《当代研究生英语阅读教程》是根据《非英语专业研究生英语教学大纲》和当代研究生英语发展及时代要求的原则，本着有效地提高学生的英语阅读能力、全面提升研究生英语语言素养的目的而编写的。

本教程分为两册，内容新颖、材料真实、题材广泛，涉及工业、农业、文学、医学、艺术、历史、科学、教育、能源、环境、社会等36个主题。选文兼顾不同学科，融知识性、趣味性和可读性于一体。为更好地体现可读性和趣味性，我们特地安排了4个“轻松阅读”单元，相信将会极大地激发学生的兴趣，让他们在感知英语语言魅力的同时，在潜移默化中培养他们的科学素养和人文精神。

Unit 1 Career Planning

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Career Planning

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Portfolio Career

Passage 2 What Employers Will Want from You?

Passage 3 Career Fit

Unit 2 Geography

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Geography of the Sea

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth}

Passage 1 Mediterranean Sea

Passage 2 Unique Geography of Australia

Passage 3 Grand Canyon

Unit 3 Health

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

The "Milieu Interieur" (The Environment Within)

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Three Kinds of Fatigue

Passage 2 Better to Be Fat and Fit than Skinny and Unfit

Passage 3 Promotion of Health and Longevity

Unit 4 Biology

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Darwin and the Theory of Evolution

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage i The Race to Discover the Genetic Code

Passage 2 The Biodiversity of the Rainforest

Passage 3 Man and Apes: Are We Really So Different?

Unit 5 Travelogue

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Marco Polo and His Travels

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage I Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Passage 2 American Notes by Charles Dickens

Passage 3 Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Unit 6 Energy

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

The Permanent Energy Crisis

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 The Master of Wind

Passage 2 Energy Efficiency

Passage 3 Hybrid Fiction

Unit 7 Leisure Reading(I)

 Passage 1 What Do Women Really Want?

 Passage 2 Men Are like Rubber Bands

 Passage 3 Women Are like Waves

 Passage 4 After Twenty Years

Unit 8 Art

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

How Art Functions

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 The Impressionists

 Passage 2 Leonardo's Mona Lisa

 Passage 3 Keys to Successful Art

Unit 9 Environment

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Abiotic and Biotic Factors in Environment

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Can We Save the World by 2015?

Passage 2 Environmental Waste Solutions for an Ever-changing World

Passage 3 Creating a Cleaning Environment

Unit 10 International Trade

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Free Trade

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Passage 2 Protectionism (Part Ⅰ )

Passage 3 Protectionism (Part Ⅱ )

Unit 11 Animals

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Animal Rights -- How We Treat Animals Reflects Who We Are

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) ~

Passage 1 Smart, Curious, Ticklish. Rats?

Passage 2 Several Interesting Traits of Birds

Passage 3 A Big Win for Polar Bears?

Unit 12 Marriage

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

A Review of Coontz's Marriage, a History

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 On Happiness in Marriage

Passage 2 Marital Violence

Passage 3 American Society Favors Marriage

Unit 13 Industry and Agriculture

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

American Industry and War

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth )

Passage 1 Green Revolution

Passage 2 Financial Crisis Adds to Pressure on Auto Industry

Passage 3 Organic Farming

Unit 14 Leisure Reading (II)

 Passage 1 I Want a Wife

 Passage 2 Chaplin and Modem Times

 Passage 3 How Obarna Happened: The Real Story

 Passage 4 An Excerpt from Gone with the Wind

Unit 15 Resources

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Water Crisis

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Risky Race for Minerals

Passage 2 Palm Oil Biodiesel

Passage 3 The Oceans -- Man's Last Resource

Unit16 Finance

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Financial Tsunami

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth}

Passage 1 Warren Buffett

Passage 2 Stock Market

Passage 3 Barings Bank Collapses

Unit 17 Anthropology

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

An Overview of Anthropology

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth}

Passage 1 Human Origins

 Passage 2 Civilization's Rise and Descent

 Passage 3 Finding Lucy and Other Fossil Treasures

Unit 18 Sociology

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Sociology

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Dirty Work

Passage 2 The Tragedy of Old Age in America

Passage 3 Insights into Gender Differences

Unit 19 Speech

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Roman Oratory

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Myths About Public Speaking

Passage 2 Winston Churchill's Speech: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat

Passage 3 Albert Einstein's Speech: Peace in the Atomic Era

Unit 20 Literature

 Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

Shakespeare's Plays

 Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

Passage 1 Romanticism in Literature

Passage 2 The Lost Generation

Passage 3 Detective Fiction

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