英语泛读教程

Unit One

Text A What to Listen for in Music

Text B The Eloquent Sounds of Silence

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Unit Two

Text A Your Speechls Changing

Text B How to Talk about the World

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Unit Three

Text A A LoveAffairwithBooks

Text B The Lost Art of Reading

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Unit One

Text A What to Listen for in Music

Text B The Eloquent Sounds of Silence

Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Two

Text A Your Speechls Changing

Text B How to Talk about the World

Twenty Minutes' Reading

Unit Three

Text A A LoveAffairwithBooks

Text B The Lost Art of Reading

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Unit Four

Text A ThinkingasaHobby

Text B The Art of Living Simply

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Unit Five

Text A Once More to the Lake

Text B The Almost Perfect State

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Unit Six

Text A Middle Age, Old Age

Text B Men Are Very Delicate

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Unit Seven

Text A Beauty

Text B Cinderella's Stepsisters

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Unit Eight

Text A In Praise of ldleness

Text B To Err Is Human

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Unit Nine

Text A On National Prejudice

Text B Politics and the English Language

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Unit Ten

Text A Daydreams of What You'd Rather Be

Text B Culture and Food Habits

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Unit Eleven

Text A Photographs of My Parents

Text B Two Ways to Belong in America

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Unit Twelve

Text A Three Types of Resistance to Oppression

Text B Loneliness... An American Malady

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