Lesson One Dragon Ships Before Columbus? 1
Lesson Two The Renaissance in Italy(Ⅰ) 15
Lesson Three The Renaissance in Italy(Ⅱ) 28
Lesson Four Warriors From a Watery Grave 42
Lesson Five Enlightenment 56
Lesson Six Stendhal and Le Rouge et le Noir 72
Lesson Seven Napoleon I,Emperor,1804—1814 88
Lesson Eight The Englishman's Mission 106
Lesson Nine The Yalta Conference 118
Lesson Ten A Common Language—British and American English The Areas of Difference 132
Supplementary Readings 146
Ⅰ The Era of Discovery 146
Ⅱ The Renaissance in Europe 155
Ⅲ The Significance of the Renaissance 163
Ⅳ The Long Sleep of Herculaneum 170
Ⅴ The Philosophes 177
Ⅵ To the Happpy Few 183
Ⅶ Austerlitz 193
Ⅷ George Bernard Shaw 201
Ⅸ The Surrender at Munich 211
Ⅹ A Common Language—British and American English Differences in Vocabulary 219
Appendix 228
Vocabulary 228
Phrases and Expressons 245