Unit 1
Part Ⅰ INTEGRATED COURSE
Text A We’re Raising Children, Not Flowers! Ⅰ
Text B We’re Raising Children, Not Flowers! Ⅱ
Part Ⅱ READING TRAINING
The Legacy
Part Ⅲ WORKPLACE CONTEXT
Products and Services
Part Ⅳ WRITING WORK
How to Make a Topic Sentence
Part Ⅴ TRANSLATION SKILLS
Unit 2
Part Ⅰ INTEGRATED COURSE
Text A Window
Text B Home Sickness
Part Ⅱ READING TRAINING
Interesting Dining Experiences in the United States
Part Ⅲ WORKPLACE CONTEXT
Money
Part Ⅳ WRITING WORK
Description & Definition
Part Ⅴ TRANSLATION SKILLS
Unit 3
Part Ⅰ INTEGRATED COURSE
Text A The Boy at the Track
Text B Babes in the Woods
Part Ⅱ READING TRAINING
The True Love, my Daughter
Part Ⅲ WORKPLACE CONTEXT
Marketing
Part Ⅳ WRITING WORK
Exemplification, Listing & Classification
Part Ⅴ TRANSLATION SKILLS
Unit 4
Part Ⅰ INTEGRATED COURSE
Text A Surf’s Up!
Text B Festivals
Part Ⅱ READING TRAINING
The Internet, Is It a Boon or a Bane?
Part Ⅲ WORKPLACE CONTEXT
E-Business
Part Ⅳ WRITING WORK
Comparison & Contrast
Part Ⅴ TRANSLATION SKILLS
Test 1
Unit 5
Part Ⅰ INTEGRATED COURSE
Text A The Gift of Understanding Ⅰ
Text B The Gift of Understanding Ⅱ
Part Ⅱ READING TRAINING
Will We Travel to the Stars?
Part Ⅲ WORKPLACE CONTEXT
Placing an Order
Part Ⅳ WRITING WORK
Explanation of Causes and Reasons
Part Ⅴ TRANSLATION SKILLS
Unit 6
Part Ⅰ INTEGRATED COURSE
Text A A Man Who Had No EyesⅠ
內容試閱：
Part I INTEGRATED COURSE
Text A We’re Raising Children, Not Flowers! Ⅰ
David, my next-door neighbor, has two young kids aged five and seven. One day he was teaching his seven-year-old son Kelly how to push the lawn mower around the yard. As he was teaching him how to turn the mower around at the end of the lawn, his wife, Jan, called to him to ask a question. As David turned to answer the question, Kelly pushed the lawn mower right through the flowerbed at the edge of the lawn—leaving a two-foot wide path leveled to the ground.
When David turned back around and saw what had happened, he began to lose control. David had put a lot of time and effort into making those flowerbeds the envy of the neighborhood. As he began to raise his voice to his son, Jan walked quickly over to him, put her hand on his shoulder and said, “David, please remember… we’re raising children, not flowers!”
Jan reminded me how important it is as a parent to remember our priorities. Kids and their self-esteem are more important than any physical object they might break or destroy. The windowpane shattered by a baseball, a lamp knocked over by a careless child, or a plate dropped in the kitchen is already broken. The flowers are already dead. We must remember not to add to the destruction by breaking a child’s spirit and deadening his sense of liveliness.
I was buying a sport coat a few weeks ago and Mark Michaels, the owner of the store, and I was discussing parenting. He told me that while he and his wife and sevenyear-old daughter were out for dinner, his daughter knocked over her water glass. After the water was cleaned up without any recriminating remarks from her parents, she looked up and said, “You know, I really want to thank you for not being like other parents. Most of my friends’ parents would have yelled at them and given them a lecture about paying more attention. Thanks for not doing that!”
Once, when I was having dinner with some friends, a similar incident happened. Their five-year-old son knocked over a glass of milk at the dinner table. When they immediately started in on him, I intentionally knocked my glass over, too. When I started to explain how I still knock things over even at the age of 48, the boy started to beam and the parents seemingly got the message and backed off. How easy it is to forget that we are all still learning.
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