英语时文选读

PrefaceUnit One Men and Women 3Part I Pre-reading Activities 3Part II Reading Tasks 4Passage 1 Terra-cotta Warriors Get ‘Sex Change’4Passage 2 Six Ways to Tackle the Gender Pay Gap7Passage 3 Jane Eyre12Part III Post-reading Tasks 14Part IV Cultural Panorama 15Unit Two Becoming Greener 17Part I Pre-reading Activities 17Part II Reading Tasks 18Passage 1 Now China’s Super Rich Are Fleeing to Avoid Smog 18Passage 2 Six Green Resolutions That Lead to Happiness22Passage 3 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 26Part III Post-reading Tasks 28Part IV Cultural Panorama 29Unit Three Music World 33Part I Pre-reading Activities 33Part II Reading Tasks 34Passage 1 Mounting A Musical Peak34Passage 2 Fascinating, Infuriating, Enduring: Bob Dylan Deserves His Nobel prize38Passage 3 The Old Man And The Sea 43Part III Post-reading Tasks 45Part IV Cultural Panorama 46Unit Four Travelling Around 48Part I Pre-reading Activities 48Part II Reading Tasks 49Passage 1 How to Get the Most out of Visiting World-Famous Sites 49Passage 2 A Museum of Mission54Passage 3 The American Scholar 59Part III Post-reading Tasks 62Part IV Cultural Panorama 63Unit Five Ivory Towers 67 Part I Pre-reading Activities 67