陈勇、廖华英主编的《科技英语阅读教程》专门为科技英语课程编写。全书共12个单元，涉及核能与核辐射、机器人与人工智能、教育研究、地质与地球科学、生物技术、行为科学、材料学、工程学、计算机科学、信息技术、网络安全、科学与社会等较为热门的专业领域。每单元由课堂精讲的课文A和扩展阅读的课文B、C组成。每单元之前配有导读；课文A后面配有阅读理解、摘要写作、科技词汇、讨论等练习；课文B和C也编写了阅读理解和翻译等练习。此外，在教材末尾还附有常见数字、数字符号和数学式表达等专题知识和部分习题的参考答案。本书另配有PPT课件，需要的读者请访问ftp://ftp.tup.tsinghua.edu.cn/下载使用。
本教材适用于科技英语专业学生、英语专业高年级学生，特别适用于理工类高校本科生和研究生，可作为科技英语、学术英语课程的必修课或选修课教材。

Unit 1 Nuclear Power and Nuclear Radiation
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A The Swallows of Fukushima
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B Laser Fusion, with a Difference
Text C Five Years On from Fukushima
Unit 2 Robots and Artifi cial Intelligence
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Robots with Heart
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B Launch the Nanobots
Text C Should We Fear Supersmart Robots?
Unit 3 Education Research
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A A New Vision for Testing
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B The Science of Learning
Text C Rebooting MOOC Research
Unit 4 Geology and Geoscience
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A The Oldest Rocks on Earth
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B Fossil GPS
Text C The Birth of the Geological Map
Unit 5 GM Technology
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Editing the Mushroom
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B The American Chestnut’s Genetic Rebirth
Text C Saltwater Solution
Unit 6 Behavioral Science
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Good Habits, Bad Habits
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B Baby Talk
Text C Conquer Yourself, Conquer the World
Unit 7 Material Science
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Outshining Silicon
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B Beyond Graphene
Text C Using All Energy in a Battery
Unit 8 Engineering
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Birth of a Rocket
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B Shape-Shifting Things to Come
Text C Bottoms Up
Unit 9 Computer Science
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Extra Sensory Perception
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B The Search for a New Machine
Text C Just Add Memory
Unit 10 Information Technology
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Mind Games
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B The Case of Stolen Words
Text C The Tech Jungle
Unit 11 Cyber Security
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Saving Big Data from Itself
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B How to Survive Cyberwar
Text C In Tech We Don’t Trust
Unit 12 Science and Society
Part I Intensive Reading
Text A Our Transparent Future
Part II Extensive Reading
Text B Privacy and Human Behavior in the Age of Information
Text C What the "Right to Be Forgotten" Means for in a Digital Age
Appendix 常见数字、数字符号和数学式英语表达
Answer Keys 参考答案