本书是“全国英语专业博雅系列教材”中的一种,是供英语专业本科学生二年级下学期精读课或综合英语课使用的教材。本书共12单元,所选精读文章涉及家庭、爱、科技、美等“博雅”内容,内容积极向上。课文结构上包括精选英语名篇、课文理解、词汇、语法、翻译、扩展阅读等,全面提高与巩固学生英语方面的听说读写译技能,增进百科知识。
Unit 1
Text A Live and Learn, Why We Have College
Text B The Complete Collection of Lies That High School Told Me
Unit 2
Text A The Trying Twenties
Text B Cure Yourself of Unhappiness
Unit 3
Text A The Joy Luck Club (Excerpt)
Text B A Defining Gap: Seniors for Romney, Millennials for Obama
Unit 4
Text A News in the Television Schedule
Text B How to Establish Your Professional Network Through Social Media
Unit 5
Text A The World Turns Gray
Text B Oil's New World Order
Unit 6
Text A Is Technology a Threat to Liberal Society?
Text B Modern Science and Technology and the Challenges of
Third World Countries
Unit 7
Text A Digital Photography Does Not Exist?
Text B THE iPHONE: Three Revolutionary Products in One
Unit 8
Text A ChildFund International
Text B Stop Telling Rich Folks to Give More to Charity
Unit 9
Text A The Story Behind the Amazing Success of Black Athletes
Text B Why the Story of Muhammad Ali's Rebellion Matters Today
Unit 10
Text A Body Politics
Text B The Moral Causes of Europe's Predicament
Unit 11
Text A Beauty
Text B Give Her a Pattern
Unit 12
Text A Plato
Text B Who Was Socrates?
Phrase List
Vocabulary List