　　《英美散文选读（1～2）辅导用书（第二版）》是对外经济贸易大学出版社的“全国高等院校商务英语专业本科系列规划教材·人文素养子系列”中的一套高级英语教材，其目标读者是商务英语专业本科三年级生和其他同等水平的英语爱好者。这套教材的编写目的是，一方面，在学生原有一、二年级的基础上提高其英语水平，在另一方面，加强学生的人文素养，使其了解西方文化中最具精髓的思想。
　　为了达到这一目的，编者对大学英语专业低年级和高年级学习的侧重点做过一些调查，进行过一番思考。如果说低年级生学习英语的重点是语音语调、基础词汇和语法结构、简单的日常写作等方面的话，那么到了高年级，学习的重点就必须转移到增大词汇量、扩大阅读范围、阅读英美等国的哲学、社科和人文领域里有代表性的一些作家的作品。在阅读的基础之上，逐渐培养其批判性思辨能力，逻辑推理能力和基础修辞能力。与此同时，在阅读的过程中了解文中的诸种典故的出处，学习作者选题立意、收集素材、谋篇布局、行文论证的方法。在加强人文素养方面，最好的办法莫过于广泛阅读“世界上的最佳思想与言论”(The best that has been thought and said in the world)【阿诺德语】了。但是，中外的名著和典籍如汗牛充栋，而当下人们可用来阅读的时间又十分有限，如何解决这一矛盾呢？只有编者来替人读书，从繁多的文献中提取最有代表性的文章选入本套教材，从而为读者节省时间。

作者简介

　　蒋显璟，对外经济贸易大学英语学院教授，2001—2007年担任语言文学系主任，毕业于北京大学，师从名师赵萝蕤教授专攻英国浪漫主义文学，获博士学位。
　　主要负责英语文专业本科生的“散文分析”深的建设与教材编写工作，担任英语专业研究生的“英国文学”、“英语诗歌”和“浪漫主义”等课程的教学工作主要的研究成果有发表在国内核心期刊上关于英国文学和英美文学批评的论文和几部译著，其中包括论文《科学与神话：弗莱理论中的不谐和》、《重读（无名的裘德）——希腊精神与希伯来精神的冲突》；译著《双重火焰》、《简朴生活读本》、《天才十种》和《金钱关系》等此外，在2004—2006年间，蒋盈璟教授在《英语学习》杂志上的《经典文选》栏目中还发表了一系列精选的英美经典散文译文。

第1册
Unit One Education and Discipline
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Two The Marks of an Educated Man
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key—to exercises
Unit Three In Defense of Elitism
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Four Grant and Lee： A Study in Contrasts
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Five Some American Types
Part 1 Notesto vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key toexercises
Unit Six Boredom： The Most Prevalent American Disease
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Seven Simplicity
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Eight The Future of Reading
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Nine Utopian Techniques
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Ten My Wood
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key—to exercises
Unit Eleven Selected Snobberies
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Twelve What to Listen for in Music
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Thirteen The Epoch of the Secular City
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Fourteen How Much Is "Enough"？
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Fifteen Beauty
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Sixteen On Genius and Originality
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises

第2册
Unit One Knowledge and Wisdom
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Two Habit
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary，and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Three The Scientist as Rebel
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Four Predictable Crises of Adulthood
Part 1 Notes，to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Five The Evolution of Goodand Bad
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Six Faces of the Enemy
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Seven Gibbon
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Eight Philistines and Philistinism
Part 1 Notes t'o vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Nine The American Scholar
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Ten A Professional Malaise
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Eleven Hebraism and Hellenism
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises
Unit Twelve The Gift of Tongues
Part 1 Notes to vocabulary and texts
Part 2 Key to exercises

试题与答案
Book 1
Essay Reading （I） Quiz One
Essay Reading （I） Quiz Two
Essay Reading （I） Quiz Three
Essay Reading （I） Quiz Four
Essay Reading （I） Quiz Five
Essay Reading （I） Final Paper A （One）
Essay Reading （I） Final Paper A （Two）
Essay Reading （I） Final Paper A （Three）
Essay Reading （I） Final Paper A （Four）
Essay Reading （I） Final Paper B （One）
Essay Reading （I） Final Paper B （Two）
Book 2
Essay Reading （II） Quiz One （1）
Essay Reading （II） Quiz One （2）
Essay Reading （II） Quiz Two （1）
Essay Reading （II） Quiz Two （2）
Essay Reading （II） Quiz Two （3）
Essay Reading （II） Quiz Three
Essay Reading （II） Final Paper A （One）
Essay Reading （II） Final Paper A （Two）
Essay Reading （II） Final Paper A （Three）

精彩书摘

　　7.Henry David Thoreau.
　　(born July 12, 1817, Concord, Mass., US； died May 6, 1862, Concord) US thinker, essayist, and naturalist.Thoreau graduated from Harvard University and taught school for several years before leaving his job to become a poet of nature.Back in Concord, he came under the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and began to publish pieces in the Transcendentalist magazine The Dial.In the years 1845-47, to demonstrate how satisfying a simple life could be, he lived in a hut beside Concord's Walden Pond； essays recording his daily life were assembled for his masterwork, Walden (1854).His A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) was the only other book he published in his lifetime.He reflected on a night he spent in jail protesting the Mexican-American War in the essay "Civil Disobedience" (1849), which would later influence such figures as Mohandas K.Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.In later years his interest in Transcendentalism waned, and he became a dedicated abolitionist.His many nature writings and records of his wanderings in Canada, Maine, and Cape Cod display the mind of a keen naturalist.After his death his collected writings were published in 20 volumes, and furt.her writings have continued to appear in print.
　　8.Plotinus.
　　The Greek philosopher Plotinus (205-270) was the founder of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy, which became the most formidable rival of Christianity in the declining years of the ancient world.
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