Lesson One 1
TEXT Salvation&By Langston Hughes 1
WORD STUDY：surround，strike，bury，bear 7
EXERCISES 10
Lesson Two 19
TEXT The Game of the Name&By Peter Farb 19
WORD STUDY：assume，oblige，identify，suspend 24
EXERCISES 27
Lesson Three 37
TEXT Thinking of Words&By Randolph Quirk 37
WORD STUDY：equip，drop，slip，agree 43
EXERCISES 45
Lesson Four 55
TEXT 38 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police&By Martin Gansberg 55
WORD STUDY：seek，deliberate，exception，involve 61
EXERCISES 64
Lesson Five 74
TEXT What Body Language Can Tell You That Words Cannot&By David Givens 74
WORD STUDY：approach，indicate，dominate，re-cognize 78
EXERCISES 83
Lesson Six 95
TEXT Americans and the Land&By John Steinbeck 95
WORD STUDY：wonder，persist，conduct，maintain 102
EXERCISES 106
Lesson Seven 117
TEXT Mental Depression：The Recurring Night-mare&By Jane E.Brody 117
WORD STUDY：experience，lift，provoke，perform 122
EXERCISES 125
Lesson Eight 134
TEXT Small Kicks in Superland&By Russell Baker 134
WORD STUDY：suspect，mix，urge，express 140
EXERCISES 142
Revision One（Lesson One - Lesson Eight） 153
Lesson Nine 160
TEXT Appetite&By Laurie Lee 160
WORD STUDY：satisfy，perceive，exhaust，deny 166
EXERCISES 169
Lesson Ten 179
TEXT What Is It Like to Be Poor ？&By George Orwell 179
WORD STUDY：compticate，reeuce，admit，mind 187
EXERCISES 190
Lesson Eleven 201
TEXT Befriending&By John Nicholson 201
WORD STUDY：exclude，apply，remove，confirm 207
EXERCISES 211
Lesson Twelve 223
TEXT Dull London&By David H.Lawrence 223
WORD STUDY：sink，matter，haunt，doubt 230
EXERCISES 233
Lesson Thirteen 242
TEXT At the Indian Camp&By Sheila Burnford 242
WORD STUDY：contain，hurt，appear，suffer 250
EXERCISES 253
Lesson Fourteen 265
TEXT The Musicians&By John Hay 265
WORD STUDY：sound，embody，relieve，lack 272
EXERCISES 275
Lesson Fifteen 285
TEXT Tess of the D’Urbervilles&By an unknown author 285
WORD STUDY：intense，character，imagine，coin-cide 292
EXERCISES 295
Lesson Sixteen 304
TEXT She’s an Unwilling Tool of Middleclass-dom&By Marie C.Allen 304
WORD STUDY：complete，design，consume，con clude 312
EXERCISES 315
Revision Two（Lesson Nine—Lesson Sixteen） 325
Lesson Seventeen 332
TEXT What Makes Waves&By Rachel Carson 332
WORD STUDY：sweep，stir，confuse，determine 338
EXERCISES 341
Lasson Eighteen 350
TEXT Two Poems 350
a.Upon Westminster Bridge&By William Wordsworth 350
b.The Road Not Taken&By Robert Frost 351
WORD STUDY：bend，claim，touch，bare 354
EXERCISES 357
APPENDIX Ⅰ.Vocabulary 365
APPENDIX Ⅱ.A General List of Idioms and Expres-sions 381