本册可供高等学校文科（非英语专业）二年级上学期使用。本教材是为高等学校文科学生学习基础英语而编写的，旨在帮助学生编好语音、词汇和语法的基本功，着重培养阅读、理解能力，兼顾听、说、译、写的能力。本册课文计有生词和词组669个，每课课文的后面有生词表和注释。

Lesson One
Text:The Present
Grammar:The Participle(II)
Word Study:write,give
Lesson Two
Test:Prophet of the Space Age
Grammar:I.The Present Perfect Continuous Tense
II.The Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Word Study:change,learn
Lesson Three
Test:A New World
Grammar:The Gerund(II)
Word Study:pass,think
Lesson Four
Text:Carve Her Name with Pride
Grammar:Ellipsis
Word Study:set,send
Lesson Five
Test:Does Travel Broaden the Mind?
Grammar:The Object Clause(II)
Word Study:hear,help
Lesson Six
Text:The Escaped Lunatic
Grammar:I.The Sequence of Tenses
II.Direct Speech and Indirect Speech(I)
Word Study:break,let
Revision Exercises(LL.1-6)
Lesson Seven
Test:The Strange Armies from the Sky
Grammar:Direct Speech and Indirect Speech(II)
Word Study:stop,seem
Lesson Eight
Test:The Open Boat
Grammar:I.The Appositive and the Appositive Clause
II.The Participial Absolute Construction
Word Study:call,watch
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