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Unit 1Chinese Culture

Text AEating and Drinking
Lin Yutang

Text BThe Spirit of the Chinese People
Gu Hongming

Text CThe Chinese Character
Bertrand Russell

Unit 2Foreign Impressions

Text AHere Is New York
Elwyn Brooks White

Text BFlowery Tuscany
David Herbert Lawrence

Text CWhat I Saw in America
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Unit 3Politics

Text AThe Spirit of Laws
Charles de Montesquieu

Text BOf the Beginning of Political Societies
John Locke

Text CThe Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson, et al.

Unit 4Education

Text AA Liberal Education
Thomas Henry Huxley

Text BImportance of Education
Plato

Text CEducation and Discipline
Bertrand Russell

Unit 5Women

Text AProfessions for Women
Virginia Woolf

Text BBeauty
Susan Sontag

Text CThe Tragedy of Woman��s Emancipation

Emma Goldman

Unit 6Methodology

Text AThe Demarcation Between Science and Pseudo��Science

Karl R. Popper

Text BDiscourse on Method
René Descartes

Text CThe Myths of Objectivism and Subjectivism

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

Unit 7Speeches

Text AI Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Text BRichard M. Nixon��s Resignation Address

Richard M. Nixon

Text CWe Shall Fight on the Beaches

Winston Churchill

Unit 8Literature

Text AA Rose for Emily
William Faulkner

Text BSolitude
Henry David Thoreau

Text CThe Waste Land
T. S. Eliot