PartⅠ The Basic Knowledge 1 Unit 1 The Basic Characters of English for Special Purpose 1 1.1 The Characters of Language 1 1.2 The Characters of Grammar 2 1.3 The Characters of Words and Expressions 3 1.4 The Characters of Structure 4 Unit 2 The Translation of English for Special Purpose 6 2.1 Introduction 6 2.2 Contrast between English and Chinese 8 2.3 Selecting and Extending the Meaning of a Word 10 2.4 Method of Changing the Syntactical Functions 12 2.5 Methods of Adding and Omitting 14 2.6 Translation of Special Sentence Pattern 17 2.7 Translation of Long Sentence 21 2.8 Translation of Subordinate Clause 23 2.9 Translation about Quantity 25 Unit 3 Writing of Scientific and Technical Papers 27 3.1 Stylistic Rules of Papers 27 3.2 Title and Sign 28 3.3 Abstract 29 3.4 Writing and Organizing of the Main Text 32 Part Ⅱ Collections of English Literatures about Building Material45 Unit 1 Classification of Materials 45 Unit 2 Cement Science 49 Unit 3 Concrete Science 55 Unit 4 High Performance Concretes (HPC) 61 Unit 5 Admixtures 66 Unit 6 about High Performance Construction Materials 70 Unit 7 Prestressed Concrete 73 Unit 8 Principles of Polymer Modification for Cement Composites77 Unit 9 Smart Material 82 Unit 10 Modern Buildings and Structural Materials 85 Unit 11 Ceramic Fabrication Process: Conventional Routes toCeramics 89 Unit 12 Structure of Glass 93 Part Ⅲ The Reading Materials 96 Unit 1 Hydration Mechanism 96 Unit 2 Alkali-aggregate Reactions 100 Unit 3 Workability, Setting, Bleeding and Segregation 103 Unit 4 Concrete Science 107 Unit 5 Concrete as a Structural Material 109 Unit 6 Ceramic Materials:Definitions 112 Unit 7 the Introduction of Ceramic 115 Unit 8 Glass in Building 118 Part Ⅳ VOCABULARY 122 References 141