新编高级英语(BOOK1上学生用书高等院校英语专业系列教材)

本教材选用了来自互联网、国内外英语报刊杂志和书籍的英语资料，并对其中的一部分作了节选或改写。采用主题形式编排。本书为《新编高级英语》(上册)的学生用书。本册教材共12个单元，每个单元具有明确的教学目标。其中以大幅度提高学生理解能力为主要目标，兼顾听、说、写译能力的提高。 本教材适用于英语专业高年级学生，也可作为非英语专业学生、英语爱好者达到四、六级大学英语水平后，进一步提高英语语言能力的精读教材。

UNIT 1
UNIT 2
UNIT 3
UNIT 4
UNIT 5
UNIT 6
UNIT 7
UNIT 8
UNIT 9
UNIT 10
UNIT 11
UNIT 12
Appendix 1 Sample Test in Advanced English for English Majors
Appendix 2 Key to Sample Test in Advanced English for English Majors
Appendix 3 Vocabulary
Appendix 4 Grammatical and Rhetorical Terms
References

1. Questions
1) Para 1: What does "along cultural and civilization lines" mean? Andwhat about "along that crucial dimension"?
2) Para 2. What does "power" mean in "no significant major powers, andmany minor powers"? Besides, Huntington has mentioned the word "power"three times in the 1st paragraph. Do they have the same meaning as the one inParagraph 2?
3) Para 2. Does "the Cold War" in "a bipolar system like the Cold War" re-fer to "the severe political struggle between the US and the Soviet Union fromthe end of WII in 1945 until the latter collapsed in 1991, which, though very se-vere did not lead to actual fighting"? Why?
4) Para 2. Does "cooperate and compete with each other in shifting pat-terns" mean that the methods employed by the countries in their cooperation andcompetition change from time to time?
5) Para 4. Do you agree to the interpretation of the sentence concerningRome and China as follows, internal decay weakened fifth-century Rome andforces from outside weakened nineteenth-century China? Give reasons from thetext and your own.
6) Para 4. Explain in your own words why the bipolar system in the ColdWar endures for four decades.
7) Para, 4. What do the "one state" and "the rivalry" in "until one state nolonger could sustain the rivalry" refer to? How did the bipolar system in theCold War end?
8) Para 5. What does "actor" mean and refer to?
9) Para 5: Does "power-wielder" mean an official, who has administrativepower over his subordinates and the common people?
10) Para 6.. Why does Huntington say "the United States will be the first,last and only global superpower"?