Unit 1 The Power of Rhetoric 1
Text A We Force the Spring / 2
Text B Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You / 14
Unit 2 Learning and Teaching 18
Text A Miss Sullivan / 18
Text B On Being a Scientific Booby / 26
Unit 3 Cross-cultural Communication33
Text A Culture Shock / 34
Text B A Canadian Firm’s Negotiation in China / 42
Unit 4 Impact of Change47
Text A The Open Road / 47
Text B On Going Home / 55
Unit 5 Humor and Irony 60
Text A The Night the Ghost Got In / 60
Text B The Verger / 68
Unit 6 The Choice of Words 73
Text A Politics and the English Language / 74
Text B The Choice of Words / 86
Unit 7 Nature and Civilization93
Text A Who Killed King Kong? / 94
Text B Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit / 106
Unit 8 Women’s Consciousness 113
Text A A Room of One’s Own / 113
Text B Feminist Consciousness after the Women’s Movement / 124
Unit 9 National Character129
Text A Paradox and Dream / 129
Text B The European’s America (23 October 1952) / 140
Unit 10 The Short Story148
Text A Miss Brill / 148
Text B The Gift of the Magi / 157
Unit 11 Education 163
Text A The School and Social Progress / 164
Text B Education by Poetry / 172
Unit 12 Treasury of Fantasy178
Text A Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog / 178
Text B Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone / 186
Unit 13 Human Folly 196
Text A The Folly of Discontent with One’s Own Lot / 196
Text B The Picture of Dorian Gray / 206
Unit 14 Human Quest 211
Text A Yali’s Question / 211
Text B The Wanderer from Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 220
生词总表 Vocabulary 225