本书是《英语阅读技巧与实践》系列教材的第四册,是为高等学校英语专业学生编写的阅读教材。该教材依据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》对英语阅读课程的要求编写,其编写的目的是:教给学生阅读理论和技巧,培养他们细致观察语言的能力和假设判断、推理验证等逻辑思维能力;培养他们阅读的兴趣,使他们在较短的时间里尽快扩大词汇量和知识面,提高思想和文化素养,从而提高阅读水平和能力,通过阅读更快更好地获取世界上各国有用的政治、经济、文化和科技等方面的信息,为我国的改革开放和社会主义建设服务。
全书共有40个passages,每篇后注明单词数并配有各种练习,便于学生综合运用各种技巧,进行计时阅读。
《英语阅读技巧与实践》系高等院校英语专业阅读课系列教材,2001年获国家级教学成果二等奖;2005年获中国大学出版社协会优秀教材一等奖;2006年被教育部确定为普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材。
PASSAGE 1 Yellow Fever
PASSAGE 2 Intelligence in Animals
PASSAGE 3 Electronic Burglar Alarms
PASSAGE 4 America's New Recession
PASSAGE 5 The Discovery of a Sunken Ship
PASSAGE 6 Man Hunters of the USA
PASSAGE 7 Frank Turner
PASSAGE 8 The Interaction of Body and Mind
PASSAGE 9 The Land and the People
PASSAGE 10 Supermarkets
PASSAGE 11 Sex on the Job
PASSAGE 12 From the Other Side of the Generation Gap
PASSAGE 13 A Virtual University
PASSAGE 14 WTO Finds US Trade Damaged by EU Beef Import Ban
PASSAGE 15 Two Major Parties in Britain
PASSAGE 16 Reeds, Pens and Beyond
PASSAGE 17 Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth
PASSAGE 18 How Hurricanes Get Their Names
PASSAGE 19 Indo-European Languages
PASSAGE 20 Death.a Part of Life
PASSAGE 21 Tame Volcanoes
PASSAGE 22 The Secret Language of Barrier Signals
PASSAGE 23 The Birth of Jesus
PASSAGE 24 The Man with the Jade Mask
PASSAGE 25 The Piece of String
PASSAGE 26 Robert Baden-Powell, Secret Agent
PASSAGE 27 Stuck on Stamps
PASSAGE 28 The American Tax System
PASSAGE 29 We Are Not a Nation of Tax Cheats
PASSAGE 30 Insurance
PASSAGE 31 Investment Banking Companies
PASSAGE 32 Weather Catastrophe-Then and Now?
PASSAGE 33 Bittersweet Companions
PASSAGE 34 Safeguarding Life
PASSAGE 35 The Red Data Books
PASSAGE 36 The First Ecologists
PASSAGE 37 Twins,Genes and Environment
PASSAGE 38 The Antler Riddle
PASSAGE 39 Beneath the Canopy
PASSAGE 40 Paralinguistic Communication
APPENDIX Keys, Notes and Vocabulary