本书是为已有一定英语水平,并想进一步提高英语阅读欣赏和写作水平的学习者而编的教材。书中所选课文在体裁上包括了英语所有常见的文体,课文的编写符合语言学习的心理过程,题型多样。本教材既适用于在校学生,又适用于自学者,既可作为精读课本,又可作为写作课的辅助教材。
Lesson 1 The Geese
Lesson 2 The Library Card
Lesson 3 Little Deaths
Lesson 4 Desert Notes
Lesson 5 San Francisco is Gone
Lesson 6 The War Room at Bellevue
Lesson 7 Why Don't We Complain?
Lesson 8 University Days
Lesson 9 Sexism and Language
Lesson 10 TV Addiction
Lesson 11 Philiatines and Philistinism
Lesson 12 The Nature of Scientific Reasoning
Lesson 13 A Strong President
Lesson 14 Rich Doctors, Poor Nurses
21 I didn't know what he wanted to do. He hadn't pulled out his gun. "Can we turn him loose? Maybe he isn't wild. Maybe he just wandered up here on his own."