何其莘、童明編著的《文化透視英語教程(3普通
高等教育十一五國家級規劃教材)》為中美專家合作
編寫，是一套縝密切入英美文化各個層面，培養英語
運用能力的有機教程。此套教材的教學基本理念是：
把學術焦點放在中西文化的表裡差異中，以培養準確
、純正的英語，從而生動無礙地掌握語言技能。與國
內現有同類教材相比，本套教材有以下特點：全部文
章采用英文原文，力圖保持原汁原味；切入英語文化
的各個層面、各個情景，以期在更大的語境中提高學
生的語言理解和運用能力；進入英語文化，將焦點放
在中外文化的差異上，並配有互動式練習。本套教材
不僅適用於高校英語專業學生，也適用於入學時英語
水平較高的非英語專業英語，以及有一定英語基礎而
準備出國深造的英語學習者。

Unit 1 Being Ethnic in the U.S.
Close Reading None of This Is Fair
F.urther Reading I. Growing Up Asian in America
II. Cultural Baggage
Listening How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Writing Why Blacks Need Affirmative Action
Unit 2 Language and Society
Close Reading If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Further Reading I. Softening the Stories for Children
II. To the Victor Belongs the Language
Listening English Is a Crazy Language
VVriting Fairy Tales and Modern Stories
Unit 3 Gun Control in Debate
Close Reading Just Take Away Their Guns
Further Reading I. Why Handguns Must Be Outlawed
II. The Case for Firearms
Listening More Guns, Less Crime?
writing Guns in the Courtroom
Unit 4 Television and Violence
Close Reading TV Violence. Does It Cause Real-life Mayhem?
Further Reading I. When Television Is a School for Criminals
lit The Effects of Television on Family Life
Listening Dating
Writing Crack and the Box
Unit 5 Gender and Sexuality
Close Reading Between the Sexes, a Great Divide
Further Reading I. Why Are Women This Miserable?
I1o I'd Rather Be Black than Female
Listening Thank Heaven for Little Boys
Writing Sex in the Movies
Unit 6 Imaging Beauty
Close Reading Clothing as a Sign System (Part I)
Further Reading I. Clothing as a Sign System (Part II)
II. The Ugly Truth About Beauty
Listening Body Imperfect
Writing Venus Envy
Unit 7 Cyber-space- The New Frontier
Close Reading The Tales They Tell in Cyber-space
Further Reading I. Men, Women, and Computers
I1. Don't Look Back
Listening California Report Cautious on "E-voting"
Writing Rising Internet Use Quietly Transforms the Way Japanese Live
Unit 8 Sex Education
Close Reading Condoms. The New Diploma
Further Reading I. The War on Embarrassment
I1. A Pyrrhic Victory
Listening The Secret Struggle Toward Womanhood
Writing Third Base. Identity
Unit 9 The Entertainment Business
Close Reading Hollywood Poison Factory
Further Reading I. Tough Talk on Entertainment
II. Today's Pop Stars Hurt by Too Much Publicity?
Listening Rock and Roll Music and Political and Social Changes
Writing Mickey Mouse
Unit 10 The Divorce Debate
Close Reading The Perfect Family
Further Reading I. Splitting Up
II. Why Marriages Fail
Listening The Good Marriage
Writing The Divorce Debate in the New York Times
Unit 11 Leisure and Pastime
Close Reading Dostoyevsky and a Decaf
Further Reading I. A Diarist on Diarists
II. Living with My VCR
Listening What to Listen for in Music
Writing Night Life on the Reef; Looking at Nighttime Fish Habits
Unit 12 How Free Should Media Be
Close Reading Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet
Further Reading I. Hate Radio
II. TV, Freedom, and the Loss of Community
Listening The End of Admiration- The Media and the Loss of Heroes
Writing Soaps, Cynicism, and Mind Control
Unit 13 Racial Discrimination and Its Manifestations
Close Reading The Recoloring of Campus Life
Further Reading I. Blacks Cannot Escape Segregation
I1. Watching the Miss America Pageant
Listening The Lesson
Writing Colorblind
Unit 14 Man in Nature
Close Reading Learning to See
Further Reading I. Listening to the Air
I1. The Last of the Wild Salmon
Listening The Survival of the City in Our Time
Writing The Death of a Moth
Unit 15 Family Values
Close Reading Myths of Family Past
Further Reading I. The Coming White Underclass
II. Family Album
Listening The Family Legacy
Writing Sex in a Marriage
Unit 16 Trashing the Planet
Close Reading The Greenhouse Blues
Further Reading I. Trashing the Planet?
II. DDT, Science, and Public Policy
Listening Out, Damn Naturalists
Writing A Review of Trashing the Planet (T)