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我们所处的时代是一个多元共生的时代。国际政治的多极化走向、经济的全球化趋势、社会的信息化局面以及文化的多元化态势正快速改变着我们的生活。科学技术的高速发展以及新兴学科的不断涌现加剧了世界各国文化的交流、碰撞和合作。如何培养适应新时代发展和需要的人才，这是我们这一代教育工作者面临的新的课题和挑战。
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Unit One International Relations and Politics
第一单元 国际关系与政治
1.The Age of Nonpolarity
2.America’S Longest War：September llth Remembrance
3.Losing Sight of Reality
4.ne Return of Soft Power?
5.Vlad and MAD I Russia and Arms Control
Unit Two International Economics and Business
第二单元 国际经济与贸易
1.Analysis：The Vision Thin9
2.Read the Big Four to Know Capital’S Fate
3.We Forgot Everything Keynes Taught Us
4.Charlemagne I Euro Blues
5.Thoroughly Modem Marx
Unit Three Science and Technology
第三单元 科学与技术
1.Computers VS.Brains
2.Just Googling It Is Striking Fear into Companies
3.Electronic—book Readers
4.The RNA RevolUtion
5.New Web Sites Seeking Profit in Wiki Model
Unit Four Culture and Society
第四单元 文化与社会
1.The Way We Read Now as Our World ToRers
2.Feeling at Home
3.Rise of the New Angl0—world Order
4.Reading on the Web Is Not Really Readin9
Unit Five Education
第五单元 教育
1.Education Reform
2.On Campus。Vampires Are Besting the Beats
3.We Treat Our Pupils like Aldous Huxley’S Gammas
4.Will the Humanities Save Us?
Unit Six Environment
第六单元 环境
1.The Environmental Movemem I Endangered Specie
2.Selling the Green Economy
3.Adapt or Die
4.The Litany and the Heretic
Unit Seven Entertainment and Leisure
第七单元 娱乐休闲
1.Saying Yes to Mess
2.Too Busy to Notice You’re Too Busy
3.What’S So Funny?Well.Maybe Nothing
4.Whv Women Don’t Relax?
Unit Eight Health Car
第八单元 健康医疗
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Keys to Exercises
练习参考答案
References
参考文献
The financial crisis today also exposes irrationalities in realms beyond finance. One example is U.S. President Barack Obamas call for trading in carbon credits as a solution to the climate crisis. In that supposedly progressive proposal, corporations that meet emissions standards sell credits to others that fail to meet their own targets. The Kyoto Protocol called for a similar system swapped across states. Fatefully however, both plans depend on the same volatile derivatives markets that are inherently open to manipulation and credit crashes. Marx would insist that, to find solutions to global problems such as climate change, we need to break with the logic of capitalist markets rather than use state institutions to reinforce them. Likewise, he would call for international economic solidarity rather than competition among states. As he put it in the Manifesto, " United action, of the leading... countries, at least, is the first condition for the emancipation of the proletariat. "Yet the work of building new institutions and movements for change must begin at home. Although he made the call "Workers of the world, unite！" Marx still insisted that workers in each country "first of all settle things with their own bourgeoisie. " The measures required to transform existing economic, political, and legal institutions would " of course be different in different countries. " But in every case, Marx would insist that the way to bring about radical change is first to get people to think ambitiously again.
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