内容简介
本书主要包括各种英文文学名著或诗歌节选，共包括44课。所选课文生动、实用，语言流畅优美，每课课文长短适中，程度适中。课后练习新颖、多样化、有课文提示，问答题、思考题、配以练习等。通过练习，学生可加深对课文的理解，快速有效地提高阅读能力。本书是得到“剑桥英语水平测试证书”的之书。也可作为通“托福考试”的准备用书。
目录
Thanks vii Notes to the user 2 People and personalities 1 Doodles 6 2 Money is the only home 10 3 Shielding Brooke 14 Food and drink 4 The good picnic guide 18 5 Down and Out in Paris and London 22 6 A family lunch in Beirut 26 Houses and safety at home 7 House for sale 30 8 Burgled seven times 36 9 Sissinghurst Castle 40 Jobs and employment 10 24 hours in the life of the City 44 11 How to write a winning resume 48 12 All Greek to me 52 Shopping, consumer affairs, advertising 13 Shopping basket psychology 56 14 Mr Hornby''s casebook 60 15 Commercial break 64 Travel 16 This way for suite dreams 72 17 Clearing customs 76 18 Getting China cracked 80 Wildlife and the environment 19 The capybara 84 20 Save the jungle- save the world 88 21 Beware the dirty seas 92 Medicine and physical condition 22 The sword that can heal 96 23 How to live to be a hundred 100 24 How to help the hard of hearing 104 Transport 25 Sorry sir, sorry, sorry 108 26 Go steady on the gas! 114 27 The Trans-Siberian Express 120 The arts and leisure activities 28 On show 124 29 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 130 30 An away win 136 The media 31 Should the Press be human 140 32 Pregnant Di still wants divorce! 144 33 How do you feel 150 Formal and informal education 34 Childhood: pathways of discovery 15''4 35 Village voice 158 36 Boys are teachers'' pets 162 Taste, fashion and design 37 Good taste, bad taste 166 38 Shot at dawn 172 39 Absolute musts 176 Legal systems, law enforcement, crime 40 Trials arrd errors 182 41 Arresting Scenes in Bombay 188 42 Streetwise 194 Racism, ageism, right or wrong 43 When a sense of nationhood goes off the rails... 200 44 Lucy Rowan''s mother 204 Acknowledgements 208
