现代大学英语精读

Acknowledgements

Abbreviatio

Pronunciation Table

Unit

Text A Thinking as a Hobby

Text B The Pleasures of Learning

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Text A Spring Sowing

Text B The Earth Poet

Unit

Text A Groundless Beliefs

Text B Corn-pone Opinio

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Text A Lio and Tige and Bea

Text B Two Cities

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Text A For Want of a Drink

Text B Could You Live with Less?

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Text A The Telephone

Text B The Hour of Letdown

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Inter-Lesson （I）

Unit

Text A Economic Growth Is a Path to Perdition, Not Prosperity

Text B All This Progress Is Killing Us, Bite by Bite

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Text A The Damned Human Race

Text B A String of Beads

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Text A The World House

Text B None of This Is Fair

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Text A Soldier's Heart

Text B Secrets

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Text A Onwards and Upwards

Text B The Rivals

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Text A Cord

Text B My Daughter Smokes

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Inter-Lesson （II）

Unit

Text A A Letter to American Jews （and Other Friends of Israel）.

Text B The Never-Ending Fight

Unit

Text A Man of the Moment

Text B Is Everybody Happy?

Glossary

Language Items

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