欧美文化阅读文选(上)
分類: 图书,外语 ,大学英语 ,英语专业 ,
作者: 冯艳荣 等编
出 版 社: 吉林大学出版社
出版时间: 2008-1-1字数: 670000版次: 1页数: 330印刷时间: 2008/01/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9787560137407包装: 平装内容简介
这是根据实际教学的需要而编写的一本高等院校英语选修课的教科书,它的编写旨在为学生提供一些欧美文化方面的信息和知识。它是学生们了解欧美文化的一本很好的教学用书,不但能帮助学习者学习和掌握欧美文化方面的基础知识,而且也能提高他们的语言能力和英语表达水平及综合水平。
本书由25个单元构成,每单元4个Reading Passages,共计100篇短文。在每个Reading Passage的后面都设有词汇表、注释和句子翻译或阅读理解练习。这些文章的内容包括西方的精神追求、价值观念、议事方式、知识背景、科技和艺术等方面的情况和成就以及一些综合知识等等。书本的选材以欧美文化为主干,侧重美国文化,都是一些适合教学的质量高的文章,对培养学生的语言修养和文学素质、塑造完美人格、增强跨文化交际意识和文化鉴赏能力都有促进作用。
该书具有知识性、系统性、科学性、时代性、趣味性、新颖性和可读性等,方便教与学、思考和掌握。
目录
Unit One
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Nobel Prizes
Reading Passage Ⅱ Basketry: A Stone Age Craft
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Fortune in Hardwoods
Reading Passage Ⅱ What to Do with Solid Waste
Unit Two
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Introduction to Italy
Reading Passage Ⅱ Italy's Finest Resource--Its People
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Conservation the Future is Now
Reading Passage Ⅱ Pain and Pleasure
Unit Three
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Marco Polo
Reading Passage Ⅱ St. Peter's Basilica
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Early Navigator's Best Friends
Reading Passage Ⅱ Cool, Clear Water
Unit Four
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Gondola of Venice--Floating Symbol of a City
Reading Passage Ⅱ The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Scientists or Dreamers
Reading Passage Ⅱ Marine Mineral Resources
Unit Five
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Hans Christian Andersen
Reading Passage Ⅱ Bernard Shaw
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Our Water Supply
Reading Passage Ⅱ Following the Rules
Unit Six
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ St. Patrick's Day
Reading Passage Ⅱ Mozart
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Cones and Domes
Reading Passage Ⅱ Greece
Unit Seven
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Overview of Vienna
Reading Passage Ⅱ A Safe, High Quality and Easy Way of Living
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Seeing is Believing
Reading Passage Ⅱ Rain Drops Keep Falling
Unit Eight
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Beginning of the Dane--Norse Invasions
Reading Passage Ⅱ Danish Culture
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ A Shaft of Vermont Granite
Reading Passage Ⅱ Island on the Move
Unit Nine
Unit Eleven
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Life of Pablo Picasso
Reading Passage Ⅱ Pop Corn and Potato Chips
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ For the Cause of Liberty
Reading Passage Ⅱ Using Energy Efficiently
Unit Twelve
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Father of Science Fiction--Jules Verne
Reading Passage Ⅱ The Gigantic Optional Illusion
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Clues to The Past
Reading Passage Ⅱ Those Daring Young Men
Unit Thirteen
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Overcoming Cultural Shock
Reading Passage Ⅱ History of Black Harlem
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Problems of Older Americans
Reading Passage Ⅱ Louis Pasteur
Unit Fourteen
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ American Classroom Customs
Reading Passage Ⅱ Canada in the Second World War
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Man behind the Braille System
Reading Passage Ⅱ Income Tax
Unit Fifteen
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ In Search of Good English Food
Reading Passage Ⅱ Origins of Easter Traditions
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Curds and Whey
Reading Passage Ⅱ Henry Ford and the American Automobile
Unit Sixteen
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ New York
Reading Passage Ⅱ Rome
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Table Manners
Reading Passage Ⅱ The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
Unit Seventeen
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Paris
Reading Passage Ⅱ Panama Canal
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Reading Passage Ⅱ From The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dos
Unit Eighteen
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The History of Mother's Day
Reading Passage Ⅱ British Bank Holiday
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ From The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Unit Twenty-One
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ An Experience of Watching a Bullfight in Spain
Reading Passage Ⅱ English Language and Culture
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Money
Reading Passage Ⅱ The Cost of Civilization
Unit Twenty-Two
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Samaranch, the Olympic Patriarch
Reading Passage Ⅱ Mt .Rushmore
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Chocolate: Everyone's Favorite Sweet
Reading Passage Ⅱ A Unique Reporting System
Unit Twenty-Three
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Getting Married in USA
Reading Passage Ⅱ Ladies First
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Land of Opportunity
Reading Passage Ⅱ Baked, Boiled, or Fried
Unit Twenty-Four
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Free Concerts in Museums, Parks and Public Places
Reading Passage Ⅱ Living a Long Life
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ London--A Good Place to Start Your Tour
Reading Passage Ⅱ Peace for All Mankind
Unit Twenty-Five
Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Abortion and the Death Penalty
Reading Passage Ⅱ Birthday Parties and Potluck Parties
Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Today's Drug Culture
Reading Passage Ⅱ Read the Label
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