《英语综合教程》根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》编写，旨在培养学生具有扎实的语言基本功、宽广的知识面、一定的相关专业知识、较强的综合能力和较高的人文素质。本套教材是基础英语课程教材，共四册，可供高等学校英语专业一、二年级学生使用。本册为第四册，适用于二年级第二学期。
《英语综合教程第4册（学生用书.修订版）》共14个单元，每单元包括texta与textb两篇课文。内容涉及教育、语言、政治、文学等领域。主题包括语言学习、跨文化交际、民族性格、女性意识、社会变迁、人类天性等。体裁包括小说、散文、政论文、传记、演说辞、寓言、神话、科幻故事等。课文的选材力求体现经典性与时代性相结合、知识性与趣味性相结合的原则，同时关注学生的需要、兴趣与语言难易程度。28篇课文均出自名家之手，稍加改编而成。其中既有思想内涵深刻的经典文章，也有贴近现代生活的轻松读物，体现了比较丰富的人文内涵和审美取向。
unit 1 the power of rhetoric
text a we force the spring
text b ask not what your country can do for you
unit 2 learning and teaching
text a miss sullivan
text b on being a scientific booby
unit 3 cross-cultural communication
text a culture shock
text b a canadian firm's negotiation in china
unit 4 impact of change
text a the open road
text b on going home
unit 5 humor and irony
text a the night the ghost got in
text b the verger
unit 6 the choice of words
text a politics and the english language
text b the choice of words
unit 7 nature and civilization
text a who killed king kong?
text b yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit
unit 8 women's consciousness
text a a room of one's own
text b feminist consciousness after the women's movement
unit 9 national character
text a paradox and dream
text b the european's america （23 october 1952）
unit 10 the short story
text a miss brill
text b the gift of the magi
unit 11 education
text a the school and social progress
text b education by poetry
unit 12 treasury of fantasy
text a tom edison's shaggy dog
text b harry potter and the philosopher's stone
unit 13 human folly
text a the folly of discontent with one's own lot
text b the picture of dorian gray
unit 14 human quest
text a yali's question
text b the wanderer from thus spoke zarathustra
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