1 1
(A)Spectator Sports 1
Different Forms of Writing 12
(Ⅰ)Avoiding Illogical or Incomplete Comparisons 14
(Ⅱ)Sentence Reduction 15
(B)Tennis as a Major Sport 17
(C)Origin of Dancing 24
(A)Western Manners 27
2 27
Distinguishing Between Main Idea and Details(Ⅰ) 39
(Ⅰ)Taking Care of the Voice 41
(Ⅱ)Cutting off Unnecessary Words or Phrases 42
(B)School Manners 43
(C)Table Manners 50
3 54
(A)The Vatican City 54
Distinguishing Between Main Idea and Details(Ⅱ) 68
(Ⅰ)Watching out for Modifiers 70
(Ⅱ)Appositives 71
(B)Leaving Home 72
(C)Contrasts in Living Standards 78
4 83
(A)Women in Combat？ 83
Inside the Paragraph(Ⅰ) 94
(Ⅰ)Infinitive with or Without“To” 96
(Ⅱ)Using Parallel Structure 97
(B)Calling for Equality with Men 99
(C)Female Roles in Britain 105
5 109
(A)Air Pollution 109
Inside the Paragraph(Ⅱ) 120
(Ⅰ)To V or V-ing 122
(Ⅱ)Repeating Important Words 123
(B)Waste Disposal 124
(C)How Doctors Look at Death 131
6 134
(A)Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt 134
(B)Underwater Treasure 145
Review Exercises(Ⅰ) 152
7 159
(A)The Credit Union Loan 159
Inside the Paragraph(Ⅲ) 170
Writing a Topic Sentence 172
(B)The Stock Market 175
(C)What Is a Patent？ 180
(A)Problems of the Computer Age 184
8 184
Inside the Paragraph(Ⅳ) 196
Taking Care of Controlling Ideas 199
(B)Say AAAH...for the Computer 202
(C)Hello，I’m Doctor Computer 208
9 213
(A)What Is REM(Rapid Eye Movement)Sleep？ 213
Inside the Paragraph(Ⅴ) 226
Place of a Topic Sentence 228
(B)Hypnosis 230
(C)Have You Seen a UFO？ 237
10 240
(A)Museums in the Modern World 240
Inside the Paragraph(Ⅵ) 252
Paragraph Unity 255
(B)Reuters—the Oldest News Service in the World(Ⅰ) 256
(C)Reuters—the Oldest News Service in the World(Ⅱ) 263
11 267
(A)Alfred Nobel—a Man of Contrasts 267
Matching Verbal and Non-verbal Information 280
Paragraph Coherence 283
(B)Alexander Graham Bell(Ⅰ) 286
(C)Alexander Graham Bell(Ⅱ) 294
12 298
(A)Communication 298
(B)To Measure the Stars 310
Review Exercises(Ⅱ) 317
Supplementary Reading 325
Glossary 357
List of Phrases and Expressions 384