本教材的開發和編寫遵循了內容語言融合的教育理念(content and LanguageIntegration，CLI)，圍繞主要英語國家的經典散文作品實施教學。以優質的文學語料作為教學內容，鼓勵學生對散文作品進行細讀，不僅可以幫助學生掌握語言知識和語言技能，還能對學生專業知識結構的構建及綜合素質的提升起到積極作用。 本教材以英語文學中的散文名篇為主要內容。全書分為15個單元，每個單元設置主課文一篇，補充閱讀課文一篇，課文內容依照同一主題進行編排，涵蓋了30篇膾炙人口的散文經典之作。課文選材充分考慮到學生的閱讀興趣、語言難度、篇幅長短等因素，併兼顧思想內涵與文學風格的多樣性。教材中各單元的主題涉及青春、友情、愛情、自然、死亡、習慣、時間、教育、文化、藝術等，既符合大學生的認知需求和情感取向，又易於與日常話題結合，能充分激發學生的閱讀興趣，有助於教師組織教學。
作者介紹
編者:傅瓊|責編:陶怡|總主編:常俊躍
目錄
Unit 1 Youth Text A Advice to Youth by Mark Twain Text B Of Youth andAge by Francis Bacon Unit 2 Friendship Text A The Decay of Friendship by Samuel Johnson Text B Seeing People Off by Max Beerbohm Unit 3 Love 3s Text A Why We Fall in Love by M. Scott Peck Text B Of Love by Francis Bacon Unit4 Nature so Text A Autumn Sunset by Henry David Thoreau Text B Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson Unit 5 Maturity Text A Middle Age, Old Age by William Somerset Maugham Text B How to Grow Old by Bertrand Russell Unit 6 Book Text A Book-buying by Augustine Birrell Text B How Should One Read a Book by Virginia Woolf Unit 7 Death 8s Text A On Natural Death by Lewis Thomas Text B Thoughts in Westminster Abbey by Joseph Addison Unit 8 Habit Text A Getting Up on Cold Mornings by Leigh Hunt Text B On Idleness by Samuel Johnson Unit9 Time Text A Toy Farm by J. B. Priestley Text B On Being Modern-minded by Bertrand Russell Unit 10 Education Text A UniversityDays by]ames Thurber Text B Harrow (Excerpt) by Winston S. Churchill Unit 11 Culture Text A Impressions of America by Oscar Wilde Text B The English and the Americans by Edward T. Hall Unit 12 Art Text A The Artist and the World by Joyce Cary Text B Take Your Home into Your Own Hands ! by Evelyn Waugh Unit 13 War Text A Sunday Before the War by Arthur Clutton-Brock Text B The Ecstasy of War by Barbara Ehrenreich Unit 14 Life Text A July by Alice Meynell Text B On Going a Journey by William Hazlitt Unit 15 People Text A Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else by Samuel Crothers Text B A Little Great Man by Oliver Goldsmith Keys
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