本教材中每个单元有Text A和Text B两篇阅读材料,对生词、难词加以注释。编者提供的注释有意识地给读者提供一定的选择空间,要求学生作出正确的词义选择。每篇文章配有针对性很强的阅读练习题。回答问题部分和正误判断部分主要是评测学生对原文内容的理解,正确理解原文内容是英语泛读的基本要求。解释原文和英汉翻译是对学生理解能力的更深层次的测试,这两部分互为补充。阅读评述部分旨在训练学生口头和笔头的发挥能力和思维拓展能力,是对原文阅读的进一步延伸。布置课外阅读任务则是为了培养学生的自学能力、研究能力、材料收集能力,使学生不仅能增加阅读量,而且引发更深层的思考。
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。
Unit One
Text A Reading
Text B A Love Affair with Books
Unit Two
Text A The Triumph of the Yell
Text B The Eloquent Sounds of Silence
Unit Three
Text A Your Speech Is Changing
Text B How to Talk about the World
Unit Four
Text A The Art of Living Simply
Text B Holy Dying
Unit Five
Text A Solitude
Text B Once More to the Lake
Unit Six
Text A A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Text B Men Are Very Delicate
Unit Seven
Text A Beauty
Text B Cinderella' s Stepsisters
Unit Eight
Text A What Is Science?
Text B To Err Is Human
Unit Nine
Text A On National Prejudice
Text B Shall We Choose Death?
Unit Ten
Text A Daydreams of What You'd Rather Be
Text B Culture and Food Habits
Unit Eleven
Text A Photographs of My Parents
Text B Two Ways to Belong in America
Unit Twelve
Text A Three Types of Resistance to Oppression
Text B Loneliness... An American Malady