In this paper, we show the following result： Let Ki be a knot in a closed orientable 3- manifold Mi such that （Mi,Ki） is not homeomorphic to （S^2 × S^1,x0 × S^1）, i = 1,2. Suppose that the Euler Characteristic of any meridional essential surface in each knot complement E（Ki） is less than the difference of one and twice of the tunnel number of Ki. Then the tunnel number of their connected sum will not go down. If in addition that the distance of any minimal Heegaard splitting of each knot complement is strictly more than 2, then the tunnel number of their connected sum is super additive. We further show that if the distance of a Heegaard splitting of each knot complement is strictly bigger than twice the tunnel number of the knot （twice the sum of the tunnel number of the knot and one, respectively）, then the tunnel number of connected sum of two such knots is additive （super additive, respectively）.
In the present paper we discuss some properties of book presentation of spatial graphs, and prove that the book presentation of minimum sheets of a complete graph K2m with even vertices is unique up to sheet translation and ambient isotopy. We also show this is true for K7.
