英语泛读教程

Unit One

Text A Unveiling and Consuming Art in the Multifarious Spaces of Early Modern China 1

Text B Book Review of Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy 13

Twenty Minutes’ Reading…25

Unit Two 29

Text A Take This Fish and Look at It 29

Text B Another School Year—What For? 37

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 45

Unit Three 49

Text A Your Flexible Friends 49

Text B Words That Get You Hired 58

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 67

Unit One

Text A Unveiling and Consuming Art in the Multifarious Spaces of Early Modern China 1

Text B Book Review of Mi Fu and the Classical Tradition of Chinese Calligraphy 13

Twenty Minutes’ Reading…25

Unit Two 29

Text A Take This Fish and Look at It 29

Text B Another School Year—What For? 37

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 45

Unit Three 49

Text A Your Flexible Friends 49

Text B Words That Get You Hired 58

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 67

Unit Four 70

Text A European Business News 70

Text B Is Higher Inflation the Most Painless Way to Escape Current Economic Troubles? 81

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 89

Unit Five 93

Text A Solve That Problem—With Humor 93

Text B The Crooked Streets 101

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 110

Unit Six 114

Text A When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is “a Waste of Time”114

Text B Escaping the Daily Grind for Life as a House Father 122

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 130

Unit Seven 134

Text A A Matter of Degrees 134

Text B How to Build a Student for the 21st Century 143

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 152

Unit Eight 157

Text A Friendship: The Laws of Attraction 157

Text B The Bond: Staying in Touch When Children Go to College 167

Twenty Minutes’ Reading…175

Unit Nine 179

Text A The Biggest Extinction on Earth 179

Text B Spyware on Your Cell Phone? 187

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 193

Unit Ten 197

Text A Fame 197

Text B The Vice of Punctuality 205

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 213

Unit Eleven 216

Text A The Shocks of Doom 216

Text B Luck 226

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 234

Unit Twelve 238

Text A The Price of Oil 238

Text B Deal or No Deal 247

Twenty Minutes’ Reading 255

本书修订更换了部分课文，以求选材的时代性、内容的丰富性、文本的趣味性和文体的多样性。在筛选文章的过程中，既考虑提升学生的英语水平与人文知识基础，也注重整套教材内容的前后衔接。