Unit 1
Passage 1 Understanding Classics and Recitation
Passage 2 The Optimist's Creed—Christian D. Larson
Unit 2
Passage 1 You are What You Do—Mayling Soong
Passage 2 The Diary of a Young Girl—Anne Frank
Unit 3
Passage 1 Companionship of Books—Samuel Smiles
Passage 2 Reading—Henry David Thoreau
Unit 4
Passage 1 I Have a Dream (Part I) —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Passage 2 The Period—Charles Dickens
Unit 5
Passage 1 I Have a Dream (Part II) —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Passage 2 Inaugural Address—John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Unit 6
Passage 1 Choice of Companions—William Makepeace Thayer
Passage 2 The Road Not Taken—Robert Frost
Unit 7
Passage 1 The Declaration of Independence—Thomas Jefferson
Passage 2 Fooling the People—Alexander K. McClure
Unit 8
Passage 1 The Quality of Mercy—William Shakespeare
Passage 2 Sonnet 18—William Shakespeare
Unit 9
Passage 1 Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln
Passage 2 Liberty—Edmund Burke
Unit 10
Passage 1 If—Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Passage 2 Courage—Howard Cosell
Unit 11
Passage 1 These Things Shall Never Die—Charles Dickens
Passage 2 She Walks in Beauty—George Gordon, Lord Byron
Unit 12
Passage 1 True Nobility—Ernest Hemingway
Passage 2 Man is Here for the Sake of Other Men—Albert Einstein
Unit 13
Passage 1 The Problem of Mankind—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Passage 2 On Knowledge—W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith
Unit 14
Passage 1 1 Corinthians 13—Bible (New International Version)
Passage 2 Hate—Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unit 15
Passage 1 In One Word Be a Saint—Baltasar Gracian
Passage 2 Cultivating Our Hearts
Unit 16
Passage 1 Of Studies—Francis Bacon
Passage 2 The Study of Words—Wilfred Funk & Norman Lewis
附录:辜鸿铭的西文学习法
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