《21世紀大學英語》在選材上注重內(nèi)容的趣味性、信息性、可思性和前瞻性,語言的規(guī)范性、致用性和文體的多樣性。課文絕大多數(shù)選自20世紀80、90年代出版的英美報刊書籍,為適合教學目的對部分內(nèi)容做了一些刪改。
本書為《21世紀大學英語讀寫教程》第三冊。全書共十個單元,供一學期使用。每一單元由同一題材的三篇文章組成。課文A為精讀材料,配有閱讀詞匯、結(jié)構(gòu)、翻譯、寫作等多種練習,課文B、C不泛讀材料,課文B前系統(tǒng)介紹各種基本閱讀技能,課文后配有閱讀理解練習題。
Unit One
Text A How 1 Got Smart
Text B Coming of Age
Text C Romance and Reality
Unit Two
Text A The Titanic Puzzle Should a good feminist accept priority seating on a lifeboat
Text B Unjust Desserts
Text C Will You Go Out With Me?
Unit Three
Text A The Sense of Wonder
Text B The Innocent Eye
Text C If l Were
Unit Four
Text A College Pressures
Text B College Lectures:ls Anybody Listening
Text C What ls College for?
Unit Five
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A:America seen with European Eyes
Text B American Values and Assumption
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist's Observation of Americans
Unit Six
Text A Every 23 Minutes
Text B Needed:A License to Drink
Text C My Daughter Smokes
Unit Seven
Text A So What's So Bad About Being So-So?
Text B Stripping Down to Bare Happiness
Text C Quality of Life ls Much More Than a Job
Unit Eight
Text A The Highs of Low Technology
Text B Why I'm Not Going to Buy a Computer
Text C Obsolete Technology
Unit Nine
Text A Space Politics
Text B Message to the Unknown
Text C Your Futrue in Space
Unit Ten
Text A Plain Talk About Handing Stress
Text B Engrgy Walks
Text C Five Methods l Have Used to Banish Worry
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