《科技英语阅读》教程是为大学英语基础阶段教学后续课程所编写的系列教材之一。本教程是大学英语基础教学向专业英语教学过渡的教材，其目的在于巩固学生在大学英语基础阶段所学的英语技能，拓宽语言知识面，扩大词汇量和专业阅读量，培养学生自主学习能力及以英语为工具获取专业信息、翻译科技文献资料、撰写科技论文的能力，以促进非英语专业高年级学生专业课的学习与提高，增强其对国际知识与信息横向交流的能力。

Unit 1 Mathematics

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

What is Russell's Paradox?

Who Discovered the Mandelbrot Set?

 Part Ⅱ EST Reading Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 2 Physics

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

What is Dark Energy?

Physics: quantum Computing

 Part Ⅱ EST Reading Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 3 Network Security

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

When Everyone's a friend, is anything Private?

Cybercrime: the Global Epidemic at your Network Door

 Part Ⅱ EST Reading Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 4 Electronic information (robots)

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

Remote-controlled Robot Surrogate Could attend your Next Meeting for you

A Digital Dark age? Challenges in the Preservation of Electronic information

 Part Ⅱ EST translation Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 5 Materials

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

Is Straw the building Material of the furore?

DNA - a New Material for Photonics?

 Part Ⅱ EST Reading Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 6 Mechanics and automotives

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

The future vision for Mechanical Engineering

The invention of the Modern automobile

 Part Ⅱ EST translation Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 7 Genetic Engineering

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

Genetic Engineering in a Nutshell

Tools for DNA Manipulation

 Part Ⅱ EST translation Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 8 Space Exploration

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

Does God Play Dice?

Machine Dreams

 Part Ⅱ EST Writing Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 9 urban Planning

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

Urbanisation in Medcs

Urban Planning and 21st Century urbanisation

 Part Ⅱ EST Writing Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources

Unit 10 Nuclear Energy

 Part Ⅰ EST Reading

Nuclear Power Worldwide: Status and Outlook

The legacy of E = Mc2

 Part Ⅱ EST Writing Strategy

 Part Ⅲ Online Resources