欧美文化阅读文选·上

出版时间：2008-2  出版社：吉林大学  作者：刘文华[等]主编  页数：330  

内容概要

　　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。

书籍目录

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 PleasureUnit 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 ResourcesUnit 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 RulesUnit 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  GreeceUnit 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 FallingUnit 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 MoveUnit NineUnit 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 EfficientlyUnit 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 MenUnit 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 PasteurUnit 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 TaxUnit 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 AutomobileUnit 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 CollinsUnit 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 DosUnit 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 ChopinUnit 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 CivilizationUnit 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 SystemUnit 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 FriedUnit 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 MankindUnit 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 LabelAnswers

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Italy is one of Europe's most complex and alluring destinations. A modem, industrializednation, with an artistic and architectural legacy that few other countries can rival, it's also aMediterranean country with a Southern European sensibility, where traditional attitudes stillprevail. Thriving small businesses contribute to strong regional identities, helping Italy avoidsome of the bland effects of globalization. In towns and villages all over the country, life grindsto a halt in the middle of the day for a long lunch, and is strongly family-oriented, with anemphasis on the traditions of the Catholic Church, which, notwithstanding a growing skepticismamong the country's youth, still dominates people's lives.Above all, Italy provokes reaction. Its people are rarely indifferent, and on one and thesame day you might encounter the kind of disdain dished out to tourist masses everywhere andan hour later be treated to embarrassingly generous hospitality. If there is a single nationalcharacteristic, it's to embrace life to the full: in the hundreds of local festivals taking placeacross the country on any given day, to celebrate a saint or the local harvest; in the importanceplaced on good food; in the obsession with clothes and image; and above all in the dailydomestic ritual of the collective evening stroll or passeggiata——a sociable affair celebrated byyoung and old alike in every town and village across the country.Italy is a peninsula, shaped rather like a boot, jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea. Itcovers a surtaee area of 30 i,230 square km and includes me islands or Sarctinia and Siciiyl I nedistance from the tip of the country's "toe" to its northern border is about 1380kin. Much of theland is mountainous, the highest point being Mont Blanc （4748m） in the north. Italy's population is nearly 58 million, with around 3 million living in the capital, Rome.The dominant ethnic group is Italian, with small clusters of German-, French- andSlovene-Italians in the north and Albanian- and Greek-Italians in the south. There is also agrowing Muslim immigrant community.

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