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1 Introduction about the Course
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1.1 Teaching Guidelines for Undergraduate English Majors
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1.2 Chinese English Proficiency Level Scale
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1.3 本课程成绩评定方式
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1.4 Critical Thinking and other Higher-Order Thinking Skills
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1.5 Classical articles about reading
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1.5.1 Of studies(Francis Bacon)
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1.5.2 Nicolas Shump's experience on reading
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1.5.3 three articles in Chinese
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1.6 Reading skill:skimming and scanning
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1.7 Steve Jobs at Stanford University
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2 To Youth
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3 Language Diversity
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4 Beauty, Love and Sacrifice
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4.1 pre-reading
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4.1.1 the Happy Prince
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4.1.2 aesthetic movement
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4.2 in-reading
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4.2.1 connote VS denote
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4.2.2 statue, status, statute, stature
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4.2.3 Further reading on Aestheticism art movement
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4.3 after-reading
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4.3.1 Irony in the Gift of Magi
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4.3.2 Life reads life a poem by Lin yutang
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4.3.3 seven stages by Shakespear
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4.3.4 Redefine beauty-TED: how to define yourself
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5 To lie or not to lie
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6 The Use of Humanities
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7 Conflicts in Public and Private Space
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8 Education
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8.1 The Ron Clark Story(热血教师)
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8.2 The Washiongton Post reading
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8.3 Hogwarts-inspired middle school in the heart of Atlanta
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8.4 视频:that is why I choose Yale
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8.5 stand-up comedy
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9 Environmental Protection
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9.1 death watch for the Amazon
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9.2 the earth song
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9.3 video clip of the Day after Tomorrow
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9.4 official trailor of Carbon bomb
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9.5 the debate over climate
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9.6 Congo’s enormous rainforest is getting smaller
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9.7 Reading and translation
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10 Number Games in China
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10.1 TED Video: the ugliest woman
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10.2 Students borrowing money for cosmetic surgery
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10.3 Cosmetic surgery on the rise in China
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11 Britain Today
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11.1 Brexit after May
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11.2 video
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11.3 UK
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12 The changing American Culture
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12.1 Reading: I have a dream
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12.2 Newyork Times:Is American dream real?
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12.3 TED living the American Dream
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13 Communication and Interpersonal Skills
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13.1 Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
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13.2 Quotes
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13.3 An essay on what is communication
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13.4 how to be a good communicator