Unit 1 The Power of Rhetoric Text A We Force the Spring Text B Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You Unit 2 Learning and Teaching Text A Miss Sullivan Text B On Being a Scientific Booby Unit 3 Cross-cultural Communication Text A Culture Shock Text B A Canadian Firm' s Negotiation in China Unit 4 Impact of Change Text A The Open Road Text B On Going Home Unit 5 Humor and Irony Text A The Night the Ghost Got In Text B The Verger Unit 6 The Choice of Words Text A Politics and the English Language Text B The Choice of Words Unit 7 Nature and Civilization Text A Who Killed King Kong? Text B Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit Unit 8 Women's Consciousness Text A A Room of One's Own Text B Feminist Consciousness after the Women' s Movement Unit 9 National Character Text A Paradox and Dream Text B The European's America (23 October i952) Unit 10 The Short Story Text A MissBrill Text B The Gift of the Magi Unit 11 Education Text A The School and Social Progress Text B Education by Poetry Unit 12 Treasuryof Fantasy Text A Tom Edison' s Shaggy Dog Text B Harry Potter and the Philosopher" S Stone Unit 13 Human Folly Text A The Folly of Discontent with One's Own Lot Text B The Picture of Dorian Gray Unit 14 Human Quest Text A Yali'sQuestion Text B The Wanderer from Thus Spoke Zarathustra 生词总表