大学英语阅读教程:社会篇

大学英语阅读教程:社会篇
作 者: 陈俐丽 李新萍
出版社: 对外经济贸易大学出版社
丛编项: 大学英语阅读教程系列
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标 签: 英语读物
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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。《大学英语阅读教程:社会篇》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。

图书目录

Unit 1 Child Education

TEXT A Should You Homeschool Your Child?

TEXT B Teach Your Children Well

Unit 2 Health

TEXT A Can Work Kill?

TEXT B Mental Health

Unit 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 Now

Unit 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 Pole

Unit 6 The Future of Money

TEXT A Paying by Mobile,That’ll do Nicely

TEXT B A Cash Call

Unit 7 Who’s to Blame

TEXT A America’s Tragedy

TEXT B Public Anger Will Follow Our Sorrow

Unit 8 Learning about the Past

TEXT A Where History Isn’t Bunk

TEXT B The Truth in Chains

Unit 9 Time and Space

TEXT A Shaping the Future

TEXT B Giant Step to Discovering Alien Life

Unit 10 Urbanization

TEXT A Head for the Hills but a Heart for the City

TEXT B China’s Chicago

Unit 11 Happiness

TEXT A The Secret to Happiness

TEXT B How to Plant the Seeds of Happiness

Unit 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 Marry

Unit 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 Excellence

Unit 15 What’s in the News

TEXT A The Month When Our Culture Collapses Into a Pile of Preferences

TEXT B Crime and Punishment

Unit 16 Scientific Attitude

TEXT A Citation Analysis

TEXT B After Dolly: The Future of Cloning

Unit 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 Virus

Unit 19 Marketing

TEXT A Forces Affecting Modem Marketing

TEXT B The Impact of Advertising

Unit 20 Education

TEXT A Exams Work Because They’re Scary

TEXT B We are Obsessed With Having Fun

Unit 21 Sports Scandal

TEXT A If You Rig It,They Will Come -- How Capitalism Just Might Save Italian Soccer

TEXT B The Secret Steroid

Unit 22 Gender Roles

TEXT A Who’s the Daddy?

TEXT B Just Remember ——This Is a Boy Thing

Unit 23 Terrorism

TEXT A Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers

TEXT B The Terrorism Index

Unit 24 Future Life

TEXT A The Future of Books

TEXT B 2050 -and Immortality Is Within Our Grasp

Unit 25 Aging

TEXT A The Aging Boom

TEXT B Think Yourself Lucky

Unit 26 The Rights to Live and Die

TEXT A Euthanasia

TEXT B Diana, Princess of Wales, Divided the Nation

Unit 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 World

Appendix 1 Key to Exercises

Appendix 2 Glossary