本教程主要选取了英美两国传统的经典美文,以及现当代散文、杂文、政论文等,选材围绕“友谊”“家庭”“婚姻”“教育”“自然”“城市与乡村”等经典话题,以及“美与美容业”“语言的政治”“男性与女性气质”“规训与惩罚”等现当代热门话题展开。全书共十八个单元,每个单元主题下都有三篇观点相似或者视角完全不同的散文,目的是呈现同一个话题的不同层面,有助于打开学习者视野,培养思辨能力。本教程练习编写理念新颖,强调学习者的深度参与,有助于全面提高学习者的语言能力,以及阅读、欣赏、分析、审美和判断能力。
Unit 1University Life & Education
Your College Years
Universities and Their Function(Excerpt)
Education and Discipline
Unit 2Manners
Of Ceremonies & Respects
A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding
On Being a Bore
Unit 3The Art of Conversation
Conversation
Why Don’t We Complain?
The Art of a Lively Conversation
Unit 4Family and Friendship
The Art of Pleasing—A Letter to His Son
Treatise on Parents and Children(Excerpt)
On a Faithful Friend
Unit 5Love and Marriage
Of Marriage and Single Life
The Cons of Marriage
Love Letters to Nora
Unit 6Socialization
The Vice of Punctuality
On the Art of Living with Others
Seeing People Off
Unit 7Nature
Nature
The Death of the Moth
Once More to the Lake
Unit 8Portrait of People
Sunday in the Country
Dream-Children: A Reverie
Delight
Unit 9City and Countryside
Rural Life in England
On the Cries of London
A Passion for Cities
Unit 10Politics and Life
The Apology of Socrates
A Modest Proposal
Insouciance
Unit 11Life Philosophy
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life
The Pleasure of Ignorance
On Being Modern-Minded
Unit 12Books and Reading
How Should One Read a Book?
Are Books an Endangered Species?
How to Mark a Book
Unit 13Beauty and the Beauty Industry
Beauty
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
The Beauty Industry
Unit 14The Politics of Language
Sexism in English: A 1990s Update
Against the Theory of “Sexist Language”
Mother Tongue
Unit 15Femininity and Masculinity
Femininity
The Crisis of Masculinity and the Politics of Identity
The Appeal of the Androgynous Man
Unit 16Psychology and Health
Mourning and Melancholia
Two Natural Propensities
Anxiety Is the Class Uniform
Unit 17Discipline and Punishment
The Death Penalty
Death and Justice
Punishment Never Cures Anything
Unit 18Elitism and Egalitarianism
In Defense of Elitism
The Museum of Clear Ideas
Jefferson and the Equality of Men
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