大学英语阅读教程

出版时间：2008-5  出版社：对外经济贸易大学出版社  作者：陈俐丽,李新萍  页数：430  字数：357000  

内容概要

为了帮助广大英语学习者提高阅读理解能力，丰富阅读资料，我们编写了《大学英语阅读教程——社会篇》。本册是该系列教程的第四分册。我们希望大家通过阅读本册，提高阅读速度和理解、分析的能力，掌握常用表达法，并通过练习训练语言技能。同时，对我们的社会中多样的文化有更深刻的了解。    本册试图从不同地域、不同文化背景的视角，向大家展示目前社会上人们关注的大问题和小问题，以及对这些问题的不同看法。供讨论用的问题引导读者联系本土实际，阐述个人观点。编写过程中，我们力求语言的实用性和内容的趣味性并存，对语言难点、文化背景、历史背景等进行简略的解释。    本书分为27个单元，每个单元两篇课文，附有注释和理解练习、语言练习。其中理解练习既照顾对全文的把握又考察对词汇等细节的理解；语言练习也根据其难易程度设计不同的形式。

书籍目录

Unit 1  Child Education  TEXT A  Should You Homeschool Your Child？  TEXT B  Teach Your Children WellUnit 2  Health  TEXT A  Can Work Kill？  TEXT B  Mental HealthUnit 3  Your Ancestry  TEXT A  So you Think You’re English？ （Part Ⅰ）  TEXT B  So You Think You’re English？ （Part Ⅱ）Unit 4  Parenthood  TEXT A  Is There a Kipper in the House？  TEXT B  You’re on Your Own NowUnit 5  Environment  TEXT A  A Film That Could Warm Up the Debate on Global Wanning  TEXT B  No， it’s Not a Ski Resort —— it’s the South PoleUnit 6  The Future of Money  TEXT A  Paying by Mobile，That’ll do Nicely  TEXT B  A Cash CallUnit 7  Who’s to Blame  TEXT A  America’s Tragedy  TEXT B  Public Anger Will Follow Our SorrowUnit 8  Learning about the Past  TEXT A  Where History Isn’t Bunk  TEXT B  The Truth in ChainsUnit 9  Time and Space  TEXT A  Shaping the Future  TEXT B  Giant Step to Discovering Alien LifeUnit 10  Urbanization  TEXT A  Head for the Hills but a Heart for the City  TEXT B  China’s ChicagoUnit 11 Happiness  TEXT A  The Secret to Happiness  TEXT B  How to Plant the Seeds of HappinessUnit 12  Women’s Role  TEXT A  Breaking the Glass Ceiling is Harder Abroad  TEXT B  I’ll Tell You Why Women Are Running Out of Men to MarryUnit 13  Internet Security  TEXT A  Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction （Part Ⅰ）  TEXT B  Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction （Part Ⅱ）Unit 14  Character Education  TEXT A  Character Education  TEXT B  Creating a Framework for ExcellenceUnit 15  What’s in the News  TEXT A  The Month When Our Culture Collapses Into a Pile of Preferences  TEXT B  Crime and PunishmentUnit 16  Scientific Attitude  TEXT A  Citation Analysis  TEXT B  After Dolly: The Future of CloningUnit 17  Health and Medicine  TEXT A  Are Yanks Sicker Than Brats？ Or Are We Just a Bunch of Hypochondriacs？  TEXT B  World’s Best Medical Care？Unit 18  Human Nature  TEXT A  We’re Born to Be Wild  TEXT B  The Honesty VirusUnit 19 Marketing  TEXT A  Forces Affecting Modem Marketing  TEXT B  The Impact of AdvertisingUnit 20  Education  TEXT A  Exams Work Because They’re Scary  TEXT B  We are Obsessed With Having FunUnit 21  Sports Scandal  TEXT A  If You Rig It，They Will Come -- How Capitalism Just Might Save Italian Soccer  TEXT B  The Secret SteroidUnit 22  Gender Roles  TEXT A  Who’s the Daddy？  TEXT B  Just Remember ——This Is a Boy ThingUnit 23  Terrorism  TEXT A  Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers  TEXT B  The Terrorism IndexUnit 24  Future Life  TEXT A  The Future of Books  TEXT B  2050 -and Immortality Is Within Our GraspUnit 25  Aging  TEXT A  The Aging Boom  TEXT B  Think Yourself LuckyUnit 26  The Rights to Live and Die  TEXT A  Euthanasia  TEXT B  Diana， Princess of Wales， Divided the NationUnit 27  School and Society  TEXT A  What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace  TEXT B  How to Get On in the Real WorldAppendix 1  Key to ExercisesAppendix 2  Glossary