大學英語擴展閱讀教程2（簡體書）

《大學英語擴展閱讀教程》系列叢書根據《大學英語課程教學要求》（試行）的精神和要求編寫而成，本套叢書寓語言于素養教育之中，把枯燥的英語閱讀變成百科知識的涉獵，使英語閱讀不再枯燥。擁有此套叢書，學生就仿佛擁有了一個小型百科知識書架。 本套叢書共分三冊，第一冊以文化藝術類文章為主，第二冊以科技類文章為主，第三冊以人文社科類文章為主。《大學英語擴展閱讀教程》為該系列叢書之一的第二冊分冊。

第一部分 技巧導航
一、閱讀過程中的猜詞技巧
1．利用構詞法知識猜測詞義
1）利用復合法（composition)猜測詞義
2)利用轉化法（conversion)猜測詞義
3)利用派生法（derivation)猜測詞義
4)利用逆成法（back formation)猜測詞義
2．利用文章中的解釋說明猜測詞義
1)根據定義猜測詞義
2)根據同位語猜測詞義
3)根據定語從句猜測詞義
4)根據重述猜測詞義
5)根據舉例猜測詞義
3．利用詞與詞之間的語義關系猜測詞義
1)根據同義關系猜測詞義
2)根據反義關系猜測詞義
3)根據上下義關系猜測詞義
4．利用語篇結構猜測詞義
1)根據一整段猜測詞義
2)根據整篇猜測詞義
5．利用狀語從句猜測詞義
6．利用標點符號猜測詞義
7．利用中文提示猜測詞義
8．利用常識和經驗猜測詞義
二、聯想思維——記憶英語單詞的有效方法
1．聯想思維法的科學依據
2．如何利用聯想思維法記憶單詞
3．恒心和毅力是記憶單詞的關鍵
三、相關資料：圖式理論

第二部分 篇章閱讀
UNIT 1
Text A Microchip, Testament to the Immense Power of Tiny Things
Text B Growth of Wireless Internet Opens New Path for Thieves
Text C Artificial Intelligence

UNIT 2
Text A Unidentified Flying Object
Text B Satellites Free the Mobile Phone
Text C For the First Time, a Spacecraft Impacts with a Comet

UNIT 3
Text A Technology to Meld Chips into Humans Draws Closer
Text B Ultralight Computers
Text C Translation Tools

UNIT 4
Text A Bunker Mentality
Text B Team Claims Success with Rocket Launch
Text C Fee-based Satellite Radio

UNIT 5
Text A Researchers Find a Genetic Link to Obesity
Text B Tobacco Helps Cancer Cells Evade Destruction
Text C Feel Blue? Go Green

UNIT 6
Text A Live or Die
Text B Genetically Modified Foods Feed the World?
Text C Animals Laughed Long Before Humans, Study Says

UNIT 7
Text A SARS Virus No Longer Such a Mystery
Text B Study Says Breast-Cancer Treatments Increase Survival Rates
Text C The Inanimate Environment

UNIT 8
Text A Perspective on Human Behavior
Text B More Attention on Mans Health Care
Text C A New Chip Design May Lead to New Sight

UNIT 9
Text A Superpills with a One-two Punch
Text B Diet Pills: Fen-phen and Redux
Text C Exercise Myths

UNIT 10
Text A Depression Study Finds Hope in Different Treatments, at Least for Some People
Text B While Other Threats Make the News, Heat May Be Natures Deadliest Killer ...
Text C How Humans Are These Creatures?

UNIT 11
Text A Dead Mixer = Alcohol + Tobacco
Text B Health Regulation for Animals
Text C Gene and Giving up Smoking

UNIT 12
Text A Is the Earth Getting Hotter?
Text B Weather: Tornado Science, in a Land with Plenty of Experience
Text C Phone Firms Tapping into Rural Areas

UNIT 13
Text A World No Tobacco Day: A Chance for Smokers to Give Their Bodies a Cigarette
Break
Text B Treatment Developed for Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Text C Food for Thought: How Vitamins （Once Spelled “Vitamines”) Are Important to
Health

UNIT 14
Text A Clean Energy
Text B Wearable Computers You Can Slip into
Text C Skiers Take to Man-made Slopes

UNIT 15
Text A What Happens to Bees in Winter?
Text B A Little Red-eyed Frog Could Hold the Key to Ending the Scourge of AIDS
Text C Animals "Speak" Many Strange Languages

UNIT 16
Text A New Planetary Puzzles
Text B Your Brain on Drugs
Text C The Race against Avian Flu
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