具体描述
作者简介
目录信息
Unit One
Text: The Gift of Magi
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Guessing Unknown Words from Context
Translation Techniques and Practice
Criteria of Translation
Writing Skills and Practice
Diction (1)
The Appropriate Word
Legal Reading Practice
The Characteristics of English Law
Unit Two
Text: Mysteries of the Sea
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Guessing Vocabulary from Word Analysis (part 1)
Translation Techniques and Practice
Diction (1)
Writing Skills and Practice
Diction (2)
The Exact Word (1)
Legal Reading Practice
Case Study: Miller v Jackson
Unit Three
Text: It Was a Good Bam
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Guessing Vocabulary from Word Analysis (part 11)
Translation Techniques and Practice
Diction (2)
Writing Skills and Practice
Diction (3)
The Exact Word (2)
Legal Reading Practice
Classifications of Law
Unit Four
Text: A Good Heart to Lean On
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Sentence Comprehension (part 1)
Translation Techniques and Practice
Diction (3)
Writing Skills and Practice
Diction (4)
The Idiomatic Word
Legal Reading Practice
Substantive and Procedural Law
Five
Unit Text: Superstitious? Here's Why?
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Sentence Comprehension (part 11)
Translation Techniques and Practice
Conversion (1)
Writing Skills and Practice
The Sentences (1)
Types of Sentences
Legal Reading Practice
The British Constitution
Unit Six
Text: Get Your Best Deal
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Find the Subject of a Paragraph
Translation Techniques and Practice
Conversion (2)
Writing Skills and Practice
The Sentences (2)
Sentence Unity
Legal Reading Practice
The Hierarchy of the Courts
Unit Seven
Text: Take the Happiness Test
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Reading for Main Ideas
Translation Techniques and Practice
Amplification
Writing Skills and Practice
The Sentences (3)
Sentence Coherence (1)
Legal Reading Practice
Classification of the Courts
Unit Eight
Text: You Don't Have to Be Perfect
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Drawing Inferences
Translation Techniques and Practice
Omission
Writing Skills and Practice
The Sentences (4)
Sentence Coherence (2)
Legal Reading Practice
The Criminal Courts
Unit Nine
Text: Companionship of Books
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
Translation Techniques and Practice
Inversion
Writing Skills and Practice
The Paragraph (1)
Paragraph Unity
Legal Reading Practice
Tribunals and Arbitration
Unit Ten
Text: Living Humanism
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Building an Argument and Prediction
Translation Techniques and Practice
Negation
Writing Skills and Practice
The Paragraph (2)
Paragraph Coherence
Legal Reading Practice
The Judicial Hierarchy
Unit Eleven
Text: The Death Penalty
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Reading for Full Understanding
Translation Techniques and Practice
Division
Writing Skills and Practice
The Paragraph (3)
Paragraph Development (1)
Legal Reading Practice
Introduction to Contract
Unit Twelve
Text: Modem Constitution
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Skimming
Translation Techniques and Practice
Subordination
Writing Skills and Practice
The Paragraph (4)
Paragraph Development (2)
Legal Reading Practice
Offer and Acceptance
Unit Thirteen
Text: The Law of Negligence
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Scanning
Translation Techniques and Practice
The Question of "Translatability" or "Untranslatability'
Writing Skills and Practice
The Whole Composition (1)
Steps in Writing a Composition
Legal Reading Practice
The Nature of Crime
Unit Fourteen
Text: Federalism - The Basic Structure of American Govemment
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Identifying Referents
Translation Techniques and Practice
Methods in the Handling of Difficult Sentences'
Writing Skills and Practice
The Whole Composition (2)
Organization
Legal Reading Practice
Actus reus
Unit Fifteen
Text: The Structure of the System of the United States
Study & Practice
Reading Skills and Practice
Using the Reading Skills in Combination
Translation Techniques and Practice
A "3 - fold Analysis
Writing Skills and Practice
The Whole Composition (3)
Good Writing
Legal Reading Practice
Mens rea
Test One
Test Two
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