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.What Is “Quick Fix Society”?

2.Faster or Slower？

3.Enjoy a Poem

Background Information

※Fast Roads in the U.S.

※Pennsylvania Dutch Town

※Cliff’s Notes

※Civil War

※Beethoven

※USA Today

Text Analysis

1.Theme

2.Structure

3.Questions

4.Discussion

Writing Devices:

Comparison-contrast, examples, rhetorical questions, repetition

Language Study

1.Word Study

advocate, antique, bicentennial, compress, condense, confederate, convenience, defer, digest, gorgeous, gratification, ignore, revitalize, symbolically, symphony, version

2.Phrases and Expressions

stuff with; agree with sb.; once upon a time, for a rainy day, some fast relief, as many; can’t wait to do sth.; get sth. over with; help out; linger over/on; more often than not; off the rack; put away; put brakes on; save sb. the trouble of doing sth.; save up

3.Grammar

V-ing form; the attributive modifiers

4.Word Formation

✔ Prefix—sur-

✔ Root—vit/viv

✔ Suffix— -ly

Extension

1.Oral Work

2.Quizzes

3.Writing

4.Listening Lab