CONTENTS 1
Part One 1
Vocabulary 1
PRELIMINARY LESSONS 1
Part Two 7
Sentence Patterns 7
Part Three 14
Grammar 14
UNIT ONE 42
Text A Personal Letter and a Reply 42
Proverb 46
Dialogue At the Post Office 46
Letter Writing 54
Reading Material Letters of lnvitation with Replies,etc 63
UNIT TWO 71
Text Energy——a World-wide Problem 71
Proverb 74
Dialogue At the Doctor's Office 74
Grammar The Noun Clause 84
Reading Material The Population Explosion 94
UNIT THREE 99
Text The Story of Jazz 99
Proverb 102
Dialogue Radio and Television 102
Grammar The Attributive Clause 112
Reading Material Gold! 126
Text A Cycle of Cathay 131
UNIT FOUR……………………………………………13l 131
Proverb 134
Dialogue Sight-seeing 134
Grammar The Abverbial Clause 142
Reading Material Huangshan:Wonderland on Earth 158
REVISION EXERCISES(Unit One——Unit Four) 164
UNIT FIVE 183
Text My Father Made a Decision 183
Dialogue Telephoning 187
Proverb 187
Grammar The Subjunctive Mood 197
Reading Material My Father Was Discharged 211
UNIT SIX 216
Text Charlie Chaplin 216
Proverb 220
Dialogue At the Library 220
Grammar The Use of It,That and As 229
Reading Material Alfred Nobel 239
UNIT SEVEN 244
Text A Piece of String(1) 244
Proverb 248
Dialogue At a Restaurant 248
Grammar Ellipsis,Emphasis and Inversion 257
Reading Material The Chameleon 272
UNIT EIGHT 279
Text A Piece of string(Ⅱ) 279
Proverb 285
Dialogue At the Hotel 285
Grammar Punctuation 294
Reading Material The Hoop 311
REVISION EXERCISES(Unit Five——Unit Eight) 317
APPENDIXES 333
1．Words and Expressions Used in Some Situations 333
2．Word Building 340
3．Vocabulary 347