《英语综合教程》是根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》编写，致力于培养学生具有扎实的语言基本功、宽广的知识面、一定的相关专业知识、较强的能力和较高的人文素质。本套教材为基础英语课程教材，共四册，可供高等院校英语专业一、二年级学生使用。本册为第二册，适用于一年级第二学期。

本册共15个单元，选材以扩大学生知识面、培养学生的综合素质为主要原则，内容涉及童话、爱情、友谊、幸福、教育、社会问题、网络、名人传记、理想、科技、经济、体育等15个主题。每单元包括八个主要部分。

Unit 1 Fairy Tale

Text A Beauty and the Beast / 3

Text B Beauty and the Beast / 15

Unit 2 Love

Text A The Power of Love / 22

Text B The Love I'll Never Forget / 32

Unit 3 Money and Happiness

Text A The Real Truth about Money / 41

Text B Happiness / 52

Unit 4 Education

Text A National Wealth Tax to Fund Education? / 60

Text B Are Single-Sex Classrooms Legal? / 71

Unit 5 Social Issues

Text A The Scope of the Teen Pregnancy Problem / 79

Text B Is Abortion Murder? / 91

Unit 6 Cyberspace

Text A Vulnerability of the Internet and World Wide Web / 99

Text B Internet Evolution: Cyber Youth Culture in China / 109

Unit 7 Biography

Text A Earnest Hemingway / 120

Text B JosephHeller / 132

Unit   Reflections on Life

Text A Think Inside the Square to Keep Those Love Fires Burning

Text B Learn How to Face Difficulty / 150

Unit 9 Ambition

Text A Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed

TextB The Roots of My Ambition / 168

Unit 10 ChinaToday

Text A China: Past and Prensent / 177

TextB Cultural Healing / 187

Unit 11 Friendship .

Text A The Value of Friendship / 197

Text B All Un-Alone in the Ci.ty / 208

Unit 12 Honesty

Text A Honesty Is the Best Policy / 216

TextB To Lie or Not to Lie? / 229

Unit 13 Sports

Text A A Change Will Do Them Good / 237

Text B Cheerleading / 247

Unit 14 Science

Text A Can We Know the Universe-Reflections on a Grain of Salt

TextB FutureTech / 273

Unit 15 Economy

Text A Terry Semel' s Long Pause; Yahoo / 281

Text B Feeling Fitter? The Euro Area's Economy / 291

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