由李毅、王朋主编的《英语(专科下)/成人高等教育财经专业精品教材系列》是成人高等教育财经专业精品系列教材之一。经济全球化、文化多元化和信息网络化时代的来临，对作为成人高等教育必修课程之一的英语课程教材建设提出了新的、更高的要求。据此，作者针对成人学习英语的困难与特点编写了这套《英语》（专科）成人高等教育通用英语教材，以供成人教育非英语专业的专科学生学习使用。教材以成人高等教育专科英语教学大纲为指导，按照循序渐进，突出重点，注重操练的编写原则，充分体现英语学习和教学的规律性，全面传授英语语言知识，重点培养阅读与翻译能力，使学习者掌握基础的、实用的英语语言知识和技能，具备阅读和翻译与本专业有关的英文资料的初步能力，并为进一步提高英语应用能力打下较扎实的基础。

UNIT ONE

 TEXT A Teachers' Day

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B SQRRR Reading Method

UNIT TWO

 TEXT A Education First

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B A Letter from A Father

UNIT THREE

 TEXT A Charity Shops

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B Millionaires Give Nine Percent of Income to Charity

UNIT FOUR

  TEXT A  "Heart" Expressions

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Grammar Exercises

  TEXT B Nuts and Bolts

UNIT FIVE

 TEXT A The Rise of Sharing Economy

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B Most Britons Willing to Pay Green Taxes

UNIT SIX

  TEXT A The Road to Success

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Grammar Exercises

  TEXT B The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself

UNIT SEVEN

  TEXT A Cultural Taboos

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Grammar Exercises

  TEXT B Origins of English Last Names

UNIT EIGHT

  TEXT A How to Write the Perfect CV

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Grammar Exercises

  TEXT B Types of People Whose Careers Grow the Fastest

UNIT NINE

  TEXT A A Giant on the Wheelchair--Stephen Hawking

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B Live Entirely in Music--Beethoven

UNIT TEN

 TEXT A Ideas of Home Have Changed

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B The Redefinition of "Old" 

UNIT ELEVEN

 TEXT A Why Are the Americans Fascinated with Guns? 

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B Is the Future of Mankind Gloomy or Bright?

UNIT TWELVE

 TEXT A Modernization Announcement

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Grammar Exercises

 TEXT B What is Globalization?

Appendix:课文译文及习题参考答案

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