这套教材是为英语专业基础阶段的学生编写的。但由于该教材对阅读理论和技巧有较详细和系统的介绍，它也可供非英语专业的学生、参加自学考试的人员和其他英语爱好者使用。本册为第三册，课文选材的基本主题是东西方文化，该教材又可以作为跨文化交际的入门读本来使用。在文化这一主题的统领下，尽可能选择各种体裁的文章，以增强学习者对不同类型语篇之间的互通。

Unit 9 Language

Reading skills Types of questions

Lesson Thirty-three

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

TextA "Mamma" and "Papa".

Text B Teaching Human Language to Chimpanzees

Lesson Thirty-four

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Language Development in the School: Oral Genres.

Text B Second Language Acquisition

Lesson Thirty-five

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Bilingual Education in Canada

Text I3 Immigration and Education

Lesson Thirty-six

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Language and Languages

Text B Four Pitfalls of the Teaching of Culture Studies..,

Unit 10 Literature

Reading Skills Interaction between the text and the reader..

Lesson Thirty-seven

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises.

Text B Are Women's Novels Feminist Novels?

Lesson Thirty-eight

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Function of Literature

Text B Limits of Literature

Lesson Thirty-nine

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Oscar Wilde

Text B Bleak House

Lesson Forty

Preliminary Vocabulary Test.

Text A Interrogating "Whiteness," Complicating "Blackness": RemappingAmerican Culture.

Text B Black Culture.

Unit 11 Famous Short Stories

Reading skills Interaction with schema

Lesson Forty-one

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A The Jack Rabbit Drive

Text B American Puritanism

Lesson Forty-two

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A The Grave

Text B American Romanticism

Lesson Forty-three

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Lena

Text B Ernest Hemingway(1898-1961):After the Storm

Lesson Forty-four

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A The Tell-tale Heart

Text B Stones

Unit 12 Religion

Reading Skills Fast reading skills

Lesson Forty-five

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Christianity

Text B The American Character

Lesson Forty-six

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Taoism and Modernity

Text B The Notion of Chan

Lesson Forty-seven

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A The Struggle within Islamism

Text B Distinguishing Between Islam and Islamism.

Lesson Forty-eight

Preliminary Vocabulary Test

Text A Universal Rights and Cultural Relativism: Hinduism and Islam Deconstructed

Text B What Is a Hindu Kingdom?

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