本章主要分为四部分，即热身活动与课文背景介绍，文本赏析，文本语言点的理解与运用，以及拓展阅读与思考活动，本单元的知识结构如下图所示。

Warm-up

1. Questions and Answers

2. College Humor

Background Information

1. Author

2. Aristotle, Chaucer, Bach

3. Dante, Homer, La Rochefoucauld

4. Virgil, Shakespeare

5. Neanderthal

Text Analysis

1. Theme

2. Structure

3. Discussion

Writing Devices

1. Language Style & Tone

2. Metaphor

3. Sentence Paraphrase

Language Study

1. Word Study

accomplishment; assume; certify; expose; faculty; generate; nevertheless; rear; species; suffice; fold; stuff; specimen; enroll; specialize; average; client; penetrate; shudder; pest; implicit

2. Phrases and Expressions

be fresh out of; sense of duty; go through; see to it that; go to the electric chair; do with; be exposed to; preside over; be out to do; The chances are that…; make money; be stuck for; to have no business doing; make contact; in essence; make… available

3. Grammar

Future Expressions; Correlative conjunctions (emphasizing coordinating conjunctions); Infinitive; as…so structure

4. Word Formation

Suffix—ize; Suffix—fy

Extension

1. Oral Work

2. Quizzes

3. Writing

4. Listening Lab