标题：当代研究生英语阅读教程2
图书信息
出版社: 高等教育出版社; 第1版 (2009年9月1日)
平装: 291页
正文语种: 简体中文, 英语
开本: 16
ISBN: 9787040281507
条形码: 9787040281507
尺寸: 25.2 x 19.2 x 1.2 cm
重量: 499 g
内容简介
《当代研究生英语阅读教程2》内容简介：语言文化知识的获取离不开真实的语言学习环境。中国学生在本土学习英语，要想创建真实的语言环境并非易事，而阅读是语言和文化学习的重要手段和途径。通过阅读，学生可以身临其境，获取大量语言知识，从而发展和提升英语综合应用能力。与此同时，通过广泛接触内容丰富、文体不同的文章，学生会进一步扩大和掌握英语词汇，熟悉各种语言现象和写作技巧，全面提升整体英语水平。
为此，我们特地编写了《当代研究生英语阅读教程》。该教程内容经过严格的筛选和科学的设计，在选材、内容编排、练习设计等方面体现以下特点。既注重时代性，又突出经典性
注重时代性。本教程很多文章选自近年国外权威的报刊、杂志，具有鲜明的时代感，主要体现在选择当今社会的热门话题，例如：能源危机、环境保护、国际经济、金融海啸、器官再造等，主题丰富，语言地道，既体现时代特色，又注重文化内涵及思想深意，反映时代发展，展现语言魅力。
突出经典性。在注重时代性的同时，本教程也注重从经典的英文原版著作中选材，内容涉及哲学、经济学、文学、历史、文化、心理学等方面，充分体现其经典性。通过阅读这些文章，学生可充分体验经典的魅力。
目录
Unit 1 Food and Diet 
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Food: Past and Present
Part Ⅲ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  A New Diet Equation
Passage 2  Diet, Nutrition and Healthy Living
Passage 3  Cancer and Diet
Unit 2　Archaeology
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Excavating an Ancient Egyptian Tomb
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Troy Uncovered
Passage 2  Pompeii: Buried in Ages
Passage 3  Machu Picchu Archaeological Sites
Unit 3 Medicine  
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
A Brief History of Medicine
Part　Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth}
Passage 1  The Controversy over Human Cloning
Passage 2  Natural Medicine —— The Way Home
Passage 3  How to Build a Body Part
Unit 4 Space                  
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
When Galaxies Collide
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Transient Lunar Phenomena
Passage 2  Water, Flash Floods and New Possibilities for Life on
Passage 3  The Salyut Experience
Unit 5 Histoy 
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Rome: From Republic to Empire
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Anglo-Saxon England
Passage 2  The Enlightenment
Passage 3  Victorian Era
Unit 6 Biography
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
An American Storyteller: Ernest Hemingway
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Johannes Kepler
Passage 2  Napoleon —— Downfall and Legend
Passage 3  Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meek
Unit 7 Leisure Reading(Ⅲ)     
Passage 1  Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Passage 2  The Trial of O. J. Simpson
Passage 3  That Lean and Hungry Look
Passage 4  An Excerpt from Jane Eyre
Unit 8  Economics 
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
What Is Economics?
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Passage 2  Karl Marx's Economic Conceptions
Passage 3  John Maynard Keynes
Unit 9 Materlals Sclence 
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
A Brief History of Materials
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  The Age of Superstuff
Passage 2  Superconductor Search: a Race and an Obsession
Passage 3  The Future of Nanomaterials
Unit 10 Philosophy 
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
What Is Philosophy?
Part　Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Socratic Method
Passage 2  Rene Descartes' Dualism and Rationalism
Passage 3  Brief Introduction to Kant  
Unit 11 Law 
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension ( Skimming and Scanning)
An Introduction to Law
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Origins of Common Law
Passage 2  The American Jury System: Standing in the Way of Justice?
Passage 3  Nuremberg Trials
Unit 12 Education            
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
The University and Society
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Set Universities Free
Passage 2  Requirements for Completion in U.S. Graduate Schools
Passage 3  Bertrand Russell on Education
Unit 13 Spots
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Social Aggregates and Cultural Influences in the Rise of Sport
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Good Sports
Passage 2  Spectator Sports Reflect America's Melting Pot
Passage 3  How David Stern and Michael Jordan May Have Destroyed
Unit 14 Leisure Reading(Ⅳ)
Passage 1  King Edward Ⅷ Abdicated for Love
Passage 2  Love Is a Fallacy (Part Ⅰ )
Passage 3  Love Is a Fallacy (Part　Ⅱ )
Passage 4  An Excerpt from Death in the Afternoon
Unit 15 Ectertainment
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
The Beatles
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Is the Web the Future of Entertainment?
Passage 2  A History of Oscar's Ups and Downs
Passage 3  Soap Opera
Unit 16 Book Review
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)
Passage I  Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Passage 2  Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Passage 3  Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Unit 17 Conputer and Internet                   
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Computer Science
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Life on the Net
Passage 2  Alienation and the Internet
Passage 3  Crime in Cyberspace
Unit 18 Architecure
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
European Architecture: History and Styles
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  The Castles of Europe
Passage 2  Islamic Architecture
Passage 3  Modern Architecture: Reaching for the Sky
Unit 19 Management 
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Management Strategies in Competing with Japan
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Chaos Theory of Management
Passage 2  Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory
Passage 3  Scenario Planning
Unit 20 Psychology
Part Ⅰ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Freudian Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1  Dreams: Night School
Passage 2  Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Passage 3  The New Word on Gossip
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