快捷通道《高级英语》1、2、3课文内容简介
《高级英语》1 (A New English Course Book 5)
Unit 1 Text One Hit the Nail on the Head
It is significant for a foreign language learner to choose the right word for the right thing so as to achieve the goal of foreign language manipulation.
Unit 4 Text One The Invisible Poor
Poverty is a global problem existing even in the affluent society of
Unit 6 Text One Preparing for College
A correct attitude should be taken towards the entrance-examination for colleges or universities. Examination-oriented preparation and quality-oriented preparation are the educational topics in the early
Unit 8 Text One Why Nothing Works
Murphy’s Law effect—the shoddy goods problem, results from human factors rather than technological ones.
Unit 9 Text One Where is the News Leading Us
The newspapers and the television news programs are so disaster-prone, i.e. “bad news”(eruptive) is mostly reported whereas “good news”(progress which comes in bits and pieces) is neglected. The author argues that the media are obliged to serve as the “public philosopher”, responsible for affecting the public attitude in the right manner, therefore progress (“good news” ) should be reported.
Unit 10 Text One Things: The Threw-Away Society
Man’s relationships with things are increasingly temporary, which is the underlying cause for a throw-away society.
Unit 11 Text One Cultivating a Hobby
The cultivation of a hobby or a new form of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.
Unit 12 Text One The Science of Custom
Custom plays a very important role in shaping the behavior of the individual: No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. Any scientific study of custom requires that there be no preferential weighting of one or another of the items in the series it selects for its consideration.
Unit 15 Text One I Have a Dream
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln 100 years ago. However,
《高级英语》2 (A New English Course Book 6)
Unit 1 Text One Two Words to Avoid, Two to Remember
The sudden flash of insight leaves you a changed person—not only changed, but changed for the better一sometimes from a book, a sermon, a line of poetry. Sometime from a friend.
Unit Two Text One The Fine Art of Putting Things Off
The benefits of procrastination are argued for from the perspectives of both theory and practice.
Unit Six Text One Text One Dull Work
People who achieve much do not necessarily crave for eventful life. The key to their success is their ability to transmute dull and routine into what is momentous.
Unit Seven Text One Beauty
The author calls on women and the whole society to get out of the trap created by the “myth of beauty” and the resulting oppression of women.
Unit Eight Text One Appetite
Keeping wanting is the best way to keep appetite. Specific examples are listed to call people’s attention to the importance of preserving appetite.
Unit Nine Text One A Red Light for Scofflaws
Millions of Americans are taking increasing liberties with the legal codes. Some action should be taken to check it
Unit Ten Text One Straight-A Illiteracy
Being too sophisticated is an intellectual disease and it hazards both the individual and the society.
Unit 13 Text One Euphemism
Euphemism is worth mentioning in spite of its bad reputation.
Unit 15 Text One Teaching as Mountaineering
A comparison of a series of popular analogies is made as a way of building up to the author’s thesis that teaching is best compared to mountaineering.
《高级英语》3 (A New English Course Book 7)
Unit 1 Text One English and American Concepts of Space
If there ever were two cultures in which differences of the proxemic details are marked it is in the educated English and the middle-class Americans.
Unit Two Text One Tourists
This text gives a description of the beautiful natural scene at Torcello, and a description of the behaviors of tourists and the islanders.
Unit Three Text One The Subway
The subway is the living symbol of all that adds up to lack of status in
Unit Four Text One Style and Purpose
The style of a language is expected to be congruous with its purpose and observe the conventions first.
Unit Seven Text One The Aims of Education
The purpose of education is to produce men with both general knowledge and expert knowledge in some special directions.
Unit Nine Text One Roots of Freedom
Freedom can be lost without responsibility. No responsibility, no freedom.