孙云波主编的《研究生英语阅读与写作》共分十二个单元，每个单元由阅读和写作两部分组成。阅读部分包括三篇文章。每篇文章由预读问题、正文、回答问题组成。阅读理解不采用选择的形式，试图通过回答问题加强学习者提取信息、整合信息、表达语言的训练。写作从学习者容易忽视的基本原则开始，到词汇、句子、段落及全文，描述其本质特征，针对常见错误进行分析，阐述写作的基本步骤，辅以丰富翔实的例子，力求为学习者写好英语文章打下扎实的基础。在此基础上展开论文写作的讨论，尤其是论文撰写的，_些要领，如引用、转述、总结以及摘要的写作。每一部分均提供了丰富的实例，为自主学习提供了很好的训练机会。

Unit 1

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Here Come the Supertaskers

Passage Two: The Great Survivor

Passage Three: The Strange Survival of Ink

 Writing Practice Basic Principles of English Writing

Unit 2

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One : Roaring Tigers, Anxious Choppers

Passage Two: Parenting: The Case for Keeping out

Passage Three: Wired for Distraction?

 Writing Practice Diction

Unit 3

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Marketing to Your Mind

Passage Two: Time Travel in the Brain

Passage Three: Wherever You Are, Be There Totally

 Writing Practice Writing Effective Sentences

Unit 4

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: The Global Jobs Challenge

Passage Two: The Why-Worry Generation

Passage Three: Where the Jobs Aren't: Grappling with Structural Unemployment

 Writing Practice Avoid Common Errors in Writing Sentences

Unit 5

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One : Beijing Tries to Push beyond 'Made in China'

Passage Two: Is There Life after Debt?

Passage Three: Taxing Sodas for a Healthier Economy?

 Writing Practice Paragraph (1) General Remarks

Unit 6

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Condemned to Joy

Passage Two: Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything about You

Passage Three : The "Busy" Trap

 Writing Practice Paragraph (2) Ways of Developing Different Types of Paragraph

Unit 7

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Japan and the United States

Passage Two: Asia's Lonely Hearts

Passage Three: The Great Brain Race

 Writing Practice Essay (1) Process of Essay Writing

Unit 8

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Chinese Concept of "Face"

Passage Two: Vanity and Face

Passage Three : "Face" and Life

 writing Practice Essay (2) Different Genres of Essay

Unit 9

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Paying for Nature

Passage Two: Storm of the Century

Passage Three: Artificial Intelligence

 Writing Practice How to Write a Research Paper

Unit 10

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Tucson Tragedy: Is Gun Control a Dead Issue?

Passage Two: Ban the Things. Ban Them All.

Passage Three: Automated Theft Machines

 Writing Practice How to Quote and Paraphrase

Unit 11

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: Enjoyment, Fear and Confidence

Passage Two : How I Learned about the Power of Writing

Passage Three: A Report on I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

 Writing Practice How to Write a Summary

Unit 12

 Reading for Comprehension

Passage One: What is Poverty?

Passage Two: How Science Could Spark a Second Green Revolution

Passage Three: Influenza [1] and Its Complications

 Writing Practice How to Write an Abstract

Keys for Reference

 Unit One

 Unit Two

 Unit Three

 Unit Four

 Unit Five

 Unit Six

 Unit Seven

 Unit Eight

 Unit Nine

 Unit Ten

 Unit Eleven

 Unit Twelve

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