ContentsLesson One 1
Text HospitalsGrammar Basic Sentence PatternsLesson Two 11
Text Chinese MedicineGrammar The Simple Present and the Simple Past TensesLesson Three 22
Text What Should We Eat?Grammar The Future TensesLesson Four 31
Text Expecting:Longer Life-spansGrammar The Perfect TensesLesson Five 40
Text VitaminsGrammar The Continuous TensesLesson Six 48
Text Emergency CareGrammar Modal VerbsLesson Seven 59
Text Man Miraculously SurvivesGrammar The Passive VoiceLesson Eight 68
Text Biological ClocksGrammar The Comparative and Superlative Degrees of Adjectives and AdverbsLesson Nine 77
Text AIDS—The Killer DiseaseGrammar The Attributive Clause(Ⅰ)Lesson Ten 86
Text Computers in Health CareGrammar The Attributive Clause(Ⅱ)Lesson Eleven 95
Text Emotional IQGrammar Noun ClausesLesson Twelve 105
Text The Surgeon and SurgeryGrammar The Adverbial ClausesLesson Thirteen 116
Text The Search for New DrugsGrammar The InfinitiveLesson Fourteen 125
Text Organ Transplantation—A New Breakthrough in SurgeryGrammar The GerundLesson Fifteen 135
Text Mercy KillingGrammar The ParticipleLesson Sixteen 144
Text The Techniques of Genetic Engineering First Used on HumansGrammar The Subjunctive Mood(Ⅰ)Lesson Seventeen 153
Text The Patient s RecordGrammar The Subjunctive Mood(Ⅱ)Lesson Eighteen 161
Text A Vitamin E CapsulesB Anti-inflammation CapsuleGrammar The Usage of It课文参考译文 168
练习答案 182
Appendix 220
Vocabulary 224