Part One Cross-Cultural Communication Unit 1 Text A Building Bridges Text B People and Culture Reading Activity (1) Unit 2 Text A An American's view on Culture Shock Text B Excerpted Remarks by American President Nixon at Universit of International Business and Economics Unit 3 Text A Respecting Our Differences and WorkingTogether Text B Guidelines for Multicultural Collaboration Reading Activity (2) Unit 4 Text A Cross-culture Communication Challenges Text B Three Fundamental Patterns of Cultural Differences Unit 5 Text A Basic Body Linguistics Text B Reading Reactions in Different Cultures Reading Activity (3) Part Two English and American Literature Unit 6 Text A English Literature Text B William Shakespeare Reading Activity (4) Unit 7 Text A American Literature Text B Ernest Hemingway Unit 8 Text A The Ironic Principle Text B Work, Labor, and Play Reading Activity (5) Unit 9 Text A Stream of Consciousness Text B James Joyce Unit 10 Text A Nobel Prize in Literature Text B John Steinbeck's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Reading Activity (6) Part Three The World Multi-polarization Unit 11 Text A Political Multi-polarization--A Maj or Trend in Today's World Text B China, Russia Advocate Multi-polarized International Order Writing Skills (1) Unit 12 Text A Trouble Spots Text B Big Power Politics Gets Personal Unit 13 Text A The Authoritative Status of the UN Is Unshakable Text B Reemergence of Group Confrontation Unlikely Writing Skills (2) Unit 14 Text A Relatively Relaxed Big-Power Relation Text B Sino-EU Relations Stepping Into Maturity Unit 15 TextA “Levers”of International Relations Text B Globalization Vs Regional Integration Writing Skills(3) AppendixⅠThe Chinese Translations of the Texts(課文參考譯文) AppendixⅡKey to Exercises(練習(xí)答案) AppendixⅢGlossary(生詞總表)