CONTENTS 1
UNIT ONE 1
Part A Sound Recognition 1
Part B Ⅰ On a London Bus 3
Ⅱ At a Bus Stop 5
UNIT TWO 10
Part A Understanding of Position 10
Ⅰ Where Shall We-Meet? 10
Ⅱ Where's Room 4? 11
Part B Ⅰ Sports 13
Ⅱ How Football Began 15
UNIT THREE 21
Part A How Much Is It? 21
Part B Ⅰ Going Shopping 24
Ⅱ What Size Curtains Do I Need? 27
UNIT FOUR 34
Part A Understanding of the Subjunctive Mood 34
Part B Ⅰ A Plan for London Traffic 36
Ⅱ You Should Have Left a Message 38
UNIT FIVE 42
Part A Guessing Words from Context 42
Part B Ⅰ She's Coming to See Us 46
Ⅱ Big Decisions 48
UNIT SIX 53
Part A Guessing Words from Context 53
Part B Ⅰ I've Got a Sore Throat 58
Ⅱ Visiting a Doctor 59
Part A Guessing Words from Context 66
UNIT SEVEN 66
Part B Ⅰ Permission to Use Computers 70
Ⅱ In a Restaurant 71
UNIT-EIGHT 75
Part A Guessing Words from Context 75
Part B Ⅰ Unusual Events 79
Ⅱ On a Flight 81
UNIT NINE 89
Part A Ⅰ Recognizing Place Names 89
Ⅱ Analyzing News Items 90
Part B Ⅰ Science Report:Rivers Under the Sahara Desert 92
Ⅱ Words and Their Stories:Hello 95
UNIT TEN 98
Part A Analyzing News Items 98
Ⅰ An Earthquake 98
Ⅱ A Resolution in China 100
Part B Ⅰ Science Report: 101
A Computer Helps a Paralyzed Person to Walk 101
Ⅱ Words and Their Stories:Yankee 104
Part A Future Tenses 110
UNIT ELEVEN 110
Part B Ⅰ FutureMan:LikeThis…? 112
Ⅱ Man's Firs tAttempts to Fly 115
UNIT TWELVE 121
Part A Adverbial Clauses 121
Part B Ⅰ I'm Worried About the Weather 124
Ⅱ Forecasting the Weather 126
Ⅲ Meteorology and Meteorologists 129
PartA Ⅰ Comparatives 133
UNIT THIRTEEN 133
Ⅱ Complex Transitive Verbs 135
PartB Ⅰ Where Shall I Put It? 136
Ⅱ Moving in 138
UNIT FOURTEEN 145
Part A Understanding of Reference 145
Part B Ⅰ I'm Enquiring About the Flat 149
Ⅱ A Friend in Need 151
Part A Guessing Jobs from Given Description 154
UNIT FIFTEEN 154
Part B Ⅰ Finley—a Town in England 156
Ⅱ The World's Largest Cities 158
UNIT SIXTEEN 161
Part A Review:Understanding of Direction 161
Ⅰ How to Get to Your House? 161
Ⅱ How to Get to the Cinema? 163
Part B Ⅰ Women's Lib 164
Ⅱ Women in England 166
Appendix Ⅰ Vocabulary 173
Ⅱ Phrases 187