本教程是為高等院校英語專業學生編寫的閱讀教程。閱讀材料來源廣泛，涉及日常生活的常見話題，在培養學生閱讀能力的同時，也關注提高學生的人文素養和文化意識，充分體現英語專業教學改革強調的全人教育理念。本教程設計四冊閱讀教程，本書為第三冊。

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Unit One Emotion
Unit Two Psychology
Unit Three LifeScience（Ⅰ）
Unit Four Life Science（Ⅱ）
Unit Five History （Ⅰ）
Unit Six History （Ⅱ）
Unit Seven Communication （Ⅰ）
Unit Eight Communication （Ⅱ）
Unit Nine Community （Ⅰ）
Unit Ten Community （Ⅱ）
Unit Eleven Justice （Ⅰ）
Unit Twelve Justice （Ⅱ）
Key to the Exercises

Unit One Emotion
Getting to Know: Fiction and Non-fiction
Strategy Guidance: Fiction and Non-fiction
What Is Fictionand Non-fiction:
Fiction is the form of any work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not real, but rather, imaginary and theoretical—that is, invented by the author.
Fiction generally refers to novels and short stories, and it may also refer to the theatre, including opera and ballet, film, television, poetry and song.
Non-fiction contrasts with fiction. It deals exclusively with factual (or at least assumed factual) events, descriptions, observations, and so on.
Non-fiction includes art, biography, culture, history, journalism, memoir and so on.
Features of Fiction:
Fiction can be realistic which, although untrue, could actually happen. Some events, people, and places may even be real. Some imagined events could possibly happen in the future.
Fiction can also be non-realistic. That is to say, the events in the story could not happen in real life, such as those involving an alternate form of history of mankind other than that recorded, or needing impossible technology.
Elements of Fiction:
Even among writing instructors and best-selling authors, there is little consensus regarding the number and composition of the fundamental elements of fiction.
Generally, there are several elements of fiction: plot, exposition, foreshadowing, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, conflict, character and so on.
Practice
Decide whether the following statements are true(T) or false(F).
[ ] 1. Fictions are not true, and they are created by authors.
[ ] 2. Journalism and TV series are both fictions.
[ ] 3. Stories about realistic events, i.e. things which could happen in our daily life are not fictions.
[ ] 4. Non-fictions are the opposite of fictions, referring to the factual things.
[ ] 5. It is not decided whether there are any elements of fictions.