本书为《英语综合教程》系列教材之一,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
Text B Beauty and the Beast
Unit 2 Love
Text A The Power of Love
Text B The Love I 11 Never Forget
Unit 3 Money and Happiness
Text A The Real Truth about Money
Text B Happiness
Unit 4 Education
Text A National Wealth Tax to Ftmd Education?
Text B Are Single-Sex Classrooms Legal?
Unit 5 Social Issues
Text A The Scope of the Teen Pregnancy Problem
Text B Is Abortion Murder?
Unit 6 Cyberspace
Text A Vulnerability of the Internet and World Wide Web
Text B Internet Evolution: Cyber Youth Culture in China
Unit 7 Biography
Text A Earnest Hemingway
Text B Joseph Heller
Unit 8 Reflections on Life
Text A Think Inside the Square to Keep Those Love Fires Burning
Text B Learn How to Face Difficulty
Unit 9 Ambition
Text A Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed
Text B The Roots of My Ambition
Unit 10 China
Text A China: Past and Prensent
Text B Cultural Healing
Unit 11 Friendship
Text A The Value of Friendship
Text B All Un-Alone in the City
Unit 12 Honesty
Text A Honesty Is the Best Policy
Text B To Lie or Not to Lie?
Unit 13 Sports
Text A A Change Will Do Them Good
Text B Cheerleading
Unit 14 Science
Text A Can We Know the Universe-Reflections oil a Grain of Salt
Text B Future Tech
Unit 15 Economy
Text A Terry Semel's Long Pause;Yahoo
Text B Feeling Fitter? The Euro Area's Economy