前言页 1
Lesson One 1
Text: Christmas Day in the Morning by Pearl S. Buck 1
Word Study: take, get 10
Grammar: 1. Infinitives（1） 24
2．I wish 25
Lesson Two 36
Text: The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde 36
Word Study: see, go 47
Grammar: 1. Noun + to infinitive 61
2．Inversion 62
3. Other Ways of Comparing Things 64
Lesson Three 73
Text: Clearing in the Sky by Jesse Stuart 73
Word Study: make, keep 82
Grammar: Infinitives of Purpose 96
Lesson Four 105
Text: Darken your Graying Hair, and Hide your Fright Anonymous 105
Word Study: turn, do 115
Grammar: 1. Infinitives as Subject 130
2．Passive Infinitives 131
3．The Subjunctive in Reporting Suggestions 132
4．Concessive Clauses Denoting Contrast 132
Lesson Five 142
Text: Beauty is Truth by Anna Guest 142
Word Study: leave, look 153
Grammar: 1. Present Participles as Adverbial Modifiers 164
2．Infinitives of Result 167
Lesson Six 179
Text: Button, Button by Richard Matheson 179
Word Study: draw, cut 191
Grammar: 1. The Past Participle as Attributive Modifier 204
2．The Past Participle as Predicative 206
Lesson Seven 215
Text: Twelve Angry Men（Part One）by Reginald Rose 215
Word Study: owe, help, come 237
Grammar: 1. The Gerund 251
2．The Verbal Noun 256
Lesson Eight 267
Text: Twelve Angry Men（Part Two）by Reginald Rose 267
Word Study: set, run 287
Grammar: 1. Infinitives and Present Participles as Object Complement 302
2．Modals plus Perfect Infinitives 304
Lesson Nine 317
Text: Pompeii by Robert Silverburg 317
Word Study: way, hand 328
Grammar: 1. The Past Participle as Adverbial Modifier 342
2．The Past Participle as Object Complement 344
Lesson Ten 353
Text: The Man in Asbestos by Stephen Leacock 353
Word Study: break, call 365
Grammar: 1. Impersonal It 376
2．More About Comparison 377
Lesson Eleven 386
Text: Diogenes and Alexander by Gilbert Highet 386
Word Study: account, show 398
Grammar: 1. The Present Participle as Attributive Modifier 411
2．More About Modals 413
Lesson Twelve 427
Text: Farewell, My Unlovely by Caskie Stinnett 427
Word Study: bring, check 437
Grammar: 1. Inversion（2） 454
2．More About Appositive Clauses 455
Text: Mr. Imagination by George Kent 465
Lesson Thirteen 465
Word Study: pull, give 478
Grammar: 1. Modals + Perfect Infinitives 490
2．Object Complement 492
Lesson Fourteen 504
Text: The Odour of Cheese by Jerome K. Jerome 504
Word Study: hold, carry 513
Grammar: Sentences of Unreal Condition 526
Lesson Fifteen 540
Text: A Horseman in the Sky by Ambrose Bierce 540
Word Study: lead, cover 550
Grammar: Sentences of Implied Condition 565
Lesson Sixteen 575
Text: The Oyster and the Pearl by William Saroyan 575
Word Study: put, work 603
Grammar: 1. Ellipsis 620
2．Rhetorical Questions 623
Lesson Seventeen 633
Text: Multinational Corporations 633
Word Study: catch, agree 643
Grammar: Exercise for Revision 657
VOCABULARY LIST 663