《21世紀(jì)英語專業(yè)系列教材：英語時文泛讀（第2冊）》特點(diǎn)：
選材語言地道，內(nèi)容新穎，題材廣泛，貼近生活，時代氣息濃郁，可讀性強(qiáng)；
根據(jù)不同主題設(shè)置不同單元，知識內(nèi)容自成體系；
練習(xí)設(shè)計(jì)合理、實(shí)用，緊扣課文內(nèi)容，針對性強(qiáng)，形式靈活；
難易程度恰當(dāng)，有助于擴(kuò)大國際視野，以適應(yīng)日益增長的外交與對外文化交流的需要。
這套系列教材要體現(xiàn)新世紀(jì)英語教學(xué)的自主化、協(xié)作化、模塊化和超文本化，結(jié)合外語教材的具體情況。既要解決語言、教學(xué)內(nèi)容、教學(xué)方法和教育技術(shù)的時代化，也要堅(jiān)持弘揚(yáng)以愛國主義為核心的民族精神。因此，今天北京大學(xué)出版社在大力提倡專業(yè)英語教學(xué)改革的基礎(chǔ)上。
北京大學(xué)出版社自2005年以來已出版《語言與應(yīng)用語言學(xué)知識系列讀本》多種，為了配合第十一個五年計(jì)劃，現(xiàn)又策劃陸續(xù)出版《21世紀(jì)英語專業(yè)系列教材》。這個重大舉措勢必受到英語專業(yè)廣大教師和學(xué)生的歡迎。
作為英語教師，最讓人揪心的莫過于聽人說英語不是一個專業(yè)，只是一個工具。說這些話的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)和教師的用心是好的，為英語專業(yè)的畢業(yè)生將來找工作著想，因此要為英語專業(yè)的學(xué)生多多開設(shè)諸如新聞、法律、國際商務(wù)、經(jīng)濟(jì)、旅游等其他專業(yè)的課程，但事與愿違，英語專業(yè)的教師們很快發(fā)現(xiàn)，學(xué)生投入英語學(xué)習(xí)的時間少了，掌握英語專業(yè)課程知識甚微，即使對四個技能的掌握也并不比大學(xué)英語學(xué)生高明多少，而那個所謂的第二專業(yè)在有關(guān)專家的眼中只是學(xué)到些皮毛而已。
英語專業(yè)的路在何方？有沒有其他路可走？這是需要我們英語專業(yè)教師思索的問題，中央領(lǐng)導(dǎo)關(guān)于創(chuàng)新是一個民族的靈魂和要培養(yǎng)創(chuàng)新人才等的指示精神，讓我們在層層迷霧中找到了航向：、顯然，培養(yǎng)學(xué)生具有自主學(xué)習(xí)能力和能進(jìn)行創(chuàng)造性思維是我們更為重要的戰(zhàn)略目標(biāo)，使英語專業(yè)的人才更能適應(yīng)21世紀(jì)的需要，迎接2l世紀(jì)的挑戰(zhàn)。
如今，北京大學(xué)出版社外語部的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)和編輯同志們，也從教材出版的視角探索英語專業(yè)的教材問題，從而為貫徹英語專業(yè)教學(xué)大綱做些有益的工作，為教師們開設(shè)大綱中所規(guī)定的必修、選修課程提供各種教材。《21世紀(jì)英語專業(yè)系列教材》是普通高等教育“十一五”國家級規(guī)劃教材和國家“十一五”重點(diǎn)出版規(guī)劃項(xiàng)目《面向新世紀(jì)的立體化網(wǎng)絡(luò)化英語學(xué)科建設(shè)叢書》的重要組成部分，這套系列教材要體現(xiàn)新世紀(jì)英語教學(xué)的自主化、協(xié)作化、模塊化和超文本化，結(jié)合外語教材的具體情況。既要解決語言、教學(xué)內(nèi)容、教學(xué)方法和教育技術(shù)的時代化，也要堅(jiān)持弘揚(yáng)以愛國主義為核心的民族精神。因此，今天北京大學(xué)出版社在大力提倡專業(yè)英語教學(xué)改革的基礎(chǔ)上，編輯出版各種英語專業(yè)技能、英語專業(yè)知識和相關(guān)專業(yè)知識課程的教材，以培養(yǎng)具有創(chuàng)新性思維的和具有實(shí)際工作能力的學(xué)生，充分體現(xiàn)了時代精神。
北京大學(xué)出版社的遠(yuǎn)見卓識，也反映了英語專業(yè)廣大師生盼望已久的心愿，由北京大學(xué)等全國幾十所院校具體組織力量，積極編寫相關(guān)教材。
UNTI IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION
Text A A Year Without "Made in China"
Text B Stay Globally Competitive： Be Like Google
Text C A Race We Can All Win
UNIT TWO CONTROVERSIES IN 21ST-CENTURY AMERICA
Text A Why Not Teach Altematives to Evolution?
Text B Dont Believe the Hype. Were Still No.1.
Text C Supreme Court Rejects School Racial Diversity Plans ！
UNIT THREE COLLEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY
Text A What Exactly Does GWs President Do? ！
Text B Campuses Slow to Deal with Growth in Gambling ！
Text C Gates Urges Graduates to Tackle Global Inequity
UNIT FOUR "NEW" GENERATIONS
Text A What Gen Y Really Wants
Text B What Will You Call Me When Im 64?
Text C Why We Must Listen to Our Angry Teenagers
UNIT FIVE PARADOXES IN REALITY
Text A The Cleanest Place on Earth——and the Dirtiest
Text B Somewhere Deep Down, We Still Care. Dont We?
Text C Could Friendships Be Ruining Your Life?
UNIT SIX PEOPLES PLACE IN SOCIETY
Text A Setting Happiness as a National Goal 71
Text B When Armed Citizens Patrol the Streets 75
Text C Designing Cities for People, Rather than Cars...
UNIT SEVEN HUMAN IMPACT ON NATURE
Text A After We Are Gone
Text B A New Step Toward Synthetic Life
Text C Can We Save the World by 2015?
UNIT EIGHT CHINAS "GROWING PAINS"
Text A China Food Scare： A Dash of Racism
Text B A Taste of Racism in the Chinese Food Scare
Text C Tired of Laughter, Beijing Gets Rid of Bad Translations
GLOSSARY
11 Somebody has to keep a vigilant eye on a reality that huge，especially when it is a reality that decides this UniversityS present and future.
12 Never miss an opportunity to project the Universitys image，so laden with academic virtue，in ways that confirm that image essential accuracy. Somebody has to coordinate the look and feel of an academic institution that mails out literally millions of pieces of paper each year And somebody has to serve as the ultimate spokesperson for GW when the media Call-which they increasingly do.
13 Feel comfortable in conversation with everyone from the President of the United States to foreign heads of state.When a school is engaged in a“boom”as vigorous as the one that now typifies GW national and international involvements swiftly multiply In recent years，I have found myself in intense personal conversation with the chief officials of New Zealand， Morocco，Israel，Costa Rica，Egypt and other nations All were people who thought of GW as an intellectual and pedagogical Power|loU se .So I had to look and sound like a university president whose daily climb into the cabin of his powerhouse was something he took for granted！
14 Keep in touch，at a plausible，personal level with all of the constituencies represented by the University .The young woman of my first paragraph，who needed temporary housing， was someone I ran into on a food linc at our J Street cafeteria Across the desk from me I see faculty members on countless occasion .Informal personal conversations number hundreds in an average year Staff I“bump into”wherever I go on this campus either personally or telehonically.
15 So I’m actually a“sad musician”of sorts racing around one of the biggest concerts on our planet，urging the trumpets to play a little louder or the second violinist to stop sneering at the first the result is a symphony notable for its harmonics rather than for grunts，groans，screams of pain，and missed opportunities GW is the kind of a place that feels proudest when it delivers exactly the services it markets to the public——above all，the capacity to earn one’S living，after graduation，in ways that fill the soul while they also fill the wallet and the stomach.
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