《ENGLISH BOOK 8》

Lesson One1

TEXT Kew GardensBy Virginia Woolf1

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text14

EXERCISES15

Lesson Two23

TEXT Community and Competition:Getting TogetherBy Philip E.Slater23

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text39

EXERCISES42

Lesson Three55

TEXT On the Impact of the Computer on SocietyBy Joseph Weizenbaum55

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text68

EXERCISES69

Lesson Four80

TEXT Politics and the American LanguageBy Arthur Schleisinger,Jr.80

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Strucutre of the Text95

EXERCISES100

Lesson Five117

TEXT A Free Man's WorshipBy Bertrand Russell117

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text133

EXERCISES137

Lesson Six148

TEXT'Prelude I'to a Literary Linguistic StylisticsBy M.H.Short148

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text162

EXERCISES165

Lesson Seven175

TEXT Home Is Where to Learn How to HateBy Leo Rosten175

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text185

EXERCISES189

Lesson Eight201

TEXT The Marks of an Educated ManBy Alan Simpson201

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text213

EXERCISES217

Lesson Nine232

TEXT The King of the BirdsBy Flannery O'Connor232

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text243

EXERCISES246

Lesson Ten256

TEXT The Nature of LiteratureBy Rene Wellek and Austin Warren256

NOTES ON READING:A General Discussion of the Style and Structure of the Text268

EXERCISES270

APPENDIX Ⅰ．Vocabulary281

APPENDIX Ⅱ．A General List of Idioms and Ex-pressions285