本书由天印外语教育工作室组织编写,是教育部重点课题“卓越计划视野下的大学英语教学改革”(GPA11051)阶段性成果。本书编写任务如下:曹磊编写每个单元的 Part Ⅲ,杨欣编写第二单元、第四单元,崔雁编写diyi单元、第三单元;蒋莉编写第五单元、第六单元;王琳编写第七单元、第八单元;曹磊、杨欣负责全书的统编定稿。本书由北京科技大学徐莉芳担任主审。
本书力求探索全新的教学模式,不妥之处在所难免,敬请各位同行和使用者批评指正。
曹磊,杨欣,南京工程学院外语学院教师。
Preface Unit One Men and Women 3 Part I Pre-reading Activities 3 Part II Reading Tasks 4 Passage 1 Terra-cotta Warriors Get ‘Sex Change’4 Passage 2 Six Ways to Tackle the Gender Pay Gap7 Passage 3 Jane Eyre12 Part III Post-reading Tasks 14 Part IV Cultural Panorama 15 Unit Two Becoming Greener 17 Part I Pre-reading Activities 17 Part II Reading Tasks 18 Passage 1 Now China’s Super Rich Are Fleeing to Avoid Smog 18 Passage 2 Six Green Resolutions That Lead to Happiness22 Passage 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 26 Part III Post-reading Tasks 28 Part IV Cultural Panorama 29 Unit Three Music World 33 Part I Pre-reading Activities 33 Part II Reading Tasks 34 Passage 1 Mounting A Musical Peak34 Passage 2 Fascinating, Infuriating, Enduring: Bob Dylan Deserves His Nobel prize38 Passage 3 The Old Man And The Sea 43 Part III Post-reading Tasks 45 Part IV Cultural Panorama 46 Unit Four Travelling Around 48 Part I Pre-reading Activities 48 Part II Reading Tasks 49 Passage 1 How to Get the Most out of Visiting World-Famous Sites 49 Passage 2 A Museum of Mission54 Passage 3 The American Scholar 59 Part III Post-reading Tasks 62 Part IV Cultural Panorama 63 Unit Five Ivory Towers 67