本教程是为高等院校英语专业学生编写的高级英语教程,适合对象为高等学校英语专业高年级学生,目的是进一步训练和提高学生的英语综合技能,特别是高层次的阅读理解能力,包括对课文内容的分析欣赏和思辨能力,充分体现英语专业教学改革强调的全人教育理念。本教程设计4个分册,并配套相应的教学参考书。本书为学生用书第二册。
顾问,刘润清,北京外国语大学博士生导师,外语教育家。顾问,仲伟合,广东外语外贸大学博士生导师,校长;教育部全国高等学校外语教学指导委员会英语专业教学指导分委员会主任委员。总主编,文旭,教授,西南大学外国语学院院长,博士生导师。北京师范大学博士,北京外国语大学博士后。国务院政府特殊津贴获得者;教育部\"新世纪优秀人才支持计划项目\"获得者;教育部\"优秀青年教师资助计划项目\"获得者;重庆市\"高等学校优秀中青年骨干教师资助计划项目\"获得者。重庆市首批高校中青年骨干教师;第三届重庆市优秀专业技术人才;重庆市学术带头人。西南大学学位评定委员会副主席,西南大学职称评审委员会委员。
Unit One
Text A Future Shlock by Neil Postman
Text B The Huxleyan Warning by Neil Postman
Unit Two
Text A Why People Don’t Help in A Crisis? by John M. Darley & Bibb Latané
Text B Territorial Behavior by Desmond Morris
Unit Three
Text A Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life by Edward I. Koch
Text B The Death Penalty by David Bruck
Unit Four
Text A The Promise by W. Somerset Maugham
Text B Theft by Katherine Anne Porter
Unit Five
Text A The Fine Art of Complaining by Caroline Rego
Text B How Urban Myths Reveal Society’s Fears by Neal Gabler
Unit Six
Text A Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
Text B The Politics of Starvation by George Orwell
Unit Seven
Text A The Human Drift by Jack London
Text B Reality and Contrivance by Erving Goffman
Unit Eight
Text A New York by Gay Talese
Text B The Aspect of London by Arthur Symons
Unit Nine
Text A Mother by Sherwood Anderson
Text B A Conversation with My Father by Grace Paley
Unit Ten
Text A The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe
Text B A College Vagabond by Andy Adams
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