现代大学英语（第二版）精读

Acknowledgements

Abbreviatio

Pronunciation Table

Unit

Text A Your College Yea

Text B Predictable Crises of Early Adulthood

Unit

Text A How Reading Changed My Life

Text B How Books Helped Shape My Life

Unit

Text A' A Dill Pickle

Text B The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen

Unit

Text A Diogenes and Alexander

Text B Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts

Unit

Text A Silent Spring

Text B The ABCs of Global Warming

Unit

Text A How Do We Deal with the Drug Problem?

Text B They Dared Cocaine---and Lost

Unit

Inter-Lesson （I）

Unit

Text A In My Day

Text B My Grandmother, the Bag Lady

Unit

Text A Globalization's Dual Power

Text B The Intemational Language of Gestures

Unit l

Text A The End of the Civil War

Text B Mercy at Appomattox

Unit

Text A Why Historia Disagree

Text B The Third Man

Unit

Text A The Most Dangerous Game

Text B The Big Buffalo Bass

Unit

Text A The Needs That Drive Us All

Text B Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Unit

Inter-Lesson （II）

Unit

Text A A Drink in the Passage

Text B The Bench

Unit

Text A Twelve Angry Men

Text B Harry Hoffman

Glossary

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Word-formation Rules Summarized

“现代大学英语”系列教材由北京外国语大学英语学院的众多知名专家精心编写，融合了当代语言教学的研究成果和编者多年的教学经验，供高等院校英语专业本科学生使用。教材自出版以来广受好评，并先后被列入“十五”、“十一五”国家级规划教材。为更好地服务于高校英语专业本科教学，在广泛收集读者反馈的基础上，我们对本系列教材进行了修订。