Lesson One 1
Text：Christmas Day in the Morning 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 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 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 Fright Anonymous 105
Word Study：turn,do 115
Grammar：1．Infinitives as Subject 130
2．Passive Infinitives 131
3．The Subjunctive in Reporting Suggestions 132
4．Concessive Clauses Denoting Contrast 132
Lesson Five 142
Text：Beauty is Truth by Anna Guest 142
Word Study：leave,look 153
Grammar：1．Present Participles as Adverbial Modifiers 164
2．Infinitives of Result 167
Lesson Six 179
Text：Button,Button 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
Text：Twelve Angry Men(Part One)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)by Reginald Rose 267
Word Study：set,run 287
Grammar：1．Infinitives and Present Participles as Object Complement 302
2．Modals plus Perfect Infinitives 304
Lesson Nine 317
Text：Pompeii by Robert Silverburg 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 by Stephen Leacock 353
Word Study：break,call 365
Grammar：1．Impersonal It 376
2．More About Comparison 377
Lesson Eleven 386
Text：Diogenes and Alexander by Gilbert Highet 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 by Caskie Stinnett 427
Word Study：bring,check 437
Grammar：1．Inversion（2） 454
2．More About Appositive Clauses 455
Lesson Thirteen 465
Text：Mr.Imagination by George Kent 465
Word Study：pull,give 478
Grammar：1．Modals+Perfect Infinitives 490
2．Object Complement 492
Lesson Fourteen 504
Text：The Odour of Cheese 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 by Ambrose Bierce 540
Word Study：lead,cover 550
Grammar：Sentences of Implied Condition 565
Lesson Sixteen 575
Text：The Oyster and the Pearl by William Saroyan 575
Word Study：put,work 603
Grammar：1．Ellipsis 620
2．Rhetorical Questions 623
Lesson Seventeen 633
Text：Multinational Corporations 633
Word Study：catch,agree 643
Grammar：Exercise for Revision 657
VOCABULARY LIST 663