CCONTTEENTTSS Unit 1 Urban Planning .................................................... 1 Text A Pre-reading tasks .....................................................................................................................2 Living Lab: Urban Planning Goes Digital in Spanish “Smart City” ..............................................................................................................3 After-reading check ..............................................................................................................7 Academic writing ....................................................................................................................11 ? Planning essays ............................................................................................................................. 11 ? Writing an explanation essay ................................................................................................13 Text B Urban Resilience for a New Century .....................................................15 After-reading check ...........................................................................................................19 Academic writing ...................................................................................................................22 ? Nominalization: moving towards more academic writing ..................................22 ? Modality: using modality in your writing .........................................................................25 Critical thinking .......................................................................................................................26 Unit 2 Education ............................................................ 27 Text A Pre-reading tasks ..................................................................................................................28 Higher Education, Creative Destruction .....................................................29 After-reading check ...........................................................................................................33 Academic writing ...................................................................................................................36 ? Writing an argument essay ....................................................................................................36 Text B Free Education: Learning New Lessons .....................................................39 After-reading check ...........................................................................................................45 Academic writing ...................................................................................................................48 ? Cohesion through discourse markers: addition, example, deduction and summation .....................................................................................................48 ? Writing a comparison and contrast essay ....................................................................49 Critical thinking ........................................................................................................................52 iv 综合学术英语 教程 Unit 3 Science and Technology ................................... 55 Pre-reading tasks Text A ..................................................................................................................56 At 50 Years Old, the Challenge to Keep up with Moore’s Law ......57 After-reading check ...........................................................................................................61 Academic writing ...................................................................................................................65 ? Writing a discussion essay .....................................................................................................65 Text B The Future of Computing after Moore’s Law ...................................69 After-reading check ...........................................................................................................73 Academic writing ...................................................................................................................76 ? Cohesion through markers that indicate reasons ....................................................76 ? Writing a cause and e ect essay .......................................................................................77 Critical thinking ........................................................................................................................80 Unit 4 Economy ............................................................. 83 Text A Pre-reading tasks ..................................................................................................................84 Wage Inequality: A Race between Education and Technology? .........................................................................................................85 After-reading check ...........................................................................................................88 Academic writing ...................................................................................................................93 ? Paragraph formatting 1..............................................................................................................93 Text B Is Brexit the Beginning of the End for Globalization? .................95 After-reading check ...........................................................................................................99 Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 102 ? Di erences between spoken and written register...............................................102 Critical thinking .................................................................................................................... 106 Unit 5 Academic Dishonesty ...................................... 107 Text A Pre-reading tasks ............................................................................................................... 108 When “Exciting” Trumps “Honest”, Traditional Academic Journals Encourage Bad Science ........................................................109 After-reading check .........................................................................................................113 Academic writing .................................................................................................................116 v Contents ? Paragraph formatting 2 .......................................................................................................... 116 Text B Innovation: Time to Fix Patents .............................................................120 After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 124 Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 127 ? Interpreting and describing information from tables and gures ...............127 Critical thinking .................................................................................................................... 130 Unit 6 Medication and Health ..................................... 131 Pre-reading tasks Text A ............................................................................................................... 132 Is This Antibiotic Apocalypse? ................................................................133 After-reading check ........................................................................................................ 137 Academic writing ................................................................................................................ 141 ? Writing to propose ....................................................................................................................141 Text B Promoting Immunology: The Future Is Here ................................143 After-reading check ........................
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