本课程是非英语专业本科学生必修的通识文化课，旨在指导学生在深入学习课文的基础上，从词、句、语篇等角度进行听、说、读、写、译多方面的语言操练，着重培养学生的英语语言能力和综合应用能力。主要内容为当代英语的常见语体或文体的典型样本，语言规范，题材广泛，题材多样，兼顾书面语和口语，注重介绍文化背景和知识拓展。本课程不仅是一门语言基础课程，也是拓宽知识、了解世界文化的素质教育课程，兼有工具性和人文性，充分体现了对学生的文化素质培养和国际文化知识的传授。本课程可作为大学一年级入学的必修课程，也可作为高中毕业学生在进入大学之前的学习指导课。

• Unit 1 Growing up
  • 1.1
  • 1.1 PPT
  • 1.2 Cultural Study and Practice
• Unit 2 Friendship Text A All the Cabbie Had Was a Letter
  • 2.1 Global Analysis
  • 2.2 Cultural Study and Practice
• Unit 3 Understanding Science Text A Public Attitudes Toward Science
  • 3.1 Global Analysis
  • 3.2 Cultural Study and Practice
• Unit 4 The American Dream Text A Tony Trivisonno’s American Dream
  • 4.1 Global Analysis
  • 4.2 Cultural Study and Practice
• Unit 5 Work to Live or Live to Work Text A The Company Man
  • 5.1 Global Analysis
  • 5.2 Language Study and Practice
• Unit 6 Romance
  • 6.1 Cultural Study and Practice
  • 6.2 Global Analysis
• Unit 7 Animal Intelligence Text A What Animals Really Think
  • 7.1 Cultural Study and Practice
• Unit 8 Educational Problems Text A Fable of the Lazy Teenager
  • 8.1 Cultural Study and Practice
• 考试题