本书特点：
1.设计明快。本教科书装帧艺术，布局合理，使用方便。练习说明语简明易懂并标有序列号，重要的信息用表格或阴影等显著的方式标示。
2.内容新颖。本教科书选题广泛，内容涉及社会、政治、经济、科技等诸多方面，观点新，角度新。
3.结构合理。虽然复习贯穿于整个教材，但本书还特意在第四、八、十二章安排了专门的复习部分，并设有各种循序渐进练习，既可作为课内练习使用，也可作为课外作业或测验材料使用。
4.检测要点。每章的重要句型都有突出表示，帮助学生熟悉类似“托福”等标准化测试形式。多数章节设有“测试要点”，突出本章基本句型。第四、八、十二各章因包括若干章节的测试要点而略长于其他。学生熟悉标准化测试形式后，会在参加真正考试时，增加信心，减少焦虑。
5.参考附录。所有关键参考材料——包括发音规则、拼写规则、不规则动词是形式、动词+动名词/不定式、冠词的特殊用法等——均被囊括在附录内，以便查找使用。
6.每章末尾附有“学习指导”，分“导言”、“学习要点”和“答案”三部分。

CHAPTER One
Language and Learning
Review of Basic Structures and Verb Forms
TOPIC ONE The Sentence and Its Parts
TOPIC TWO The Simpel Tenses
TOPIC THREE The Comtinuous Tenses
TOPIC FOUR The Perfect and Perfect Continuous Tenses and Verb Tense Teview
TOPIC FIVE Modal Auxiliaries
focus on testing:verb tenses
CHAPTER two
Dauns and Modifiers
Nouns and Modifiers
TOPIC ONE Review of Nouns,Pronouns,and Possessive Adjectives
TOPIC TWO Indefinite Articles and Quantifiers
TOPIC THREE The Deffinite Article(1)
TOPIC FOUR The Deffinite Article(2)
TOPIC FOUR Problen Areas with Nouns
focus on testing:nouns usage
CHAPTER three
Man and Woman
Sentence Types and Sentence Problens
TOPIC ONE Commands and Exclanations
TOPIC TWO Compound Sentences
TOPIC THREE Transitions
TOPIC FOUR Complex Sentences
TOPIC FIVE Sentence Problens
focus on testing:compound and complex sentences
CHAPTER four
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CHAPTER five
CHAPTER six
CHAPTER seven
CHAPTER eight
CHAPTER nine
CHAPTER ten
CHAPTER eleven
CHAPTER twelve
Appendix
Index