CONTENTS 1
Unit One：CHANGING PATTERNS OF BE HAVIOR 1
Lesson One：Seeking Advice 1
Reverse Psychological Verbs 17
Lesson Two：Folk-Life Festival：The Celebra-tion of Hands 19
Object Clauses Introduced by that 29
Negative Raising 30
Lesson Three：Four Choices for Young Peo-ple 32
Object Clauses with Infinitives 43
Object Clauses with Gerunds 46
Unit Two：THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT 48
Lesson Four：Motion Pictures 48
Noun Compounds 57
Lesson Five：The“American Musical” 61
Compounds of a Verb＋Particle or a Particle＋Verb 71
Genitive Compounds 72
Lesson Six：Rock Superstars：What Do They Tell Us About Our-selves and Our Society？ 75
Noun Compounds 85
Lesson Seven：The Art of the Skyscraper 90
Noun Adjuncts 100
Noun Compounds 102
Review of Compounds 103
Unit Three：NEW DIRECTIONS IN EDUCATION 104
Lesso n Eight：A New Lease on Life：Educa-tion for Mature Women 104
Noun Clauses：Alternatives with whether 115
Lesson Nine： Making It in America：Puerto Ricans Attend College 120
Clauses with whoever and whatever 130
Clauses with whenever and wherever 132
Lesson Ten： Education Indian-Style：A Hap-Py School at Rough Rock 134
Content Clauses after Verb-Noun Pairs 144
Unit Four：OUR CHANGING LANGUAGE 147
Lesson Eleven：Who Uses English？ 147
Tag Questions（A Review） 157
Lesson Twelve：A Conversation on British and American English 162
Shortened Questions 174
Negative Shortened Questions 176
Lesson Thirteen：Where Do All the New Words Come From？ 178
Special Tag Questions 190
Questions Meaning“I’m Lis-tening” 191
Lesson Fou rteen：Variety and Style in Language 193
Special Tag Questions 207
Short Responses with too，so，either，neither 209
Unit Five：VIEWS OF AMERICA 211
Lesson Fifteen：Reverence for the Earth 211
Request Clauses after Verbs 222
Negated Request Clauses after Verbs 224
Lesson Sixteen：I Have a Dream 226
Request Clauses after Adjectives 236
Infinitive Clauses 237
Lesson Seventeen：The Inaugural Address 239
Clauses after Nouns of Request 249
Parallelism 251
参考译文 253