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本书根据《高等学校英语专业高年级英语大纲》的要求,并结合复旦大学外文系近年来的教学经验编写而成。
全书共12课,选自英美等国各种不同文体的原版作品。每课包括课文、作者简介和注释、练习、文体知识、辅助阅读材料五部分。课文内容生动、难度适中,篇幅长度平均为3000词左右;作者简介主要介绍作家时代、生平与其重要著作;注释部分简要解释有关历史背景知识、专有名词以及外来语等等;练习多为问题与提示、词语训练及综合性练习,诸如完形填空、段落翻译、口头讨论以及指导性写作;文体知识包括一般文体知识与一些主要修辞手段;辅助阅读材料附于正式课文后,一般为两篇,长短不等,题材、风格相同或不同,供学生探讨。
本书取材广泛,语言规范,内容编排系统,难点解析透彻,因而具有趣味性、知识性和实用性三大特点,有仅适用于高等学校英语专业高年级精读课,同时也可供有相当英语基础的非英语专业学生和英语自学者学习使用。
目录
LESSON ONE
Text:A Trip for Mrs.Taylor HUGH GARNER
Further Reading:Christmas FLOYD DELL
LESSON TWO
Text:Disney's Worlds LUCETTE ROLLET KENAN
Further Reading:A Profile of Walt Disney LUCETTE ROLLET KENAN
LESSON THREE
Text:What Is Style ALAN WARNER
Further Reading:Please Do Not Spit ALAN WARNER
LESSON FOUR
Text:A Mild Attack of Locusts DORIS LESSING
Further Reading:To Build a Fire JACK LONDON
LESSON FIVE
Text:Professions for Women VIRGINIA WOOLF
Further Reading:Beauty SUSAN SONTAG
LESSON SIX
Text:On the Way to Cerveterri D.H.LAWRENCE
Further Reading:Dance of the Sprouting Corn D.H.LAWRENCE
LESSON SEVEN
Text:A Visit to Walt Whitman EDMUND GOSSE
Further Reading:The Samphire Gatherer W.H.HUDSON
LESSON EIGHT
Text:The Patterns of Eating PETER FARB & GEORGE ARMELAGOS
Further Reading:Eating and Sleeping CORBY KUMMER
LESSON NINE
Text:What Life Means to Me JACK LONDON
Further Reading:The Rhythm of Life MARY E. MEBANE
LESSON TEN
Text:Hemingway and Fitzgerald MORLEYCALLAGHAN
Further Reading:My last Days in Paris MORLEY CALLAGHAN
LESSON ELEVEN
Text:Anglo vs.Chicano:Why? ARTHUR L. CAMPA
Further Reading:Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrasts BRUCE CATTON
LESSON TWELVE
Text:Wittgenstein,a Personal View M.O'S DRURY
Further Reading:Wittgenstein,Popper and the Vienna Circle A.J.AYER