李建华、曾庆敏主编的《英语》（第二版）将农业和社会的热点话题作为教材内容，根据每单元的话题选取相关文章，并设计相关练习，在提高学生英语阅读、写作和翻译水平的同时，增加学生对农业和时事的敏感度。本教材结合专业学位研究生的特点，特别注重培养专业学位研究生的阅读、写作和翻译能力，使他们能够以英语为工具获取和交流信息。在课文选材方面本教材特意选用较新的海外文章，力求语言规范，内容新颖，题材广泛，信息性强，具有鲜明的时代特征。这些英语文章内容能够帮助学生在学习英语的同时，7解当今社会及农村发展等方面的知识。各单元具体涉及社会生活热点话题如压力与心理健康、交互网络、经济危机与生活、文化与教育；农村话题如乡村旅游与经济发展、农业推广与农村发展；社会问题如社会公平与正义、生命科学与伦理道德、食品安全与健康、文化与教育、环境与生态等。

第二版前言

第一版前言

Unit One Pressure and Mental Health

 Text A A Story About Stress

 Text B Mental Health：Strengthening Our Response

 Text C Supplementary Reading Dress Your Stress

Unit TwO Interaction and Internet

 Text A She’S Leaving Home

 Text B Relationships Community in Cyberspace

 Text C Supplementary Reading Influence of Internet on People’S

 Social and Psychological Realities

Unit Three Economic Crisis and Life

 Text A Money That Grows on Trees

 Text B Life After the Financial Crisis

 Text C Supplementary Reading Maslow on Happiness

Unit Four Rural Tourism and Economic Improvement

 Text A A FairylandPure New Zealand

 Text B Rural Tourism as a Tool for Povertv Alleviation in tkfrica

 Text C Supplementary Reading Ten Tips When Traveling Overseas

Unit Five Agricultural Extension and Rural Development

 Text A Country Life Movement

 Text B The Agricultural Extension System and the“New American Farmer

 Text C Supplementary Reading Rural Development Problem in the

United Kingdom A Third World Perspective

Unit Six Social Justice and Equality：

 Text A A Leg Up

 Text B The Problem Pseudo Democracy

 Text C Supplementary Reading Social Justice and Globalization:Are They Compatible?

Unit Seven Life Science and Morality

 Text A Is Cloning Good or Bad

 Text B The Ethical Justification for Minor Sibling Bone Marrow DonatioA Case Study

 Text C Supplementary Reading Pros and Cons of Stem Cell Research

Unit Eight Food Security and Health

 Text A Safer Coffee

 Text B Safer Food for Better Health WHO Global Strategy forFood Safety

 Text C Supplementary Reading Genetic Engineering and FoodIrradiation

Unit Nine Environment and Ecology

 Text A Substitutes for a Land Ethic

 Text B Of Man and Nature

 Text C Supplementary Reading Eco-Defense

Unit Ten Culture and Education

 Text A My Life Stories as an Eurasian

 Text B Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay

 Text C Supplementary Reading Orientalism

Model Test One

Model Test Two

Model Test Three

Model Test Four

Key to Exercises

Key to Model Tests

Glossary

References