该书为高等师院校英语专业合英语教材第四册,供二年级学生第二学期使用全书有16课和2套复习题。该书具有如下特点:课文以论说文为主;词汇量丰富,在级以上;学与练相辅相成;练习围绕课文内和语言现象设计,形式灵活。该由经验丰富的教学者编写审校而成,是一本**的高等学校教材。
本册教材中的课文以论文为主。大部分文章出自名家之手,题材广泛,语言活泼,富有生活气息,且易于模仿。
本书的写作部分集中练习正规书信。一般来说,商业信件较正工,所以,练习中供学生模仿的部分样件是商业信件。
本书为学生准备参加和期中和期末考试安排了两套复习题。

Unit 1 TEXT Every person Has the Ritht to Fail
FUNCTION:Reminding
WORD STUDY:promotion,prone,orientation,demonstrate
GRAMMAR:Anticipatory IT
Unit 2 TEXT: Going First Class
FUNCTION:Saying What Yon Hope Will Hpaaen
WORD STUDY:accomplish,preferece,correspondence,eliminate
GRAMMAR: Infinitive or-ing
Unit 3 TEXT: The Road to Happiness
FUNCTION:Giving someone Your General Good Wishes
WORD STUDY:pursue,favourable,alternation,suuplement
GRAMMAR:Pronouns
Unit 4 TEXT: Conversation prfitable and Pleausuable
FUNCTION:Asking someone to say something Again
WORD STUDY:particjpan,repetition,digress,indulge
Unit 5 TEXT: The English and the Americans
FUNCTION:Comparing
WORD STUDY:entitle,implication,strain,irritation
CRAMMAR:Prepositions
Unit 6 TEXT: Cultural conflict
FUNCTION:Saying You Are Excited
WORD STUDY:influence,manifestation,pprtray,suppose
GRAMMAR:Adverbials
Unit 7 TEXT: Come Across with the Facts
FUNCTION:Asking about Remembering
WORD STUDY:demand,regard,dedicate,abuse
CRAMMAR:Substitution
Unit 8 TEXT: The Learner as Reosource
FUNCTION:Saying You as Resource
WORD STUDY:contuive,sustaing,abolish,denmolish
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Quiz One(1-8)
Unit 9 TXST: How to Read a Dictionary
Unit 10 TXST: The Story of an Hour
Unit 11 TXST: English Names
Unit 12 TXST: To,Lie,or Not to lie
Unit 13 TXST: Two Turths to Live by
Unit 14 TXST: Hibernation
Unit 15 TXST: The New Atlantis
Unit 16 TXST: A Social Event
Quiz Two(9-16)
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