本书为中美专家合作编写,是一套缜密切入英美文化各个层面,培养英语运用能力的有机教程。此套教材的教学基本理念是:把学术焦点放在中西文化的表里差异中,以培养准确、纯正的英语,从而生动无碍地掌握语言技能。与国内现有同类教材相比,本套教材有以下特点:
全部文章采用英文原文,力图保持原汁原味;
切入英语文化的各个层面、各个情景,以期在更大的语境中提高学生的语言理解和运用能力;
深入英语文化,将焦点放在中外文化的差异上,并配有互动式练习。
本套教材不仅适用于高校英语专业学生,也适用于入学时英语水平较高的非英语专业英语,以及有一定英语基础而准备出国深造的英语学习者。

Unit 1 Being Ethnic in the U.S.
Colsw Reading None of This Is Fair
Further Reading I.Growing Up Asian in America
II.Cultural Baggage
Listening How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Writing Why Blacks Need Affirmative Action
Unit 2 Language and Society
Colse Reading If Black English Isn't Language,Then Tell Me,What Is?
Further Reading I.Softening the Stories for Chidren
II.To the Victor Belongs the Language
Listening English a Crazy Laguage
Writhing Fairy Tales and Modern Stories
Unit 3 Gun Control in Debate
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Unit 4 Television and Violence
Unit 5 Gender and Sexuality
Unit 6 Imaging Beauty
Unit 7 Cyber-space: The New Frontier
Unit 8 Sex Education
Unit 9 The Entertainment Business
Unit 10 The Divorce Debate
Unit 11 Leisure and Pastime
Unit 12 How Free Should Media Be
Unit 13 Racial Discrimination and Its Manifestations
Unit 14 Man in Nature
Unit 15 Family Values
Unit 16 Trashing the Planet