Unit 1

 Passage 1 Understanding Classics and Recitation

 Passage 2 The Optimist's Creed—Christian D. Larson

Unit 2

 Passage 1 You are What You Do—Mayling Soong

 Passage 2 The Diary of a Young Girl—Anne Frank

Unit 3

 Passage 1 Companionship of Books—Samuel Smiles

 Passage 2 Reading—Henry David Thoreau

Unit 4

 Passage 1 I Have a Dream (Part I) —Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Passage 2 The Period—Charles Dickens

Unit 5

 Passage 1 I Have a Dream (Part II) —Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Passage 2 Inaugural Address—John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Unit 6

 Passage 1 Choice of Companions—William Makepeace Thayer

 Passage 2 The Road Not Taken—Robert Frost

Unit 7

 Passage 1 The Declaration of Independence—Thomas Jefferson

 Passage 2 Fooling the People—Alexander K. McClure

Unit 8

 Passage 1 The Quality of Mercy—William Shakespeare

 Passage 2 Sonnet 18—William Shakespeare

Unit 9

 Passage 1 Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln

 Passage 2 Liberty—Edmund Burke

Unit 10

 Passage 1 If—Joseph Rudyard Kipling

 Passage 2 Courage—Howard Cosell

Unit 11

 Passage 1 These Things Shall Never Die—Charles Dickens

 Passage 2 She Walks in Beauty—George Gordon, Lord Byron

Unit 12

 Passage 1 True Nobility—Ernest Hemingway

 Passage 2 Man is Here for the Sake of Other Men—Albert Einstein

Unit 13

 Passage 1 The Problem of Mankind—Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Passage 2 On Knowledge—W. F. Markwick and W. A. Smith

Unit 14

 Passage 1 1 Corinthians 13—Bible (New International Version)

 Passage 2 Hate—Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unit 15

 Passage 1 In One Word Be a Saint—Baltasar Gracian

 Passage 2 Cultivating Our Hearts

Unit 16

 Passage 1 Of Studies—Francis Bacon

 Passage 2 The Study of Words—Wilfred Funk & Norman Lewis

附录：辜鸿铭的西文学习法

主要参考文献

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