Unit 1 2
Passage 1 Understanding Classics and Recitation 2
Passage 2 The Optimist’s Creed—Christian D.Larson 9
Unit 2 17
Passage 1 You are What You Do—Mayling Soong 17
Passage 2 The Diary of a Young Girl—Anne Frank 23
Unit 3 31
Passage 1 Companionship of Books—Samuel Smiles 31
Passage 2 Reading—Henry David Thoreau 38
Unit 4 45
Passage 1 I Have a Dream （Part Ⅰ） —Martin Luther King， Jr 45
Passage 2 The Period Charles Dickens 68
Unit 5 74
Passage 1 I Have a Dream （Part Ⅱ） —Martin Luther King， Jr 74
Passage 2 Inaugural Address—John Fitzgerald Kennedy 90
Unit 6 94
Passage 1 Choice of Companions—William Makepeace Thayer 94
Passage 2 The Road Not Taken—Robert Frost 99
Unit 7 107
Passage 1 The Declaration of Independence—Thomas Jefferson 107
Passage 2 Fooling the People—Alexander K.McClure 136
Unit 8 142
Passage 1 The Quality of Mercy—William Shakespeare 142
Passage 2 Sonnet 18—William Shakespeare 148
Unit 9 155
Passage 1 Gettysburg Address—Abraham Lincoln 155
Passage 2 Liberty—Edmund Burke 162
Unit 10 168
Passage 1 If—Joseph Rudyard Kipling 168
Passage 2 Courage—Howard Cosell 175
Unit 11 181
Passage 1 These Things Shall Never Die—Charles Dickens 181
Passage 2 She Walks in Beauty—George Gordon， Lord Byron 185
Unit 12 193
Passage 1 True Nobility—Ernest Hemingway 193
Passage 2 Man is Here for the Sake of Other Men—Albert Einstein 200
Unit 13 208
Passage 1 The Problem of Mankind—Martin Luther King， Jr 208
Passage 2 On Knowledge—W.F.Markwick and W.A.Smith 214
Unit 14 219
Passage 1 1 Corinthians 13—Bible （New International Version） 219
Passage 2 Hate—Martin Luther King， Jr 225
Unit 15 230
Passage 1 In One Word Be a Saint—Baltasar Gracian 230
Passage 2 Cultivating Our Hearts 235
Unit 16 242
Passage 1 Of Studies—Francis Bacon 242
Passage 2 The Study of Words—Wilfred Funk ＆ Norman Lewis 256
附录：辜鸿铭的西文学习法 260
主要参考文献 263