本书是高等学校英语专业教材，由北京外国语大学杨立民教授担任总主编，北外优秀教师共同编写，可供高等院校英语类专业一年级上学期使用。全书共12单元，每单元由A、B两个选篇组成，选篇经典，练习丰富，涵盖词汇、语法、翻译、口语、写作等全方面语言训练，同时兼顾人文素养的培养。为方便师生使用，本书还配有教师用书。为满足学生的移动学习需求，第三版教材开发数字课程，助力高校实现线上线下混合式教学模式。

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Pronunciation Table
Unit 1
Text A Halfa Day
Text B Making the Grade
Unit 2
Text A Message of the Land
Text B The Son from America
Unit 3
Text A Midnight Visitor
Text B Double Cross
Unit 4
Text A The Nightingale andtheRose
Text B The Nightingale
Unit 5
Text A The Green Banana
Text B Cutting Across Cultures
Unit 6
Text A After Twenty Years
Text B Hearts and Hands
Unit 7
Text A Like the Sun
Text B TheWaysWeLie
Unit 8
Text A Maheegun My Brother
Text B A Secret for Two
Unit 9
Text A The Greatest Invention
Text B Galileo,the Stargazer Who Defied the World
Unit 10
Text A What Happiness Is
Text B Worry．Don’t Be Happy
Unit 11
Text A Christmas Day in the Morning
Text B “Yes,Daddy,I Promise．”
Unit 12
Text A The MonstersAre Due on Maple Street
Text B Who Shall Dwell
Grammar Terms