美高化学衔接手册

《美高化学衔接手册》是一本中英双语的化学学习读物，专为即将进入、或刚刚走进美国高中化学课堂的中国学生而写。从中文课堂切换到全英文课堂并不容易，难的往往不是化学本身，而是要同时跨过"语言"和"思维方式"两道坎--这本书正是来帮你跨过它们的。

它不堆砌需要死记的定义，而是带你想明白每个结论背后的"为什么"：原子为什么会成键、升温为什么让反应更快、血液为什么能稳住 pH。书中把核心英文术语与中文讲解并排嵌在一起、反复出现，直到你记牢；并用大量脚注拆解希腊语、拉丁语词根，让又长又难的化学单词终于变得好懂。每一章还配有逐步讲透的例题（含完整推理与单位核对）、全英文撰写的章末习题、清爽的手绘示意图，以及便于速查的附录。

全书十五章覆盖高中化学的完整脉络：物质与测量、原子结构与周期表、化学键、化学式与命名、气体、摩尔与化学计量、溶液与分子间作用力、热化学、反应速率、化学平衡、酸碱、氧化还原与电化学、元素家族、有机化学、实验技能。内容严格控制在高中水平，并与习题书《Practice to Mastery: U.S. High School Chemistry》逐章对应，是它"学"的伴侣--在这本书里把一章读懂，再到那本书里把同一章练熟。

无论你正准备出国留学，还是已经坐在全英文的化学课堂里，这本"衔接手册"都愿意陪你学得更清楚、更有底气。

A Bridge to U.S. High School Chemistry is a bilingual (Chinese-English) study companion written for Chinese students who are about to take-or have just started-chemistry in a U.S. high school. Moving from a Chinese classroom into an all-English one is hard, and the obstacle is rarely the chemistry itself: it is having to cross a language barrier and a way-of-thinking barrier at the same time. This book is built to help with both.

Rather than piling up definitions to memorize, every chapter focuses on the why behind each idea-why atoms bond, why warming a reaction speeds it up, why blood keeps its pH steady. Core English terms are embedded right alongside the Chinese explanations and repeated until they stick, and generous footnotes unpack the Greek and Latin roots that finally make long chemistry words make sense. Each topic is rounded out with step-by-step worked examples (complete with reasoning and unit checks), end-of-chapter exercises written entirely in English, clean hand-drawn diagrams, and quick-reference appendices.

Fifteen chapters cover the full high-school sequence: matter and measurement; atomic structure and the periodic table; chemical bonding; formulas and naming; gases; the mole and stoichiometry; solutions and intermolecular forces; thermochemistry; reaction rates; equilibrium; acids and bases; oxidation-reduction and electrochemistry; the element families; organic chemistry; and laboratory skills. Content stays at the high-school level and is designed as the "learn" companion to the practice book Practice to Mastery: U.S. High School Chemistry-read a chapter here to understand it, then drill the same chapter there to master it.

Whether you are preparing to study abroad or already sitting in an English-language chemistry class, this bridge is here to help you learn with clarity and confidence.