Lesson One

Text:Looking back on Eighty Years

Grammar:The Modal Verb(Ⅰ)

Word Study:read, like

Lesson Two

Text:My First Job

Grammar

Ⅰ.The Mood

Ⅱ.The Subjunctive Mood(Ⅰ)

Word Study:run,teach

Lesson Three

Text:Birth of a Forsyte

Grammar:The Subjunctive Mood(Ⅱ)

Word Study:decide,lend

Lesson Four

Text:Some Recent Changes in the English Language

Grammar:The Modal Verb (Ⅱ)

Word Study:form,judge

Lesson Five

Text:Cigarette Smoking and Cancer of the Lung

Grammar:The Uses of It

Word Study:fall,increase

Lesson Six

Text:Lady Hermits Who are Down but Not Out

Grammar:The Uses of As”

Word Study:offer,choose

Revision Exercises(LL.1—6)

Lesson Seven

Text:In the Antarctic

Grammar

Ⅰ.Parenthesis

Ⅱ.Inversion

Word Study: reach,rise

Text:Child Choking!Handle Code Three!

Lesson Eight

Grammar:Punctuation

Word Study:hand,remember

Lesson Nine

Text:Crime and Punishment in Britain

Word Study: show,intend

Lesson Ten

Text:Straight and Crooked Thinking

Word Study: work,cause

Lesson Eleven

Text:Every Man to His Post

Word Study: try,prepare

Lesson Twelve

Text:The Fall and Rise of U.S. Frugality

Word Study: raise,save

Revision Exercises(LL.7—12)

Ⅰ.A Primer on the Thirties

Supplementary Readings

Ⅱ.Floundering in the Typing Pool

Ⅲ. Don t Let it End this Way

Ⅳ.American Influence

Ⅴ.The Eagle Has Landed

Ⅵ.A Chinese Woman I Knew

Ⅶ.Clocks and Time

Ⅷ.Helen Keller

Ⅸ.The Long Arm

Ⅹ.Folklore

Ⅺ.President Franklin D.Roosevelt Asks for a Declaration of War Against Japan

Ⅻ.Some Economic Laws

Appendix 1 Word Formation

Appendix 2 An English-Chinese Bilingual List of Grammatical Terms

Appendix 3 Poems

Appendix 4 Proverbs

Appendix 5 Vocabulary