《大学基础英语教程(第二版) 第2册 学生用书》本着'低端定位、高端品质'的理念,整套教材遵循唯实性、简约性、实用性和教育性的编写原则,集专项知识和技能训练于一天,每册针对语法、阅读、翻译和写作各有侧重。《大学基础英语教程》每一册包含八个单元和两套自测题,一二册和三四册编写体例上有一定的差异,体现逐渐进阶的特点。
《大学基础英语教程》专门为高校艺术类、体育类学生和民族地区的非英语专业学生编写,课文选材、编写体例及课后练习设计都体现了较强的针对性。
王芳,西安交通大学 外国语学院 大学英语教学部主任 发表论文10余篇,译文2篇;参编书籍3本,教材2本。研究方向侧重于翻译与教学、 语篇语言学等。
Unit One Never Give Up
Text A Heart of Gold
Text B Run, Patti, Run!
Reading in Focus What Does It Really Mean?
Unit Two Power of Music
Text A Keep on Singing
Text B Piano Music
Reading in Focus Guess the Meaning of a Word
Unit Three Do Good
Text A I’ve Come to Clean Your Shoes
Text B Your Money or Your Time?
Reading in Focus Understand Long Sentences (1)
Unit Four Friendly Animals
Text A Dogs Help Children Bee Better Readers
Text B Grandpa’s Bee
Reading in Focus Understand Long Sentences (2)
Test One
Unit Five Unspoken Love
Text A Me, in Concert
Text B A Prodigy’s Early Years
Reading in Focus Sentences with Participles
Unit Six Fans Forever
Text A World Cup Dad
Text B Roger Maris and Me
Reading in Focus Connections between Sentences
Unit Seven Inspiration
Text A The Remembrance of Lilacs
Text B Ramona’s Touch
Reading in Focus Locate the Topic Sentences
Unit Eight Cultural Differences
Text A Cultural Differences? Or, Are We Really That Different?
Text B How to Overe Culture Shock in a Foreign Country
Reading in Focus Recognize the Concluding Sentences
Test Two
Vocabulary
At a young age, Patti Wilson was told by her doctor she was an epileptic.Her father is a morning jogger.One day she said to her father, 'Daddy, what I' d really love to do is run with you every day, but I'm afraid I'll have a seizure.' Her father told her, 'Ifyou do, I know how to handle it, so let' s start running! '
That was a wonderful experience for them to share and there were no seizures at all while she was running.After a few weeks, she told her father, 'Daddy, what I'd really love to is break the world's long-distance running record for women.'
Her father checked the Guinness Book of World Records and found that the farthest any woman had run was 80 miles.As a freshman in high school, Patti announced, 'I'm going to run from Orange County up to San Francisco.' (A distance of 400 miles.) 'As a sophomore,' she went on, 'I'm going to run to Portland, Oregon.'(Over 1,500 miles.) 'As a junior I'Il run to St.Louis.' (About 2,000 miles.) 'As a senior I'Il run to the White House.'(Over 3,000 miles.)
In view of her handicap, Patti was as ambitious as she was enthusiastic, but she said she looked at the handicap of being an epileptic as simply 'an inconvenience'.She focused not on what she had lost, but on what she had been left.
That year she pleted her run to San Francisco wearing a T-shirt that read, 'I love Epi-leptics.' In her sophomore year Patti' s classmates got behind her.They built a giant poster that read, 'Run, Patti, Run! ' (This has since bee her motto.)
On her second marathon, en route to Portland, she fractured a bone in her foot.A doctor told her she had to stop her run.