教材课文是学习语言、获取知识，了解世界，完成教学任务，实现教学目标，培养人才不可或缺的重要素材、资源和载体。本系列图书荟萃百年来全世界范围内，英语国家和非英语国家所使用的英语教材中的经典课文，辅以必要的导读、注释、习题等阅读帮助，为广大英语学习者提供高品质的语言、知识和文化等素材和资源。在阅读、赏析的同时，提高语言素养，丰富知识，进而提升核心素养，为学习者成为具有全球胜任力的人才，打下英语、知识和跨文化的扎实功底。

教材课文是学习语言、获取知识，了解世界，完成教学任务，实现教学目标，培养人才不可或缺的重要素材、资源和载体。本系列图书荟萃百年来全世界范围内，英语国家和非英语国家所使用的英语教材中的经典课文，辅以必要的导读、注释、习题等阅读帮助，为广大英语学习者提供高品质的语言、知识和文化等素材和资源。在阅读、赏析的同时，提高语言素养，丰富知识，进而提升核心素养，为学习者成为具有全球胜任力的人才，打下英语、知识和跨文化的扎实功底。

Unit 1  Culture
Text 1 Wedding Customs
Text 2 Knowing Your Taste
Text 3 The King Herself
Text 4 Culture Shock

Unit 2  Education
Text 1 Language and Knowledge
Text 2 Can the Problems Be Solved?
Text 3 Letters of Application
Text 4 English Grows into Strange Shapes When Transplanted into Foreign Soil

Unit 3  People
Text 1 Ocean Hero
Text 2 Thomas Edison
Text 3 Desiree Davila Targeting Chicago and a Fast Time This Fall
Text 4 My Year in the Arctic

Unit 4  Literary Criticism
Text 1 The Themes that Shakespeare Explores
Text 2 New Criticism
Text 3 Decoding Narrative: Conflict, Stages and Characters
Text 4 Middle English Literature

Unit 5  Literature
Text 1 Captain Isaiah Sellers
Text 2 Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
Text 3 Icarus and Daedalus
Text 4 Studies in the Park
Text 5 Waiting for the Plane
Text 6 The End of the Affair
Text 7 Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

Unit 6  Society
Text 1 A Defense of Advertising
Text 2 Social Darwinism
Text 3 Diamond Shipwreck

Unit 7  Sports
Text 1 Fear Factors—Success and Risk in Extreme Sports
Text 2 Bringing the World Together

Unit 8  Science and Technology
Text 1 Public Support Geoengineering Research, Survey Findings
Text 2 How to Speak a Book
Text 3 What Is Science?
Text 4 Unmasking Virus Writers and Hackers
Answers for Reference