英语泛读教程

Unit One Text A Reading Text B A Love Affair with BooksUnit Two Text A The Triumph of the Yell Text B The Eloquent Sounds of SilenceUnit Three Text A Your Speech Is Changing Text B How to Talk about the WorldUnit Four Text A The Art of Living Simply Text B Holy DyingUnit Five Text A Solitude Text B Once More to the Lake

Unit One Text A Reading Text B A Love Affair with BooksUnit Two Text A The Triumph of the Yell Text B The Eloquent Sounds of SilenceUnit Three Text A Your Speech Is Changing Text B How to Talk about the WorldUnit Four Text A The Art of Living Simply Text B Holy DyingUnit Five Text A Solitude Text B Once More to the LakeUnit Six Text A A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Text B Men Are Very DelicateUnit Seven Text A Beauty Text B Cinderella' s StepsistersUnit Eight Text A What Is Science? Text B To Err Is HumanUnit Nine Text A On National Prejudice Text B Shall We Choose Death?Unit Ten Text A Daydreams of What You'd Rather Be Text B Culture and Food HabitsUnit Eleven Text A Photographs of My Parents Text B Two Ways to Belong in AmericaUnit Twelve Text A Three Types of Resistance to Oppression Text B Loneliness... An American Malady

本书作为英语专业基础阶段的阅读教材旨在扩大学生的词汇量，增强英语语感，丰富文化知识，提高人文素质，并培养学生的逻辑思维和形象思维能力，训练略读、寻读、细读、评读等阅读技巧。为满足扩充词汇量、拓展知识面的需要，本书选题范围较广，内容丰富；为提高学生的思辨能力和阅读欣赏能力，优先选择具有经典意义和收藏价值的文章，有助于学生从西方传统文化和现当代文化中汲取精华部分，了解其独特的精神内涵。配套练习旨在引导学生去解读、思考、分析、批评，并激发学生更强烈的阅读欲望。

本教材中每个单元有Text A和Text B两篇阅读材料，对生词、难词加以注释。编者提供的注释有意识地给读者提供一定的选择空间，要求学生作出正确的词义选择。每篇文章配有针对性很强的阅读练习题。回答问题部分和正误判断部分主要是评测学生对原文内容的理解，正确理解原文内容是英语泛读的基本要求。解释原文和英汉翻译是对学生理解能力的更深层次的测试，这两部分互为补充。阅读评述部分旨在训练学生口头和笔头的发挥能力和思维拓展能力，是对原文阅读的进一步延伸。布置课外阅读任务则是为了培养学生的自学能力、研究能力、材料收集能力，使学生不仅能增加阅读量，而且引发更深层的思考。