张勇先、王晓露主编的《高级英语》适用对象为高等学校(四年制)英语专业三年级学生,也可供有相当英语基础的非英语专业学生和英语自学者使用,其目的是进一步训练和提高学生的英语综合技能,特别是高层次的阅读理解能力,包括对课文内容的分析欣赏、批判和评论的能力。
为了满足新时代英语学习的需要,本套教材的编者在课文的选择方面下了许多功夫。选材新颖、涉及面广是本套教材的特色之一。文章大多来自2008年左右的美国、英国、澳大利亚等英语国家的重要杂志和报纸中的社论、专栏文章,涉及政治、经济、社会、文学、教育、哲学等多方面的内容。这些文章聚焦于全球化背景下的许多热点话题,如中美关系、科技与宗教、语言与文化、战争、贫困等,观点新颖,语言富有时代性。
教材分为上、下两册,供一个学年使用。
上册
Unit 1 A Literary Engagement
Unit 2 Thumbspeak: Is Texting Here to Stay?
Unit 3 Exercise--The New "High"
Unit 4 Demography in the Balance
Unit 5 Continual Learning
Unit 6 Ghosts 101
Unit 7 "Don't Shoot! We'll Send Beer!" The Extraordinary Christmas Truce of 1914
Unit 8 Language Change: Progress or Decay?
Unit 9 The Miseducation of Hip-Hop
Unit 10 Letter from Birmingham Jail
Unit 11 Are There Global Political Values? (Part Ⅰ )
Unti 12 Are There Global Political Values? (Part Ⅱ )
Unit 13 Thomas Jefferson
Unit 14 My God Problem and Theirs
Unit 15 A Deadly Certitude
Unit 16 Night of Terror
下册
Unit 1 Art for Africa's Sake
Unit 2 Doing the Right Thing
Unit 3 A Darker Future for Us
Unit 4 Remembering Elizabeth Jolley
Unit 5 Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara
Unit 6 The War That Never Ends Abortion in America
Unit 7 Speech Communities
Unit 6 Men, Women, Computers
Unit 9 Friction over Fan Fiction
Unit 10 Who's a Freud?
Unit 11 The Telephone
Unit 12 An Amiable Monster
Unit 13 The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Unit 14 Two Americas, Two Restaurants, One Town
Unit 15 Moscow Never Sleeps
Unit 16 Architecture and Modernism