本书作为英语专业基础阶段的阅读教材旨在扩大学生的词汇量，增强英语语感，丰富文化知识，提高人文素质，并培养学生的逻辑思维和形象思维能力，训练略读、寻读、细读、评读等阅读技巧。为满足扩充词汇量、拓展知识面的需要，本书选题范围较广，内容丰富；为提高学生的思辨能力和阅读欣赏能力，优先选择具有经典意义和收藏价值的文章, 有助于学生从西方传统文化和现当代文化中汲取精华部分，了解其独特的精神内涵。配套练习旨在引导学生去解读、思考、分析、批评，并激发学生更强烈的阅读欲望。
本书修订更换了部分课文，以求选材的时代性、内容的丰富性、文本的趣味性和文体的多样性。在筛选文章的过程中，既考虑提升学生的英语水平与人文知识基础，也注重整套教材内容的前后衔接。
安徽大学教授
Unit One
Text A Unveiling and Consuming Art in the Multifarious Spaces of Early Modern China 1
Text B Book Review of Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy 13
Twenty Minutes’ Reading…25
Unit Two 29
Text A Take This Fish and Look at It 29
Text B Another School Year—What For? 37
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 45
Unit Three 49
Text A Your Flexible Friends 49
Text B Words That Get You Hired 58
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 67
Unit One
Text A Unveiling and Consuming Art in the Multifarious Spaces of Early Modern China 1
Text B Book Review of Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy 13
Twenty Minutes’ Reading…25
Unit Two 29
Text A Take This Fish and Look at It 29
Text B Another School Year—What For? 37
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 45
Unit Three 49
Text A Your Flexible Friends 49
Text B Words That Get You Hired 58
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 67
Unit Four 70
Text A European Business News 70
Text B Is Higher Inflation the Most Painless Way to Escape Current Economic Troubles? 81
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 89
Unit Five 93
Text A Solve That Problem—With Humor 93
Text B The Crooked Streets 101
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 110
Unit Six 114
Text A When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is “a Waste of Time”114
Text B Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father 122
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 130
Unit Seven 134
Text A A Matter of Degrees 134
Text B How to Build a Student for the 21st Century 143
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 152
Unit Eight 157
Text A Friendship: The Laws of Attraction 157
Text B The Bond: Staying in Touch When Children Go to College 167
Twenty Minutes’ Reading…175
Unit Nine 179
Text A The Biggest Extinction on Earth 179
Text B Spyware on Your Cell Phone? 187
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 193
Unit Ten 197
Text A Fame 197
Text B The Vice of Punctuality 205
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 213
Unit Eleven 216
Text A The Shocks of Doom 216
Text B Luck 226
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 234
Unit Twelve 238
Text A The Price of Oil 238
Text B Deal or No Deal 247
Twenty Minutes’ Reading 255
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