Lesson 1: Text A: The Youngest Bank Robber / 1
Text B: A Robbery / 3
Conversation: A Robbery / 5
Grammar: The Past Participle / 6
Exercises (Past participles, perfect infinitives) / 7
辅导材料 / 9
Lesson 2: Text A: Grace Darling / 13
Text B: Florence Nightingale / 16
Conversation: In the Hospital / 18
Grammar: Use of “it” / 19
Exercises (Use of “it”, translation C-E, etc.) / 20
辅导材料 / 21
Lesson 3: Text A: The Letter / 26
Text B: The Story of Adam and Eve / 29
Conversation: American Holidays / 31
Grammar: Phrasal Verbs / 32
Exercises (Phrasal verbs, etc.) / 33
辅导材料 / 34
Lesson 4: Text A: Angel Falls / 38
Text B: Crossing a Continent / 41
Conversation: At the Airport / 43
Grammar: Conditional Sentences (Ⅰ) / 44
Exercises (Conditional sentences, etc.) / 46
辅导材料 / 48
Lesson 5: Text A: The Man Who Missed the Plane / 52
Text B: A Letter / 55
Conversation: Arriving in a New Country / 57
Grammar: Conditional Sentences (Ⅱ) / 58
Exercises (Conditional sentences, etc.) / 59
辅导材料 / 60
Lesson 6: Text A: Exploring the Ocean Depth / 65
Text B: The Sea / 68
Conversation: Going to a Conference / 70
Grammar: Passive Infinitive / 71
Exercises (The infinitive, -tion, etc.) / 72
辅导材料 / 74
Lesson 7: Text A: Skyscrapers / 79
Text B: Disneyland / 82
Conversation: Nuclear Power Stations / 84
Grammar: Attributive Use of the Participle / 85
Exercises (Participles, etc.) / 86
辅导材料 / 88
Lesson 8: Text A: Assassination of the Pope / 94
Text B: A Hijacking / 97
Conversation: At the Customs / 99
Grammar: Adverbial Use of the Participle / 100
Exercises (Participles, use of some verbs, etc.) / 101
辅导材料 / 103
Lesson 9: Text A: The Great Pyramid / 106
Text B: The Taj Mahal / 109
Conversation: At the Exhibition / 112
Grammar: Complex Object / 112
Exercises (Complex object, word study, etc.) / 113
辅导材料 / 116
Lesson 10: Text A: Leonardo da Vinci / 120
Text B: Beethoven / 123
Conversation: An Art Exhibition / 125
Grammar: Elliptical Sentences / 126
Exercises (Ellipsis, word study, etc.) / 127
辅导材料 / 129
Lesson 11: Text A: The French Revolution / 133
Text B: Napoleon Bonaparte / 136
Conversation: An Evening Together / 138
Grammar: Continuous Forms of the Infinitive / 139
Exercises (The infinitive, word study, etc.) / 140
辅导材料 / 142
Lesson 12: Text A: The Ancient City of Athens / 147
Text B: Alexander the Great / 150
Conversation: Going to Study Abroad / 153
Grammar: Appositive Clauses / 154
Exercises (Appositive clauses, have or get something done, word study, etc.) / 154
辅导材料 / 157
Lesson 13: Text A: The Roman Empire / 161
Text B: Pompeii / 163
Conversation: At a Restaurant / 166
Grammar: Passive and Perfect Gerund / 166
Exercises (The gerund, word study, etc.) / 168
辅导材料 / 170
Lesson 14: Text A: Christianity / 174
Text B: Gautama, the Buddha / 177
Conversation: At the Post Office / 180
Grammar: Use of Modal Verbs in Polite Speech / 180
Exercises (Modal verbs, -ness, -ment, etc.) / 181
辅导材料 / 183
Lesson 15: Text A: The Olympic Games in Ancient Greece / 188
Text B: The Olympic Games / 190
Conversation: Sports / 193
Grammar: Use of the Gerund as Subject and Predicative / 194
Exercises (The gerund, word study, etc.) / 195
辅导材料 / 197
Lesson 16: Text A: William Shakespeare / 201
Text B: Benjamin Franklin / 204
Conversation: Studying Abroad / 207
Grammar: Inverted Word Order / 207
Exercises (Inversion, so, neither, nor, word study, etc.) / 208
辅导材料 / 211
Lesson 17: Text A: Australia / 215
Text B: Brazil / 218
Conversation: Japan and France / 221
Grammar: Subject Clauses / 222
Exercises (Subject clauses, word study, etc.) / 223
辅导材料 / 225
Lesson 18: Text A: The Birth of a Volcano / 229
Text B: Terrible Earthquakes / 232
Conversation: A Job Interview / 235
Grammar: Object Clauses / 235
Exercises (Object clauses, indirect speech,word-building, etc.) / 236
辅导材料 / 238
Lesson 19: Text A: Our Food / 242
Text B: Vitamins / 245
Conversation: Seeing a Doctor / 248
Grammar: Punctuation (Ⅰ) / 248
Exercises (Punctuation, word-building, etc.) / 250
辅导材料 / 252
Lesson 20: Text A: Radio / 256
Text B: The Television Industry / 259
Conversation: Watching Television / 262
Grammar: Punctuation (Ⅱ) / 262
Exercises (Punctuation, -ly, word study, etc.) / 264
辅导材料 / 267
Lesson 21: Text A: Computers in Use / 271
Text B: Robots / 274
Conversation: Telecommunication / 277
Grammar: Prefixes / 277
Exercises (Word-building, word study, etc.) / 279
辅导材料 / 281
Lesson 22: Text A: Murder / 285
Text B: Robbery / 288
Conversation: Newspaper / 291
Grammar: Suffixes / 291
Exercises (Word-building, word study, etc.) / 293
辅导材料 / 295
Lesson 23: Text A: Corruption / 299
Text B: Protest Demonstration / 302
Conversation: Birth Control / 304
Grammar: Capitalization / 305
Exercises (Capitalization, phrasal verbs,word study,etc.) / 306
辅导材料 / 309
Lesson 24: Text A: A Business Letter / 314
Text B: Reply to the Letter / 315
Text C: A Letter from a United Commercial Agency / 316
Text D: Memorandum / 318
Conversation: At an Exhibition / 319
Grammar: Abbreviations / 319
Exercises (Punctuation, abbreviation,word study, etc.) / 324
辅导材料 / 327
Appendixes:
1.Conversations / 331
2.Material For Reproduction / 340
3.Supplementary Reading / 345
1)Poems / 345
2)Biographical Sketches / 349
3)Brief Histories of Some Countries / 352
4)Popular Science:The Moon / 355
Vocabulary (词汇表) / 357