentence by Reading It in
　　 Thought Groups
　　 Lesson Fourteen The Horse Dealer's Daughter
　　 D. H. Lawrence
　　 Lesson Fifteen Jane Eyre (Chapter Eight, Volume Two)
　　 Charlotte Bronte
　　 Supplementary Reading Seven
　　 Kew Gardens (Chapter 57)
　　 Virginia Woolf
　　 Unit 8 Fine Works by Chinese
　　 Lesson Sixteen The Religion of Good Citizenship
　　 Gu Hongming
　　 Reading Skill Eight: Sentence Study (Part 2): Comprehension
　　 of a Sentence by Structural Analysis
　　 Lesson Seventeen Farewell, Old Curiosity Shop
　　 Yiao Qian
　　 Appendix Keys for Reference