泛读（第一册）

　　《超越概念：泛读（第1册）》采用了中美教授、学者合作编写的形式。由中外学者合编教材国内已有先例，但是本套教材无论从编撰者的数量到编写人员的素质，从双方合作的广度到相互交流的深度，从教材种类所涵盖的范围到其内容的真实性，都是前所未有的。编写初始由中方编者提出编写思路、选材要求，之后将要求交付美方编者，由美方编者在美国选材。在选材过程中，双方经过多次讨论，最后确定每一篇课文的内容与长度。然后由中方编者根据所选内容编写配套的练习，最后由美方审读并润色。这种分工方式最充分地利用了双方的优势：中方编者不但有在国外学习、工作、获取学位的经历，而且长期在国内高校从事英语教学，对国内学生的需求以及国内现有教材的情况了如指掌，可以准确地把握教材的内容和难易程度。而美方编者的优势在于对西方，特别是美国的英语教学和文化的认知与了解。他们出国前均为国内高校英语教师，并有在美国大学英语系不低于20年的教学经验。他们不但对国外的英语教学了如指掌，更重要的是对英语语言和文化有一种直觉的感知，而这种感知是从任何教科书中学不到的。

　　何其莘，博士，北京外国语大学教授，博士生导师。1994年-2005年任北外副校长，现为中国人民大学外国语学院院长、清华大学双聘教授、广东外语外贸大学等29所院校的客座教授、教育部高校英语专业教学指导委员会主任、全国翻译硕士专业学位教育指导委员会副主任、全国英国文学学会会长、全国有突出贡献的中青年专家。主要成果包括：Listento This，《新概念英语》，《文化透视英语教程》，《英国文艺复兴时期文学史》，《英国戏剧史》，《英国中古时期文学史》，《中国学者眼中的英国文学》等。杨孝明博士，教授。毕业于西安外国语大学，后获英国诺丁汉大学英语硕士学位、美国鲍陵格林州立大学英语博士学位。在俄亥俄州鲍陵格林大学和新泽西州海洋郡学院任教二十余年，教授英文写作、英美文学和语言学等课程，现为新泽西州海洋郡学院英语系终身教授。主要成果包括：The Rhetoric Propaganda、Error of Creativity A Hundved Flowers Blossoming，《中国式英语错误分析》，《文学批评理论的运用》等。

UNIT ONE
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Will Spelling Count?
　Text B: How to Read Better and Faster
　Reading Skills: Contextual Clues to Word Meaning
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT TWO
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: The Book That Changed My Lives: An Introduction
　Text B: For the Love of Books
　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Word Formation (I)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT THREE
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Giving Disorganized Boys the Tools for Success
　Text B: The Traditional Approach and Why It Doesn't Work
　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Word Formation (II)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT FOUR
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Bringing the Best out of People
　Text B: Putting Feelings into Words
　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Synonyms and Antonyms (I)
　Readings and Self-testing
　FIVE
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Independence Day
　Text B: Independence Day (continued)
　Reading Skills: Guessing Word Meaning from Synonyms and Antonyms (II)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT SIX
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
　Text B: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self (continued)
　Reading Skills: Recognizing Examples and Illustration
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT SEVEN
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: The Threat of Secondhand Smoke Justifies Smoking Restrictions
　Text B: Smoking Should Be Treated as Nicotine Addiction
　Reading Skills: Prediction
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT EIGHT
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Channelled Whelk
　Text B: Never Say Never
　Reading Skills: Recognizing Restatement
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT NINE
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: An Honest Doubter
　Text B: My Friend Lodovico
　Reading Skills: Skimming
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT TEN
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Own This Child
　Text B: Barbie to Baby Einstein: Get Over It
　Reading Skills: Scanning
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT ELEVEN
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Australia: An Underappreciated Nation
　Text B: Towards One Destiny
　Reading Skills: Summarizing (I)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT TWELVE
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: On Seeing England for the First Time
　Text B: Welcome to St Paul's
　Reading Skills: Summarizing (II)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT THIRTEEN
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: A Granddaughter's Fear
　Text B: On the Verge of Adulthood: Older Teens and the Library
　Reading Skills: Recognizing Sequence (I)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT FOURTEEN
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Joyas Voladoras
　Text B: Leader of the Pack: The Fascinating Lives of Wolves
　Reading Skills: Recognizing Sequence (II)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT FIFTEEN
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: 86,400 Hours
　Text B: Men and Women Talking on the Job
　Reading Skills: Signal Words (I)
　Readings and Self-testing
UNIT SIXTEEN
　Thinking Starters
　Text A: Gravity
　Text B: What If It Happens in Your Family?
　Reading Skills: Signal Words (II)
　Readings and Self-testing