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Lesson One

 Text:Tom Meets with the Prince

 Dialogue:Asking the Way

 Grammar:Ⅰ.The Preposition

   Ⅱ.The Absolute Forms of the Possessive Pronoun

   Ⅲ.The Reflexive Pronoun

 Word Study:get,have

Lesson Two

 Text:Lost--A Coat

 Dialogue:Advice

 Grammar:The Present Perfect Tense

 Word Study:take,bring

Lesson Three

 Text:The Sea

 Dialogue:Weather

 Grammar:Ⅰ.The Degrees of Comparison of the Adjective and the Adverb

   Ⅱ.The Numeral

 Word Study:look,know

Lesson Four

 Text:The Taj Mahal

 Dialogue:At the Post Office

 Grammar:Ⅰ.The Voice

   Ⅱ.The Passive Voice(Ⅰ)

 Word Study:go,come

Lesson Five

 Text:All for the Wounded

 Dialogue:Illness

 Grammar:Ⅰ.Types of Sentences

   Ⅱ.The Adverbial Clause(Ⅰ)

 Word Study:turn,leave

Lesson Six

 Text:Britain

 Dialogue:A Telephone Call

 Grammar:The Object Clause(Ⅰ)

 Word Study:feel,hold

Revision Exercises(LL.1--6)

Lesson Seven

 Text:The Peace Rose(Ⅰ)

 Dialogue:Shopping

 Grammar:Ⅰ.The Attributive Clause(Ⅰ)

   Ⅱ.The Past Continuous Tense

 Word Study:tell,grow

Lesson Eight

 Text:The Peace Rose(Ⅱ)

 Dialogue:At the Barber Shop

 Grammar:Ⅰ.The Non-finite Forms of the Verb

   Ⅱ.The Infinitive(Ⅰ)

   Ⅲ.The Past Perfect Tense

 Word Study:see,hope

Lesson Nine

 Text:The Boston Tea Party

 Dialogue:At the Restaurant

 Grammar:Ⅰ.The Passive Voice(Ⅱ)

   Ⅱ.The Object Complement and the Subject Complement

 Word Study:make,spend

Lesson Ten

 Text:Bank Services

 Dialogue:Hobbies

 Grammar:The Infinitive(Ⅱ)

 Word Study:find,ask

Lesson Eleven

 Text:The Grateful Crane

 Dialogue:Making Vacation Plans

 Grammar:Ⅰ.The Participle(Ⅰ)

   Ⅱ.The Past Future Indefinite Tense

 Word Study:say,keep

Lesson Twelve

 Text:Sailing Round the World

 Dialogue:Seeing Someone Off

 Gramme:The Gerund(Ⅰ)

 Word Study:meet,begin

Revision Exercises(LL.7--12)

Supplementary Readings

 Ⅰ.The Prince's New Life Begins

 Ⅱ.Lost in,the Fog

 Ⅲ.Food from the Sea

 Ⅳ.The Lorelei

 Ⅴ.Dr.Bethune Apologized

 Ⅵ.Cambridge--The University Town

 Ⅶ.'Little Red Devils'

 Ⅷ.Over the Himalayas and Beyond

 Ⅸ.The Boycott

 Ⅹ.Early Days of the,Mail.

 Ⅺ.A Wise Judge

 Ⅻ.An Unknown Young Pilot

Appendix 1

 Irregular Verbs to Be Found in Book I and Book Ⅱ

Appendix 2

 Differences in British and American Spellings

Appendix 3

 Poems

Appendix 4

 Songs and Riddles

Appendix 5

 Vocabulary