教材课文是学习语言、获取知识，了解世界，完成教学任务，实现教学目标，培养人才不可或缺的重要素材、资源和载体。本系列图书荟萃百年来全世界范围内，英语国家和非英语国家所使用的英语教材中的经典课文，辅以必要的导读、注释、习题等阅读帮助，为广大英语学习者提供高品质的语言、知识和文化等素材和资源。在阅读、赏析的同时，提高语言素养，丰富知识，进而提升核心素养，为学习者成为具有全球胜任力的人才，打下英语、知识和跨文化的扎实功底。

教材课文是学习语言、获取知识，了解世界，完成教学任务，实现教学目标，培养人才不可或缺的重要素材、资源和载体。本系列图书荟萃百年来全世界范围内，英语国家和非英语国家所使用的英语教材中的经典课文，辅以必要的导读、注释、习题等阅读帮助，为广大英语学习者提供高品质的语言、知识和文化等素材和资源。在阅读、赏析的同时，提高语言素养，丰富知识，进而提升核心素养，为学习者成为具有全球胜任力的人才，打下英语、知识和跨文化的扎实功底。

Unit 1 Education
Text 1 Immortal Words
Text 2 The Functions of Education: The Functionalist View
Text 3 Not Just Child’s Play
Text 4 Why Is the Native Language Learnt So Well
Text 5 The Memory Palace
Unit 2 Culture
Text 1 I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Goth
Text 2 The Purposes of Art
Text 3 Third Culture Kids
Text 4 Finding Balance in Food
Text 5 Hip-Hop Planet
Unit 3 Literature
Text 1 Private Lives
Text 2 Education for Life
Text 3 Shades of Dreaming
Text 4 The Perfect Peppersoup
Text 5 The Glorious Whitewasher
Unit 4 Literary Criticism
Text 1 Jane Austen and Women’s Emancipation
Text 2 Storytelling Is as Old as Mankind
Unit 5 Animals
Text 1 Harp Seals on Thin Ice After 32 Years of Warming
Text 2 Thanking the Birds
Text 3 The Nature of Intelligence
Unit 6 Society
Text 1 Can Couples Afford to Get Married Anymore?
Text 2 How to Make a Strong First Impression
Text 3 Unusual Places to Stay
Text 4 Room with a View
Text 5 Success Across Generations
Text 6 Teenagers Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Unit 7 Science and Technology
Text 1 Human Adaptation to Space
Text 2 One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Text 3 The Death of Writing?
Text 4 We Are Cyborgs
Text 5 Us and Them
Text 6 Viewing Nature’s Beauty Through a New Lens
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