Unit 1 The Power of Rhetoric 1 Text A We Force the Spring / 2 Text B Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You / 14 Unit 2 Learning and Teaching 18 Text A Miss Sullivan / 18 Text B On Being a Scientific Booby / 26 Unit 3 Cross-cultural Communication33 Text A Culture Shock / 34 Text B A Canadian Firm’s Negotiation in China / 42 Unit 4 Impact of Change47 Text A The Open Road / 47 Text B On Going Home / 55 Unit 5 Humor and Irony 60 Text A The Night the Ghost Got In / 60 Text B The Verger / 68 Unit 6 The Choice of Words 73 Text A Politics and the English Language / 74 Text B The Choice of Words / 86 Unit 7 Nature and Civilization93 Text A Who Killed King Kong? / 94 Text B Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit / 106 Unit 8 Women’s Consciousness 113 Text A A Room of One’s Own / 113 Text B Feminist Consciousness after the Women’s Movement / 124 Unit 9 National Character129 Text A Paradox and Dream / 129 Text B The European’s America (23 October 1952) / 140 Unit 10 The Short Story148 Text A Miss Brill / 148 Text B The Gift of the Magi / 157 Unit 11 Education 163 Text A The School and Social Progress / 164 Text B Education by Poetry / 172 Unit 12 Treasury of Fantasy178 Text A Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog / 178 Text B Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone / 186 Unit 13 Human Folly 196 Text A The Folly of Discontent with One’s Own Lot / 196 Text B The Picture of Dorian Gray / 206 Unit 14 Human Quest 211 Text A Yali’s Question / 211 Text B The Wanderer from Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 220 生词总表 Vocabulary 225