《新大学英语文化对比阅读》自2015年由高等教育出版社出版以来，在全国高校得到广泛使用，受到好评。为了更好地服务国家发展战略，满足新时代外语人才培养的需要，我们对教材进行了修订，调整了单元框架结构，更新了部分单元主题和课文，修订并增补了相关练习题。
本次修订为第二版，以对比中外文化、开阔国际视野、增强文化自信、讲好中国故事为宗旨，从教学实际出发，兼顾英语的工具性和人文性，在培养英语阅读能力的同时，帮助学生通过理解、领悟、吸收、鉴赏、评价和探究等阅读活动，分析文化现象，品鉴中外文化，达到丰富思想、训练思维、培养跨文化能力的目的，从而进一步提升综合素养，提高用英文讲述中国故事的能力。

UNIT 1 Festival Celebration
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A Digging Up the Roots of Holiday Traditions： Chinese New Year
Text B Brave New Christmas
Improving Reading Ability
Reading for Knowledge
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNIT 2 Parenting Styles
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A Practice Makes Perfect！ Meet the Demanding "Tiger Mothers"
Text B America's Four Parenting Cultures
Improving Reading Ability
Reading for Pleasure
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNIT 3 Teaching Innovation
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A China Ramps Up Tech Education in a Bid to Catch Up on Artificial Intelligence
Text B Are College Campuses Obsolete?
Improving Reading Ability
Selective Reading
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNIT 4 Fast Food
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A The Rise of Panda Express
Text B How McDonald's Changed the Way We Eat in Britain
Improving Reading Ability
Critical Reading
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNI5 Table Manners
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text 055
Text A The Yum Cha Rules You Need to Know
Text B How to Use Utensils at a Formal Dinner: Tips for Surviving a Formal Dinner
Party
Improving Reading Ability
Avoiding Inner Speech
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNIT 6 Film Stars
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A Bruce Lee
Text B Audrey Hepburn: Why the Fuss?
Improving Reading Ability
Avoiding Vocalization
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
Special Numbers
UNIT 7 Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A The Lucky Number Eight
Text B The Origin of Friday the 13th as an Unlucky Day
Improving Reading Ability
Avoiding Too Many Eye Fixations
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNIT 8 Love Story
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A Liang-Zhu, More Than Just a Love Story
Text B Romeo and Juliet: Not the Greatest Love Story
Improving Reading Ability
Avoiding Habitual Regression
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNIT 9 Life Styles
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A More Chinese Choose "Zero Waste" Lifestyle
Text B Minimalism Movement Takes Hold in Consumer-Driven U.S.
Improving Reading Ability
Tolerating Unfamiliar Words
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
UNIT 10 New Generatlons
Exploring the Topic
Understanding the Text
Text A Young Chinese: A Red Generation Confident in Themselves and Their Country
Text B Are Millennials Really the "Me" Generation?
Improving Reading Ability
Avoiding Mental Translation
Enhancing Cultural Awareness
Taking a Global Perspective
Telling Chinese Stories
Assessing Your Learning
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