作为研究生的英语教材,本书力求做到内容新颖,知识性思想性强,渗透对文化的学习、思考和探究,并能体现学术性。同时,语言首先是交际工具,非英语专业研究生掌握英语的目的是为了应用。因此本书还十分注重语言的实用性和选材的广泛性、时代性。
本书以课文阅读为核心,通过多样化的练习,对学生进行语言知识(如词汇、句型扩展及语法巩固)和读、说、写、译等语言技能的综合训练,提高学生的英语应用能力,从而达到学以致用的目的。
Unit One
Text A Colin Powell:Straight to the Top
Text B TheyCallHim a Miracle Worker
Unit TWO
Text A ThatLean and Hungry Look
Text B Neat People VSSloppyPeople
Unit Three
Text A Selling Our Innocence Abroad
Text B How I’ll Become an American
Unit Four
Text A The Right to Fail
Text B College Lectures:Is Anybody Listening?
Unit Five
TextA A Granddaughter’s Fear
Text B Stay Young
Unit Six
Text A The Generation Lap
Text B Christmas Unplugged
Unit Seven
Text A Propaganda Techniques in Advertising
Text B With These Words I Can Sell You Anything
Unit Eight
Text A Nora Quealey
Text B The Gendered Self
Unit Nine
Text A HowtoDealwithaDifficultBoss
Text B BadBossesandHowtoHandleThem
Unit Ten
Text A Was America a Mistake?
Text B Group Minds
Unit Eleven
Text A Any More Like You at Home?
Text B Only Daughter
Unit Twelve
Text A The Real Generation Gap
Text B Closing the Generation Gap