本书培养高素质、复合型外语创新人才;理念新颖人文、科学知识融入教材;特色明显覆盖知识,技能、文化等科目,总数超过150种;体系完备全国30余所**高校百余位英语教育专家参加编写;阵容强大。“新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材”的编写和出版,不仅能满足21世纪英语人才培养的需要,其前瞻性、先进性和创新性也将为外语乃至其他学科教材的编写开辟一条新的思路,拓展一片新的视野。

UNIT 1
TEXT 1 Technology in Reverse
TEXT 2 War on the Farm
UNIT 2
TEXT 1 A Class ACt
TEXT 2 To Build a Kingdom of Love
UNIT 3
TEXT 1 Bards ofthe Internet
TEXT 2 Always On
UNIT 4
TEXT 1 Disney World:Cities 01"Simulation as Postmodern Utopias
TEXT 2 Las Vegas:Postmodern City of Casirtos amt Simulation.
UNIT 5
TEXT 1 What Are Our Real Values?
TEXT 2 American Values
UNIT 6
TEXT 1 Matriculation Fixation
TEXT 2 Who NeedsHarvard?
UNIT 7
TEXT 1 A FewKind WordsforSuperstition
TEXT 2 The fortune teller
UNIT 8
TEXT 1 Being There.
TEXT 2 Cuhuraf Habits.
UNIT 9
TEXT 1 I'd Rather Be Black Than Female
TEXT 2 Are Women Prejudiced Against Women?
UNIT 10
TEXT 1 Two Truths to Live By.
TEXT 3 Intoxicated by My Illness
UNIT 11
TEXT 1 How to Grow Old
TEXT 2 Nearing90
UNIT 12
TEXT 1 If Black English lsn’t a Language,Then Tell Me,What Is?
TEXT 2 Hyphenated Confusion
UNIT 13
TEXT 1 Sweet September
TEXT 2 The Heart of the Seasons
UNIT 14
TEXT 1 My Wood
TEXT 2 Town Lire
UNIT 15
TEXT 1 On Reading
TEXT 2 Why We Read
UNIT 16
TEXT 1 Friendship
TEXT 2 American Friendship
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