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《普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材·普通高等教育“十二五”规划教材：英语泛读教程（第2册）（第2版）》作为英语专业基础阶段的阅读教材旨在扩大学生的词汇量、增强英语语感、丰富英语文化知识、提高人文素养、并培养学生的逻辑思维和形象思维能力，训练略读、寻读、细读和评读等阅读技巧。为满足扩充词汇量、拓展知识面的需要，《普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材·普通高等教育“十二五”规划教材：英语泛读教程（第2册）（第2版）》选题范围广泛，内容丰富；为提高学生的思辨能力和阅读欣赏能力，优先选择具有经典意义和收藏价值的文章，有助于学生从西方传统文化和现代文化中汲取精华，了解西方文化独特的精神内涵。练习题旨在引导学生去解读、思考、分析、批评，并激发学生更强烈的阅读欲望。

Unit One
Text A What to Listen for in Music
Text B The Eloquent Sounds of Silence
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Two
Text A Your Speechls Changing
Text B How to Talk about the World
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Three
Text A A LoveAffairwithBooks
Text B The Lost Art of Reading
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Four
Text A ThinkingasaHobby
Text B The Art of Living Simply
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Five
Text A Once More to the Lake
Text B The Almost Perfect State
Text B Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Six
Text A Middle Age, Old Age
Text B Men Are Very Delicate
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Seven
Text A Beauty
Text B Cinderella''''s Stepsisters
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Eight
Text A In Praise of ldleness
Text B To Err Is Human
rfwenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Nine
Text A On National Prejudice
Text B Politics and the English Language
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Ten
Text A Daydreams of What You''''d Rather Be
Text B Culture and Food Habits
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Eleven
Text A Photographs of My Parents
Text B Two Ways to Belong in America
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading

Unit Twelve
Text A Three Types of Resistance to Oppression
Text B Loneliness... An American Malady
Twenty Minutes'''' Reading