新平台大学英语教程
2011-8
哈尔滨工业大学出版社
郑国云 主编
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本书是高等学校十二五规划教材《新平台大学英语教程》系列之一—
—《阅读》分册。本教程内容涵盖北京奥运、金融风暴、汶川地震、H1N1
流感等15个单元，每单元含有A篇和B篇，兼顾教学与自学、精读与泛读、深度与广度。注释简洁贴切，注重异国文化的介绍。
《新平台大学英语教程(阅读)》可作为大学英语四级后的高阶阅读教程，也可供广大英语爱好者、大学英语教师使用。
Unit 1 Earthquakes
Passage A A Nation Grieves
Passage B Earthquakes
Unit 2 Studying Overseas
Passage A Studying at Oxford
Passage B Citations in a Foreign Language
Unit 3 The Olympic Games
Passage A A Splendid Start -- XXIX Olympic Games Opens in
Beijing
Passage B Team Effort -- China Celebrates as the Paralympics
Comes to a Successful Close
Unit 4 Medicine
Passage A Accounting for Taste
Passage B A/H1NI Flu
Unit 5 Space Exploration
Passage A Final Frontier
Passage B How Is Space Junk Dodged?
Unit 6 Education
Passage A Why Are We ttere?
Passage B Women Surpass Men in Advanced Degrees
Unit 7 Finance
Passage A Behind the Global Markets 'Meltdown
Passage B World Markets Catch a U.S. Cold
Unit 8 Culture
Passage A Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Passage B The Ironic Principle
Unit 9 The Environment
Passage A An Eve to the Sea
Passage B Lead Exposure, Brain Damage, and Adult Behavior
Unit 10 Information and Communication Technology
Passage A The Future of Mobile Social Networking
Passage B In Google Earth, a Service Jor Scanning the Heavens
Unit 11 Travelling
Passage A A Naturalist Day in the Tropics
Passage B Las Vegas
Unit 12 Philosophy
Passage A What Use Is Philosophy?
Passage B A Few Words about the Utility of Philosophy
Unit 13 Language and Linguistics
Passage A Corpus Colossal
Passage B Roots of Language Run Deeper than Speech
Unit 14 Computers and Privacy
Passage A Employee Monitoring
Passage B Avoiding a Computer Wasteland
Unit 15 Sea Creatures
Passage A Why Are Coral Reefs So Colorful
Passage B Ocean Magic
Glossary
Key to Exercises
感觉这本书还可以吧，文章挺好，就是拿来当作课本可惜了，对自身的提高没多大帮助！