本书是“外教社大学生拓展阅读系列”丛书之一,书中囊括了与人们生活息息相关的诸多方面的内容,既可拓宽读者的视野,又能使其熟悉并掌握各种体裁的英语表达形式;其选材多出自新近出版或更新的英文报刊书籍或网页,确保了语言材料的鲜活性和地道性,从而使读者在吸收新知的同时也可领略到贴近时代与现实生活的崭新表现手法;书中所选近300篇文章可谓篇篇独具风格,或短或长,均不乏妙趣,细细品味,蕴涵于字里行间的精言妙义常令人不禁释然或哑然,所谓“益智”、“怡情”,二者原来可以兼得。
The Talented Mr. Ridley and Gladiator
Lauren Shuler Donner
Steven Spielberg (1)
Steven Spielberg (2)
Soderbergh's Choice
Tsui Hark's New Spark
Walt Disney -- Ruler of the Magic Kingdom
Movies Are an Illusion
Sinning Isn't Everything
On a Role
The Beginning
The Christmas Classics
The Christmas Not-Quite-Classics
You Should Be in Pixels
If Only Life Were So Beautiful
You've Got Mail
Citizen Kane and Orson Welles
Rebecca
Nurse Betty
Make Mood, Not Love
Cast Away
Martial Masterpiece
The Bantam Menace
Gwyneth Paltrow & Emma
Anthony Hopkins & Hannibal
In the Swim Again
Who Rattled Her Cage?
A Softer Side of Mel
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible 2
Oruising for Control
Forever Leslie
Charlie Chaplin -- the Greatest Comedian