大学英语实用阅读（上）

作者简介

本教材选材范围广，知识性强，信息量大，趣味性浓。题材涉及幽默探源、自然灾害、品牌意识、动物奇趣、性别差异、环境问题、垃圾食品、星际迷航、绿色殉葬、恐怖主义、智商与种族、自闭症等。既有传统文学大师的华彩乐章，又有跨国公司和Bill Gates 的真知灼见；既有风俗介绍，又有励志进取的文章。该书选材注重原汁原味，并试图给四、六级应试和研究生入学考试的学生提供试前的最好阅读训练素材。全书共分15个单元，每单元由课前讨论课文、注释、课后练习和补充阅读等部分组成。

书籍目录

Unit 1Text　How to Measure What You Learned in CollegeSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Six Ways to Be Happy with Your College ChoicePassage 2　Funding in American Higher EducationUnit 2Text　A Worldwide Gender GapSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Women?s Position in the 17th CenturyPassage 2　Gaining Ground on the Wage FrontUnit 3Text　What Animals Really Think：Food，Warmth， Sleep?Their Thoughts May Be Much Deeper Than ThatSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　How Did Dogs Become Adept at Playing to Humans?Passage 2　Death of a TigerUnit 4Text　Tide of GriefSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Tide of Grief（continued）Passage 2　In the Wake of the TsunamiUnit 5Text　Fighting “Big Fat”Supplementary ReadingPassage 1　It?s Not the Carbs， StupidPassage 2　A Gene That Says，“No More”Unit 6Text　Artful AgingSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Four Rules for Living a Long Healthy LifePassage 2　The Power of Positive ThinkingUnit 7Text　Merchants of DeathSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Humans Were Born to Run， Fossil Study SuggestsPassage 2　A Job or a Cigarette?Unit 8Text　Testing the Science of IntelligenceSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　In Defiance of DarwinPassage 2　Color?Coordinated “Truths”Unit 9Text　Scientists Try to Find out What?s So Funny about HumorSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Searching for the DivinePassage 2　Spiders Watch Their Diets Too，Study SaysUnit 10Text　What?s in a Name?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1　Developing a Company Image and BrandPassage 2　Brand Management：Define Your Identity， Then Stick to ItUnit 11Text　Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact with the Earth in 2880?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1　Prehistoric Asteroid“Killed Everything”Passage 2　“Dinosaur?Killer”Asteroid Crater Imaged for First TimeUnit 12Text　Green Burials：Thinking Outside the BoxSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Home Funerals： An Old Tradition ReturnsPassage 2　Waste Leads to Worry in IndonesiaUnit 13Text　When Does Autism Start?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1　When Does Autism Start?（continued）passage 2　Lost and Found： One Woman?s Remarkable TransformationUnit 14Text　Border Net Has Become a NooseSupplementary ReadingPassage 1　Back to Our Regularly Scheduled ProgrammingPassage 2　Turning a CornerUnit 15Text　Is It Apocalypse Now?Supplementary ReadingPassage 1　Is It Apocalypse Now?（continued）Passage 2　The End Is Not at Hand

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