本书以《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》为编写依据,以《普通高中英语课程标准》为参照起点,以满足学生学习需要为目标,在注重基本功训练的同时,拓宽学生的视野,提高学生的欣赏水平、思考能力及解决问题的能力;课文素材以美国原版教材为主,报纸、杂志及网络文章为辅;选材在突出时代感的同时兼顾经典语篇的分析与欣赏;课文内容重点介绍以美国为代表的英语国家的文化内涵与价值,关注当今人类面临的各种挑战与热点,使学习者在提高英语语言知识与技能的同时,开阔视野,增强独立思考与分析批判的能力,形成理性思维的习惯;课文编排架构照顾选文作者的代表性与写作风格的多样性,注重题材与体裁的合理搭配。
Unit 1 Us and Them
Unit 2 A Match Made in Heaven
Unit 3 The Culture of Liberty
Unit 4 Speed Freak
Unit 5 The Two Faces of Ghana
Unit 6 Sister Flowers
Unit 7 Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World
Unit 8 Doublespeak
Unit 9 Flamers: Cranks, Fetishists and Monomaniacs
Unit 10 Navigating the Age of Exploration and Restoring Our Capacity for Astonishment
Unit 11 The End of the Financial World as We Know It
Unit 12 Do Economists Need Brains?
Unit 13 The Frontier Within
Unit 14 A Modest Proposal
Unit 15 The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia
Unit 16 Americans and the Land
Vocabularv List
Phrases and Expressions
Abbreviatlens and Main Labels