大学英语实用阅读（上）
2005-6
人民大学
周俊英
311
《大学英语选修课系列教材：大学英语实用阅读（上）（非英语专业本科用）》选材范围广，知识性强，信息量大，趣味性浓。题材涉及幽默探源、自然灾害、品牌意识、动物奇趣、性别差异、环境问题、垃圾食品、星际迷航、绿色殉葬、恐怖主义、智商与种族、自闭症等。既有传统文学大师的华彩乐章，又有跨国公司和Bill Gates 的真知灼见；既有风俗介绍，又有励志进取的文章。该书选材注重原汁原味，并试图给四、六级应试和研究生入学考试的学生提供试前的最好阅读训练素材。全书共分15个单元，每单元由课前讨论课文、注释、课后练习和补充阅读等部分组成。
Unit 1Text How to Measure What You Learned in CollegeSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Six Ways to Be Happy with Your College ChoicePassage 2 Funding in American Higher EducationUnit 2Text A Worldwide Gender GapSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Women?s Position in the 17th CenturyPassage 2 Gaining Ground on the Wage FrontUnit 3Text What Animals Really Think：Food，Warmth， Sleep?Their Thoughts May Be Much Deeper Than ThatSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 How Did Dogs Become Adept at Playing to Humans?Passage 2 Death of a TigerUnit 4Text Tide of GriefSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Tide of Grief（continued）Passage 2 In the Wake of the TsunamiUnit 5Text Fighting “Big Fat”Supplementary ReadingPassage 1 It?s Not the Carbs， StupidPassage 2 A Gene That Says，“No More”Unit 6Text Artful AgingSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Four Rules for Living a Long Healthy LifePassage 2 The Power of Positive ThinkingUnit 7Text Merchants of DeathSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Humans Were Born to Run， Fossil Study SuggestsPassage 2 A Job or a Cigarette?Unit 8Text Testing the Science of IntelligenceSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 In Defiance of DarwinPassage 2 Color?Coordinated “Truths”Unit 9Text Scientists Try to Find out What?s So Funny about HumorSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Searching for the DivinePassage 2 Spiders Watch Their Diets Too，Study SaysUnit 10Text What?s in a Name?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1 Developing a Company Image and BrandPassage 2 Brand Management：Define Your Identity， Then Stick to ItUnit 11Text Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact with the Earth in 2880?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1 Prehistoric Asteroid“Killed Everything”Passage 2 “Dinosaur?Killer”Asteroid Crater Imaged for First TimeUnit 12Text Green Burials：Thinking Outside the BoxSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Home Funerals： An Old Tradition ReturnsPassage 2 Waste Leads to Worry in IndonesiaUnit 13Text When Does Autism Start?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1 When Does Autism Start?（continued）passage 2 Lost and Found： One Woman?s Remarkable TransformationUnit 14Text Border Net Has Become a NooseSupplementary ReadingPassage 1 Back to Our Regularly Scheduled ProgrammingPassage 2 Turning a CornerUnit 15Text Is It Apocalypse Now?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1 Is It Apocalypse Now?（continued）Passage 2 The End Is Not at Hand
