本书为《现代大学英语》精读教材的第三册。本书是北京外国语大学英语系的一项重要科研成果,汇集了英语教学专家们的丰富教学经验,体现了前沿的教学思想。本书吸纳了国外最新的语言材料,题材丰富,内容新颖,包括了现代生活的各个方面,具有很强的可读性。
本教材是北京外国语大学英语系的专家们根据当代语言教学的研究成果和多年的教学经验,精心编写的供高等院校英语专业本料学生使用的教材。本教材有以下特点:
本教材是北京外国语大学英语系的一项重要科研成果,汇集了英语教学专家们的丰富教学经验,体现了前沿的教学思想。
教材吸纳了国外最新的语言材料,题材丰富,内容新颖,包括了现代生活的各个方面,具有鲜明的时代特征。
教材在总体目标、语言项目、词汇范围和练习方式上,都体现了新大纲的要求,符合国家标准。
教材在教学法上博采众长,不拘一格;在教学原则上注意发挥学生的主动性与积极性;在编写手法上注意纵向连贯和横向配合,循序渐进。
与教材配套的有录音带、多媒体软件等辅助学习材料,体现了立体教学的特点,方便读者学习。
教材注意语言与文化的结合,注重提高学生的人文修养,体现了英语专业教材的特色。
Plan of the Book
Acknowledgement
Texts
Lesson One
Text A Your College Years
Text B Preparing for College
Lesson Two
Text A Discovery of a Father
Text B The Last Word Was Love
Lesson Three
Text A Michael Dell's Two-Billion-Dollar Dream
Text B Would You Know a Computer If You Met One?
Lesson Four
Text A Wisdom of Bear Wood
Text B Baby Birds
Lesson Five
Text A Twelve Angry Men (Part One)
Text B Shot Actress -- Full Story (Part I)
Lesson Six
Text A Twelve Angry Men (Part Two)
Text B Shot Actress -- Full Story (Part I)
Lesson Seven
Text A The Rivals
Text B The Open Window
Lesson Eight
Text A "We're Only Human"
Text B Button, Button
Lesson Nine
Text A A Dill Pickle
Text B The Valentine Generation
Lesson Ten
Text A Diogenes and Alexander
Text B A Horseman in the Sky
Lesson Eleven
Text A Silent Spring
Text B Of Man and the Stream of Time
Lesson Twelve
Text A The Needs that Drive Us All
Text B Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Lesson Thirteen
Text A In My Day
Text B My Grandmother, the Bag Lady
Lesson Fourteen
Text A Mercy at Appomattox
Text B Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Lesson Fifteen
Text A The President as Corporate Salesman
Text B Our Leaders Don't Know Best
Vocabulary List
Idiomatic Expressions and Collocations