《现代英语》(Modern English)是由我国高等教育出版社和英国麦克米伦出版公司联合出版的,是根据我国《大学英语教学大纲》的精神和要求设计编写的。作者是英国语言学家 S·雷克,G·R·埃文斯,D·沃森和 P·戈德史密斯,审稿者是上海交通大学杨惠中、重庆大学韩其顺、北京外国语学院周献桃和高等教育出版社曹根望。因此、这套系列型分级教材的问世,从某种意义上说,也是中英文化交流和合作的产物。 Modern English, co-published by China’s Higher Education Press and Macmillan Publishers, is based on the spirit and requirements of the Syllabus for College English. The authors are British linguists S Rake, RG Evans, D Watson and P Goldsmith, peer reviewed by Shanghai Jiaotong University Yang Huizhong, Chongqing University Han Qishun, Beijing Foreign Studies University Zhou Xian Tao and higher education Press Cao roots hope. Therefore, the advent of this series of graded textbooks is, in a sense, a product of Sino-British cultural exchanges and cooperation.