| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| A List of Figures and Tables | 第9-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-23页 |
| ·Status quo of college English grammar teaching | 第14-21页 |
| ·The purpose and significance of the study | 第21-22页 |
| ·The structure of the paper | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第23-34页 |
| ·Contrastive study | 第23-26页 |
| ·Definition of contrastive study | 第23-24页 |
| ·Contrastive study at home and abroad | 第24-26页 |
| ·Passives | 第26-34页 |
| ·Definitions of passives | 第26-31页 |
| ·Syntactic definition | 第26-28页 |
| ·Semantic definition | 第28-30页 |
| ·Comprehensive definition | 第30-31页 |
| ·Contrastive study of English and Chinese passives | 第31-34页 |
| Chapter Three A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Passives | 第34-55页 |
| ·Basic structures of English and Chinese passives | 第34-36页 |
| ·Basic structure of English passive | 第34-35页 |
| ·Basic structure of Chinese passive | 第35-36页 |
| ·Contrastive analysis of the structures of the English and Chinese passives | 第36-40页 |
| ·Optional agent | 第36页 |
| ·Retained object | 第36-37页 |
| ·Subject | 第37-39页 |
| ·Semantic differences | 第39-40页 |
| ·Functions of passive voice | 第40-46页 |
| ·Passive as stylistic variable | 第41-42页 |
| ·Passive as textual variable | 第42-43页 |
| ·Passive voice as a pragmatic variable | 第43-44页 |
| ·Passive voice as rhetorical variable | 第44-46页 |
| ·The corresponding cultures of English and Chinese passives | 第46-49页 |
| ·Western culture and the English language | 第46-48页 |
| ·Chinese culture and the Chinese language | 第48-49页 |
| ·Translating English and Chinese passives | 第49-55页 |
| ·Translating English passive into Chinese | 第49-52页 |
| ·Translating English passive sentences into unmarked Chinese passive sentences | 第50页 |
| ·Translating English passive sentences into Chinese active sentences | 第50-51页 |
| ·Translating English passive sentences into marked Chinese passive sentences | 第51-52页 |
| ·Translating Chinese passives into English | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design and Methodology | 第55-66页 |
| ·Research questions | 第55-56页 |
| ·Hypothesis | 第56页 |
| ·Subjects | 第56页 |
| ·Analysis of the subjects' background characteristics | 第56-57页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第57-63页 |
| ·The pre-test | 第57-58页 |
| ·Teaching process | 第58-61页 |
| ·Teaching skill | 第61-62页 |
| ·Teaching materials: | 第62-63页 |
| ·The posttest | 第63页 |
| ·The interview | 第63页 |
| ·Instruments | 第63-65页 |
| ·Instruments for data collection | 第63-64页 |
| ·Instruments for data analysis | 第64-65页 |
| ·Procedures for data collection and analysis | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Five Data Presentation and Discussion | 第66-79页 |
| ·Introduction | 第66页 |
| ·Pretest | 第66-68页 |
| ·Posttest | 第68-72页 |
| ·Further analysis of the posttest | 第72-73页 |
| ·Analysis of subjective items | 第73-77页 |
| ·Interview | 第77页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第77-79页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第79-84页 |
| ·Major findings | 第79-81页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第81-82页 |
| ·Limitations of this study | 第82-83页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第83-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-89页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ The pretest | 第89-92页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ The posttest | 第92-95页 |
