世界经典英语课文选读 13级（下）

Contents

Unit 1 　Culture 

Text 1　Wedding Customs 

Text 2　Knowing Your Taste 

Text 3　The King Herself 

Text 4　Culture Shock 

Unit 2 　Education 

Text 1　Language and Knowledge 

Text 2　Can the Problems Be Solved? 

Text 3　Letters of Application 

Text 4 English Grows into Strange Shapes When Transplanted into Foreign Soil 

Unit 3 　People 

Text 1　Ocean Hero 

Text 2　Thomas Edison 

Text 3　Desiree Davila Targeting Chicago and a Fast Time This Fall 

Text 4　My Year in the Arctic 

Unit 4 　Literary Criticism 

Text 1　The Themes that Shakespeare Explores 

Text 2　New Criticism 

Text 3　Decoding Narrative: Conflict, Stages and Characters 

Text 4　Middle English Literature 

Unit 5 　Literature 

Text 1　Captain Isaiah Sellers 

Text 2　Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1 

Text 3　Icarus and Daedalus 

Text 4　Studies in the Park 

Text 5　Waiting for the Plane 

Text 6　The End of the Affair 

Text 7　Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers 

Unit 6 　Society 

Text 1　A Defense of Advertising 

Text 2　Social Darwinism 

Text 3　Diamond Shipwreck 

Unit 7 　Sports 

Text 1　Fear Factors—Success and Risk in Extreme Sports 

Text 2　Bringing the World Together 

Unit 8 　Science and Technology 

Text 1　Public Support Geoengineering Research, Survey Findings 

Text 2　How to Speak a Book 

Text 3　What Is Science? 

Text 4　Unmasking Virus Writers and Hackers 

Answers for Reference