大学英语阅读教程
2008-5
对外经济贸易大学出版社
陈俐丽,李新萍
430
357000
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。
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
