本书有8个单元,课文主题丰富,涵盖社会、经济、历史、文化、科技等领域,符合当代大学生的认知和兴趣特点,满足大学生思想、情感和学习等多维度的需求,选材注重视野的广度和思维的深度,从不同的角度分析、阐释问题,培养学生以多元的视角审视个人、社会和世界。
Unit 1 Fresh start
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Text A Toward a brighter future for all
Text B What we wish
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Unit 2 Loving parents, loving children
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Text A A child's clutter awaits aadult's return
Text B Time slows down
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Unit 3 Digital campus
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Text A College life ithe Internet age
Text B Too much of a good thing - A real addiction
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Unit 4 Heroes of our time
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Text A Heroes among us
Text B A hero's aspiration
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Unit 5 Winning is not everything
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Text A Cliff Young, aunlikely hero
Text B Shaping young lives with sports
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Unit 6 Earas you learn
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Text A To work or not to work - That is the question
Text B Earas you learn
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Unit 7 Hoping for the better
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Text A Whehonesty disappears
Text B Rays of hope irising rudeness
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nit 8 Friendship across gender and border
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Text A Gender variables ifriendship: Contradictioor not
Text B Similarities and differences: Friendship across cultures
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Glossary