本书为中美专家合作编写,是一套缜密切入英美文化各个层面,培养英语运用能力的有机教程。其基本教学理念是:把学术焦点放在中西文化的表里差异上,引导学习者领会准确、纯正的英语,从而自然无碍地掌握语言技能。
本书不仅适用于高校英语专业学生,也适用于入学时英语水平较高的大学非英语专业学生和有一定英语基础而准备出国深造的英语学习者。
本教材具有以下特点:
★全部文章采用英文原文,保持“原汁原味”,兼顾多种风格;
★切入英语文化的各个层面、各个情景、以期在更广的语境中提高学生的语言理解能力和运用能力;
★深入英语文化,将焦点放在中外文化的差异上,并配有互动式练习。
Book Three
Unit 1 Being Ethnic in the U.S.
Unit 2 Language and Society
Unit 3 Gun Control in Debate
Unit 4 Television and Violence
Unit 5 Gender and Sexuality
Unit 6 Imaging Beauty
Unit 7 Cyber-Space: The New Frontier
Unit 8 Sex Education
Unit U The Entertainment Business
Unit 10 The Divorce Debate
Unit 11 Leisure and Pastime
Unit 12 How Free Should Media Be
Unit 13 Racial Discrimination and Its Manifestations
Unit 14 Man in Nature
Unit 15 Family Values
Unit 10 Trashing the Planet
Book Four
Unit 1 The Ambivalence of Abortion
Unit 2 Contested History
Unit 3 capital Punishment
Unit 4 Gender and the English Language
Unit 5 Images on the Screen
Unit 6 Environmental Protection
Unit 7 Regulating the Internet
Unit 8 Iconic Figures
Unit 9 Sexual Harassment
Unit 10 Talk Shows
Unit 11 Drug Testing
Unit 12 Rights in Question
Unit 13 The Paradox of Cloning
Unit 14 Euthanasia
Unit 15 Metaphors of War