編輯剛看到選題的時候就被作者另辟蹊徑的宏大構(gòu)思深深吸引住了。本套叢書的選材非常新穎，從世界范圍內(nèi)的英語原版教材中汲取優(yōu)秀素材，按適合中國學生學習的方式整合編排，讓學生在學習規(guī)范語言知識的同時，還可拓展眼界，提高跨文化意識，感受多元文化的魅力。這樣的設(shè)計在市場上是不多見的。
叢書的選文范圍廣泛，低年級以對話、小短文等為主，隨著級別，題材愈加多樣，逐步過渡到有思考深度的哲理性文章，非常符合學習者的心理發(fā)展規(guī)律。
再加上叢書本身版式精美，不少選文非常有趣，可讀性很強，是一套不可多得的英語分級讀物。
Contents
Unit 1 Culture
Text 1 Wedding Customs
Text 2 Knowing Your Taste
Text 3 The King Herself
Text 4 Culture Shock
Unit 2 Education
Text 1 Language and Knowledge
Text 2 Can the Problems Be Solved?
Text 3 Letters of Application
Text 4 English Grows into Strange Shapes When Transplanted into Foreign Soil
Unit 3 People
Text 1 Ocean Hero
Text 2 Thomas Edison
Text 3 Desiree Davila Targeting Chicago and a Fast Time This Fall
Text 4 My Year in the Arctic
Unit 4 Literary Criticism
Text 1 The Themes that Shakespeare Explores
Text 2 New Criticism
Text 3 Decoding Narrative: Conflict, Stages and Characters
Text 4 Middle English Literature
Unit 5 Literature
Text 1 Captain Isaiah Sellers
Text 2 Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
Text 3 Icarus and Daedalus
Text 4 Studies in the Park
Text 5 Waiting for the Plane
Text 6 The End of the Affair
Text 7 Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
Unit 6 Society
Text 1 A Defense of Advertising
Text 2 Social Darwinism
Text 3 Diamond Shipwreck
Unit 7 Sports
Text 1 Fear FactorsSuccess and Risk in Extreme Sports
Text 2 Bringing the World Together
Unit 8 Science and Technology
Text 1 Public Support Geoengineering Research, Survey Findings
Text 2 How to Speak a Book
Text 3 What Is Science?
Text 4 Unmasking Virus Writers and Hackers
Answers for Reference
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