當代研究生英語閱讀教程1（簡體書）

本教程分為兩冊，內容新穎、材料真實、題材廣泛，涉及工業、農業、文學、醫學、藝術、歷史、科學、教育、能源、環境、社會等36個主題。本書為第一冊。

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 Gullivers 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 Leonardos 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 Coontzs 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 -- Mans 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 Civilizations 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 Churchills Speech: Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
Passage 3 Albert Einsteins Speech: Peace in the Atomic Era
Unit 20 Literature
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Shakespeares Plays
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Romanticism in Literature
Passage 2 The Lost Generation
Passage 3 Detective Fiction
Keys
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