本书每个单元均包含Reading、Writing、Translation和Weaving It Together四个部分。Reading部分包含两篇课文，配有Pre-Reading、Vocabulary、Reading Comprehension、Cloze、Paraphrase、Critical Thinking等练习，并提供了相关阅读技巧的总结；Writing和TransIation部分概括了写作和翻译技巧，并配有相应的练习；Weaving It Together则是对本单元内容的总结和拓展，起到了画龙点睛的作用。

Unit 1 Special Days
Reading 1: Birthdays Around the World
Reading 2: A Festival of Colors
Reading Skill: Identifying Supporting Ideas
Writing Skill: The Sentence | The Paragraph
Translation Skill: 冠词的翻译
Unit 2 Places
Reading 1: Venice: A Changing City
Reading 2: Life Is Good in Iceland
Reading Skill: Comparison and Contrast
Writing Skill: Adjectives | The Comparative Form of Adjectives | The Superlative Form of Adjectives
Translation Skill: 词性转译法
Unit 3 Ways to Health
Reading 1: Go to Sleep!
Reading 2: Laughing Out Loud
Reading Skill: Using Skimming and Scanning
Writing Skill: Using when
Translation Skill: more than的翻译
Unit 4 Customs
Reading 1: What to Name the Baby
Reading 2: Eat, Drink, and Know the Customs
Reading Skill: Identifying the Topic Sentence
Writing Skill: Common One-Word Prepositions | Prepositional Phrases
Translation Skill: 形式主语句的翻译
Unit 5 Food
Reading 1: The World's Most Popular Drink
Reading 2: Hold Your Nose and Eat!
Reading Skill: Identifying the Use of the Pronouns it and them
Writing Skill: Writing Instructions
Translation Skill: There be句型的翻译
Unit 6 Inventors and Their Inventions
Reading 1: Dinner Fresh from the Freezer
Reading 2: A Sharp Idea from King Gillette
Reading Skill: Noting Timelines
Writing Skill: Comparing Things with as...as | Using too and very with Adjectives
Translation Skill: 后置定语的翻译
Unit 7 Amazing People
Reading 1: Hayat Sindi: One Person Helps the World
Reading 2: A Life with Chimpanzees
Reading Skill: Recognizing Generalizations and Examples in Readings
Writing Skill: Writing About Someone's Life | Different Ways of Expressing Time
Translation Skill: 状语的翻译
Unit 8 Readings from Literature
Reading 1: The Shepherd's Boy
Reading 2: The Rain
Reading Skill: Using Context for Word Meanings
Writing Skill: Paraphrasing
Translation Skill: 动词时态的翻译