1

(A)Spectator Sports

Different Forms of Writing

(Ⅰ)Avoiding Illogical or Incomplete Comparisons

(Ⅱ)Sentence Reduction

(B)Tennis as a Major Sport

(C)Origin of Dancing

(A)Western Manners

2

Distinguishing Between Main Idea and Details(Ⅰ)

(Ⅰ)Taking Care of the Voice

(Ⅱ)Cutting off Unnecessary Words or Phrases

(B)School Manners

(C)Table Manners

3

(A)The Vatican City

Distinguishing Between Main Idea and Details(Ⅱ)

(Ⅰ)Watching out for Modifiers

(Ⅱ)Appositives

(B)Leaving Home

(C)Contrasts in Living Standards

4

(A)Women in Combat？

Inside the Paragraph(Ⅰ)

(Ⅰ)Infinitive with or Without“To”

(Ⅱ)Using Parallel Structure

(B)Calling for Equality with Men

(C)Female Roles in Britain

5

(A)Air Pollution

Inside the Paragraph(Ⅱ)

(Ⅰ)To V or V-ing

(Ⅱ)Repeating Important Words

(B)Waste Disposal

(C)How Doctors Look at Death

6

(A)Burial Customs in Ancient Egypt

(B)Underwater Treasure

Review Exercises(Ⅰ)

7

(A)The Credit Union Loan

Inside the Paragraph(Ⅲ)

Writing a Topic Sentence

(B)The Stock Market

(C)What Is a Patent？

(A)Problems of the Computer Age

8

Inside the Paragraph(Ⅳ)

Taking Care of Controlling Ideas

(B)Say AAAH...for the Computer

(C)Hello，I’m Doctor Computer

9

(A)What Is REM(Rapid Eye Movement)Sleep？

Inside the Paragraph(Ⅴ)

Place of a Topic Sentence

(B)Hypnosis

(C)Have You Seen a UFO？

10

(A)Museums in the Modern World

Inside the Paragraph(Ⅵ)

Paragraph Unity

(B)Reuters—the Oldest News Service in the World(Ⅰ)

(C)Reuters—the Oldest News Service in the World(Ⅱ)

11

(A)Alfred Nobel—a Man of Contrasts

Matching Verbal and Non-verbal Information

Paragraph Coherence

(B)Alexander Graham Bell(Ⅰ)

(C)Alexander Graham Bell(Ⅱ)

12

(A)Communication

(B)To Measure the Stars

Review Exercises(Ⅱ)

Supplementary Reading

Glossary

List of Phrases and Expressions