欧美文化阅读文选（上）

作者： 冯艳荣 等编

出 版 社： 吉林大学出版社

出版时间： 2008-1-1字数： 670000版次： 1页数： 330印刷时间： 2008/01/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9787560137407包装： 平装内容简介

这是根据实际教学的需要而编写的一本高等院校英语选修课的教科书，它的编写旨在为学生提供一些欧美文化方面的信息和知识。它是学生们了解欧美文化的一本很好的教学用书，不但能帮助学习者学习和掌握欧美文化方面的基础知识，而且也能提高他们的语言能力和英语表达水平及综合水平。

本书由25个单元构成，每单元4个Reading Passages，共计100篇短文。在每个Reading Passage的后面都设有词汇表、注释和句子翻译或阅读理解练习。这些文章的内容包括西方的精神追求、价值观念、议事方式、知识背景、科技和艺术等方面的情况和成就以及一些综合知识等等。书本的选材以欧美文化为主干，侧重美国文化，都是一些适合教学的质量高的文章，对培养学生的语言修养和文学素质、塑造完美人格、增强跨文化交际意识和文化鉴赏能力都有促进作用。

该书具有知识性、系统性、科学性、时代性、趣味性、新颖性和可读性等，方便教与学、思考和掌握。

目录

Unit One

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Nobel Prizes

Reading Passage Ⅱ Basketry: A Stone Age Craft

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Fortune in Hardwoods

Reading Passage Ⅱ What to Do with Solid Waste

Unit Two

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Introduction to Italy

Reading Passage Ⅱ Italy's Finest Resource--Its People

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Conservation the Future is Now

Reading Passage Ⅱ Pain and Pleasure

Unit Three

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Marco Polo

Reading Passage Ⅱ St. Peter's Basilica

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Early Navigator's Best Friends

Reading Passage Ⅱ Cool, Clear Water

Unit Four

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Gondola of Venice--Floating Symbol of a City

Reading Passage Ⅱ The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Scientists or Dreamers

Reading Passage Ⅱ Marine Mineral Resources

Unit Five

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Hans Christian Andersen

Reading Passage Ⅱ Bernard Shaw

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Our Water Supply

Reading Passage Ⅱ Following the Rules

Unit Six

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ St. Patrick's Day

Reading Passage Ⅱ Mozart

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Cones and Domes

Reading Passage Ⅱ Greece

Unit Seven

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Overview of Vienna

Reading Passage Ⅱ A Safe, High Quality and Easy Way of Living

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Seeing is Believing

Reading Passage Ⅱ Rain Drops Keep Falling

Unit Eight

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Beginning of the Dane--Norse Invasions

Reading Passage Ⅱ Danish Culture

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ A Shaft of Vermont Granite

Reading Passage Ⅱ Island on the Move

Unit Nine

Unit Eleven

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Life of Pablo Picasso

Reading Passage Ⅱ Pop Corn and Potato Chips

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ For the Cause of Liberty

Reading Passage Ⅱ Using Energy Efficiently

Unit Twelve

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Father of Science Fiction--Jules Verne

Reading Passage Ⅱ The Gigantic Optional Illusion

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Clues to The Past

Reading Passage Ⅱ Those Daring Young Men

Unit Thirteen

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Overcoming Cultural Shock

Reading Passage Ⅱ History of Black Harlem

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Problems of Older Americans

Reading Passage Ⅱ Louis Pasteur

Unit Fourteen

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ American Classroom Customs

Reading Passage Ⅱ Canada in the Second World War

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Man behind the Braille System

Reading Passage Ⅱ Income Tax

Unit Fifteen

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ In Search of Good English Food

Reading Passage Ⅱ Origins of Easter Traditions

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Curds and Whey

Reading Passage Ⅱ Henry Ford and the American Automobile

Unit Sixteen

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ New York

Reading Passage Ⅱ Rome

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Table Manners

Reading Passage Ⅱ The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

Unit Seventeen

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Paris

Reading Passage Ⅱ Panama Canal

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Reading Passage Ⅱ From The Christmas Tree and the Wedding by Fyodor Dos

Unit Eighteen

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ The History of Mother's Day

Reading Passage Ⅱ British Bank Holiday

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ From The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Unit Twenty-One

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ An Experience of Watching a Bullfight in Spain

Reading Passage Ⅱ English Language and Culture

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Money

Reading Passage Ⅱ The Cost of Civilization

Unit Twenty-Two

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Samaranch, the Olympic Patriarch

Reading Passage Ⅱ Mt .Rushmore

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Chocolate: Everyone's Favorite Sweet

Reading Passage Ⅱ A Unique Reporting System

Unit Twenty-Three

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Getting Married in USA

Reading Passage Ⅱ Ladies First

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ The Land of Opportunity

Reading Passage Ⅱ Baked, Boiled, or Fried

Unit Twenty-Four

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Free Concerts in Museums, Parks and Public Places

Reading Passage Ⅱ Living a Long Life

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ London--A Good Place to Start Your Tour

Reading Passage Ⅱ Peace for All Mankind

Unit Twenty-Five

Part 1 Reading Passage Ⅰ Abortion and the Death Penalty

Reading Passage Ⅱ Birthday Parties and Potluck Parties

Part 2 Reading Passage Ⅰ Today's Drug Culture

Reading Passage Ⅱ Read the Label

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