Contents 1
Lesson One 1
Text:Christmas Day in the Morning 1
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 36
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 73
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 FrightAnonymous 105
Word Study:turn,do 115
Grammar:1．Infinitives as Subject 130
2．Passive Infinitives 131
4．Concessive Clauses Denoting Contrast 132
3．The Subjunctive in Reporting Suggestions 132
Lesson Five 142
Text:Beauty is Truth 142
by Anna Guest 142
Word Study:leave,look 153
Grammar:1．Present Participles as Adverbial Modifiers 165
2．Infinitives of Result 167
Lesson Six 179
Text:Button,Button 179
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
Tcxt:Twelve Angry Men(Part One) 215
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) 267
by Reginald Rose 267
Word Study:set,run 287
Grammar:1．Infinitive and Present Participle as ObjectComplement 302
2．Modals plus the Perfect Infinitives 304
Text:Pompeii 317
by Robert Silverburg 317
Lesson Nine 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 353
by Stephen Leacock 353
Word Study:break,call 365
Grammar:1．Impersonal It 376
2．More About Comparison 377
by Gilbert Highet 386
Lesson Eleven 386
Text:Diogenes and Alexander 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 427
by Caskie Stinnett 427
Word Study:bring,check 437
Grammar:1．Inversion(2) 454
2．More About Appositive Clauses 455
by George Kent 465
Lesson Thirteen 465
Text:Mr Imagination 465
Word Study:pull,give 478
Grammar:More on Modals;Object Complement 490
Lesson Fourteen 504
Text:The Odour of Cheese 504
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 540
by Ambrose Bierce 540
Word Study:lead,cover 550
Grammar:Sentences of Implied Condition 565
Lesson Sixteen 575
Text:The Oyster and the Pearl 575
by William Saroyan 575
Word Study:put,work 603
Grammar:Ellipsis and Rhetorical Questions 621
Lesson Seventeen 633
Text:Multinational Corporations 633
Word Study:catch,agree 643
Grammar:Exercise for Revision 657
VOCABULARY LIST 663