内 容 提 要
本书编写时严格遵守了《非英语专业研究生英语教学大纲》规定的教学内容、目的和要求，内容主要突出“读”和“写”。除了课文后面附有的生词和双解注释之后，还着重编写了**练习，并附上 Text B和 7篇科技读物、*后编排了写作内容、上册的写作内容**突出 basic writing（sentence skills），涵盖 10个方面内容。每一项包括写作理论指导、实例演绎和写作练习。

Unit 0ne
Text A Hong Kong——Wonders Never Cease
Text B Great Changes in Macao
Basic Writing Sentence Fragments
Unit TwO
Text A Fool’S Paradise
Text B A Clean，Well lighted Place
Basic Writing Run—on Sentences
Unit Three
Text A A Speech of Louis V．Gerstner，Jr．，Chairman and CEO of IBM in Beijing
Text B The Coming Chinese Century Big，Rich，and a Force tO Be Reckoned with
Basic Writing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Unit Four
Text A The Day the "Unsinkable"Titanic Went Down
Text B A Love Story
Basic Writing Parallel Construction
Unit Five
Text A A Scientist Looks at Tomorrow
Text B New Nuclear Weapons Research Proceeding at Furious Pace
Basic Writing Wordiness
Unit Six
Text A Can This Marriage Be Saved? Part I: Kate Talks First
Text B Can This Marriage Be Saved? Part II: Peter's Turn to Talk
Basic Writing Sentence Emphasis
Unit Seven
Text A Three Days to See
Text B The Last Leaf
Basic Writing Sentence Variety
Unit Eight
Text A Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U. S. S. R
Text B Inaugural Address
Basic Writing Internal Structure of a Paragraph
Unit Nine
Text A The Unhappy American Way
Text B The Tragedy of Old Age in America
Basic Writing Developing the Paragraph
Unit Ten
Supplementary Readings