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: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:Ⅰ．Parenthesis 118
Ⅱ．Inversion 120
Word Study:reach,rise 122
Lesson Eight 130
Text:Child Choking!Handle Code Three! 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
Supplementary Readings 213
Ⅰ．A Primer on the Thirties 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.Rooseveit 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