内容提要 本教程旨在帮助学生在学习大学英语过程中适应并熟悉国内外大规模标准化考试中阅读部分的各项要求。即便是在网络和多媒体十分发达的今天,阅读 本教程在选材方面,尽量选择既能激发学生兴趣又能开拓视野、扩大知识面、启发思考和具有时代气息的文章。作为阅读教材,本教程特别注意所选体裁和题材的多样化,以引起学生的兴趣,培养他们阅读各类文章的能力,丰富他们的语言知识。教程中所选体裁不仅有一般阅读教材常见的科学小品、人物传记和表述性文章,而且还选了些小故事和回忆录,使教材内容丰富,语言生动,可读性强。 本教程是根据《大学英语教学指南》《中国英语能力等级量表》五、六级阶段和《关于大学英语四、六级考试题型调整的说明》对阅读理解的相关要求而编写的。阅读文章后的练习包括以下五类题型:多项选择题、信息匹配题、词汇填空题,以及基于观点迥异的相对篇章所出的识别不同观点题和归纳总结、信息核实题。 本教程以主题为单元,围绕同一个话题从不同的侧面选取多个篇章,促进学生对话题的思考和关注。全书共分六个单元,每个单元由五个篇章组成。本教程册和第二册的阅读平均速度为每分钟90词,第三册和第四册的阅读平均速度为每分钟100词。 目录 Unit One Part I What Is Intelligence, Anyway? Part II Personal Benefits of ForeigLanguage Study Part III America's ForeigLanguage Crisis Part IV Learning a Second Language:Weighing the Pros and Cons Part V AAdditional Benefit of Learning a New LanguageUnit Two Part I A Game of Light and Shade Part II WheSummer Found Its Place iMy Heart Part III The Importance of Healthy Family Relationships Part IV Pros and Cons of the Nuclear Family Part V A Most Important Family BondUnit Three Part I Rites of Passage Part II Text GeneratioGap: U R 2 Old Part III The Digital GeneratioGap Part IV How CaAge Diversity AffectYour Company? Here Are the Pros and Cons Part V Is Technology Creating a Family Divide?Unit Four Part I The Fuand Excitement of"Reality" Part II Once Upoa Time There Were No Cell Phones Part III The Importance of InformatioTechnology iEducation Part IV Virtual Reality ithe Classroom:Advantages and Disadvantages Part V Three Ways VR Will Impact the Future of Tech CareersUnit Five Part I Do Animals Think? Part II Natural and Applied Science Part III How Smart Are Animals? Part IV Advantages and Disadvantages of Industrial Robots Part V Dolphins --The Smartest Animals oEarthUnit Six Part I Reading --The Most Important Way to LearEnglish Part II Does Twitter Have It Out for the English Language? Part III LearEnglish Online: How the Internet Is Changing Language Part IV The Pros and Cons of Google Translate Part V Two Ways the Internet Has Changed the English LanguageAppendix Key to ComprehensioExercises 作者介绍
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