Part One Cross-Cultural Communication
Unit 1
Text A Building Bridges
Text B People and Culture
Reading Activity (1)
Unit 2
Text A An American's view on Culture Shock
Text B Excerpted Remarks by American President Nixon at Universit of International Business and Economics
Unit 3
Text A Respecting Our Differences and WorkingTogether
Text B Guidelines for Multicultural Collaboration
Reading Activity (2)
Unit 4
Text A Cross-culture Communication Challenges
Text B Three Fundamental Patterns of Cultural Differences
Unit 5
Text A Basic Body Linguistics
Text B Reading Reactions in Different Cultures
Reading Activity (3)
Part Two English and American Literature
Unit 6
Text A English Literature
Text B William Shakespeare
Reading Activity (4)
Unit 7
Text A American Literature
Text B Ernest Hemingway
Unit 8
Text A The Ironic Principle
Text B Work, Labor, and Play
Reading Activity (5)
Unit 9
Text A Stream of Consciousness
Text B James Joyce
Unit 10
Text A Nobel Prize in Literature
Text B John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Reading Activity (6)
Part Three The World Multi-polarization
Unit 11
Text A Political Multi-polarization--A Maj or Trend in Today's World
Text B China, Russia Advocate Multi-polarized International Order
Writing Skills (1)
Unit 12
Text A Trouble Spots
Text B Big Power Politics Gets Personal
Unit 13
Text A The Authoritative Status of the UN Is Unshakable
Text B Reemergence of Group Confrontation Unlikely
Writing Skills (2)
Unit 14
Text A Relatively Relaxed Big-Power Relation
Text B Sino-EU Relations Stepping Into Maturity
Unit 15
TextA “Levers”of International Relations
Text B Globalization Vs Regional Integration
Writing Skills(3)
AppendixⅠThe Chinese Translations of the Texts(课文参考译文)
AppendixⅡKey to Exercises(练习答案)
AppendixⅢGlossary(生词总表)