新编英语阅读速通
2010-1
武汉大学出版社
杨都林，吴少娟 编著
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全书由200篇文章组成，附有阅读技巧10篇和参考答案详解。全书内容涉及地理、历史、人文环境、科技动态、文化风俗、时事新闻。文章浅显易懂，练习体例丰富多样，便于读者和广大公民自学和自测自评。本书确实做到了真正提高阅读和理解能力的速通。
杨都林，1963年出生。英语硕士学位。北京理工大学珠海学院外语学院英语专业教研室主任，副教授。
第一部分 阅读材料 Passage 1 Passage 2 Passage 3 Passage 4 Passage 5 Passage 6 Passage 7 Passage 8 Passage 9 Passage 10 Passage 11 Passage 12 Passage 13 Passage 14 Passage 15 Passage 16 Passage 17 Passage 18 Passage 19 Passage 20 英语阅读技巧一 Passage 21 Passage 22 Passage 23 Passage 24 Passage 25 Passage 26 Passage 27 Passage 28 Passage 29 Passage 30 Passage 31 Passage 32 Passage 33 Passage 34 Passage 35 Passage 36 Passage 37 Passage 38 Passage 39 Passage 40 英语阅读技巧二 Passage 41 Passage 42 Passage 43 Passage 44 Passage 45 Passage 46 Passage 47 Passage 48 Passage 49 Passage 50 Passage 51 Passage 52 Passage 53 Passage 54 Passage 55 Passage 56 Passage 57 Passage 58 Passage 59 Passage 60 英语阅读技巧三 Passage 61 Passage 62 Passage 63 Passage 64 Passage 65 Passage 66 Passage 67 Passage 68 Passage 69 Passage 70 Passage 71 Passage 72 Passage 73 Passage 74 Passage 75 Passage 76 Passage 77 Passage 78 Passage 79 Passage 80 英语阅读技巧四 Passage 81 Passage 82 Passage 83 Passage 84 Passage 85 Passage 86 Passage 87 Passage 88 Passage 89 Passage 90 Passage 91 Passage 92 Passage 93 Passage 94 Passage 95 Passage 96 Passage 97 Passage 98 Passage 99 Passage 100 英语阅读技巧五第二部分 参考答案参考文献
An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about herlittle brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they hadno money. Only a very expensive operation could save him now andthere was no one to lend them the money. When she heard her daddy say to her tearful mother， "Onlya miracle can save him now，" the little girl went to her bedroomand pulled her money from its hiding place and counted itcarefully. She hurried to a drugstore with the money in herhand. "And what do you want？" asked the salesman. "Its for mylittle brother，" the girl answered. "Hes really， really sick and Iwant to buy a miracle. " "Pardon？" said the salesman. "My brother Andrew has something bad growing inside hishead and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how muchdoes a miracle cost？ We dont sell a miracle here， child. Imsorry，" the salesman said with a smile. "Listen， if it isnt enough， ！ can try and get some more. Justtell me how much it costs. " A well-dressed man heard it and asked， "What kind of a miracle does your brother need？"on a hillside and use telescopes to watch dinosaurs in order to knowhow they lived and whether they were good parents. Instead， theyhave to search hard for information from dinosaurs fossils because dinosaurs died out millions of years ago. Its very difficult for the scientists to reach an agreementbecause different results can be got from the same fossils; manyfossils of the same kind of dinosaurs have been dug out from oneplace. They might have formed when an entire group of dinosaursgot stuck all at once. Or they might have been the result ofdinosaurs getting stuck one after another over a course of a fewcenturies. Then we can say that dinosaurs might have in the firstcase lived in big groups and in the second lived alone. Though there are two different results， dinosaur scientists nowgenerally agree that at least some kinds of dinosaurs lived in biggroups. "Thats pretty much settled at this point. " Says PaulSereno， a kind of dinosaurs called Sauropods left behind tracks inthe Western United States that appear to run north and south，suggesting that they even moved long distances together. As to whether dinosaurs cared for their young， dinosaurscientists have turned to the closest living relatives of dinosaurs ——birds and crocodiles —— for possible models. Birds give a lot of care to their young， while crocodiles just help their young to the water. The discovered fossils of dinosaurs sitting on their knees and staying with their young suggest the parents were taking care of their babies， but we still cannot say that all dinosaurs did the same. There is still a long way to go before the above questions could be answered. Dinosaur scientists will have to find more proof to reach an agreement.
为了帮助广大读者提高英语初级阅读能力，本书由从事教学工作多年且经验丰富的教学一线的骨干教师经过精心选材编写而成。其目的是帮助学习者扩大词汇量，增加背景知识，提高英语语言能力，并学会仔细分析语言材料，透过文章的字面意义，深谙作者的真实含义。
