Lesson One 5
Text:Looking back on Eighty Years 5
Grammar:The Modal Verb(Ⅰ) 10
Word Study:read, like 16
Lesson Two 25
Text:My First Job 25
Grammar 30
Ⅰ.The Mood 30
Ⅱ.The Subjunctive Mood(Ⅰ) 30
Word Study:run,teach 33
Lesson Three 41
Text:Birth of a Forsyte 41
Grammar:The Subjunctive Mood(Ⅱ) 47
Word Study:decide,lend 50
Lesson Four 58
Text:Some Recent Changes in the English Language 58
Grammar:The Modal Verb (Ⅱ) 63
Word Study:form,judge 67
Lesson Five 75
Text:Cigarette Smoking and Cancer of the Lung 75
Grammar:The Uses of It 79
Word Study:fall,increase 82
Lesson Six 91
Text:Lady Hermits Who are Down but Not Out 91
Grammar:The Uses of As” 96
Word Study:offer,choose 98
Revision Exercises(LL.1—6) 106
Lesson Seven 114
Text:In the Antarctic 114
Grammar 118
Ⅰ.Parenthesis 118
Ⅱ.Inversion 120
Word Study: reach,rise 122
Text:Child Choking!Handle Code Three! 130
Lesson Eight 130
Grammar:Punctuation 134
Word Study:hand,remember 140
Lesson Nine 149
Text:Crime and Punishment in Britain 149
Word Study: show,intend 153
Lesson Ten 163
Text:Straight and Crooked Thinking 163
Word Study: work,cause 168
Lesson Eleven 176
Text:Every Man to His Post 176
Word Study: try,prepare 182
Lesson Twelve 190
Text:The Fall and Rise of U.S. Frugality 190
Word Study: raise,save 194
Revision Exercises(LL.7—12) 202
Ⅰ.A Primer on the Thirties 213
Supplementary Readings 213
Ⅱ.Floundering in the Typing Pool 215
Ⅲ. Don t Let it End this Way 217
Ⅳ.American Influence 219
Ⅴ.The Eagle Has Landed 221
Ⅵ.A Chinese Woman I Knew 223
Ⅶ.Clocks and Time 225
Ⅷ.Helen Keller 228
Ⅸ.The Long Arm 230
Ⅹ.Folklore 232
Ⅺ.President Franklin D.Roosevelt Asks for a Declaration of War Against Japan 234
Ⅻ.Some Economic Laws 236
Appendix 1 Word Formation 239
Appendix 2 An English-Chinese Bilingual List of Grammatical Terms 245
Appendix 3 Poems 250
Appendix 4 Proverbs 254
Appendix 5 Vocabulary 257