亚历山大(L.G.Alexander),世界有名英语教学权威,曾任欧洲世界现代语言教学委员会理事。其著作为交际教学法奠定基础,其中一些如NCE等已成经典教材。金伯里斯(Roy Kingsbury),资深教师和英语教材编写者,与亚历山大合作多年,合编多部教材。近年主要从事语言测试研究。著作有Longman First Cerlificate等。
何其莘,现任北京外国语大学副校长、英美文学教授、博士生导师。著有《英国文艺复兴时期文学史》、《英国戏剧选读》和LISTEN TO THIS等。
目录
Lesson 1 Finding fossil man
Lesson 2 Spare that spider
Lesson 3 Matterhorn man
Lesson 4 Seeing hands
Lesson 5 Youth
Lesson 6 The sporting spirit
Lesson 7 Bats
Lesson 8 Trading standards
Lesson 9 Royal espionage
Lesson 10 Silicon Valley
Lesson 11 How to grow old
Lesson 12 Banks and their customers
Lesson 13 The search for oil
Lesson 14 The butterfiy Effect
Lesson 15 Secrecy in industry
Lesson 16 The modern city
Lesson 17 A man-made-disease
Lesson 18 Porpoises
Lesson 19 The stuff of dreams
Lesson 20 Snake poison
Lesson 21 William S.Hart and the early ‘Western’film
Lesson 22 Knowledge and progress
Lesson 23 Bird flight
Lesson 24 Beauty
Lesson 25 Non-auditory effects of noisc
Lesson 26 The past life of the earth
Lesson 27 The ‘Vasa’
Lesson 28 Patients and doctors
Lesson 29 The hovercraft
Lesson 30 Exploring the sea-floor
Lesson 31 The sculptor speaks
Lesson 32 Galileo reborn
Lesson 33 Educarion
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