大学英语阅读教程(第2册大学英语促学助考系列教材)

本书课文题材广泛，涉及科学与技术、环境与发展、语言与社会、事业与成功、母爱与亲情、大学生活、老年社会、人际关系、经典阅读、娱乐文化、世纪回顾、网络世界、大众传媒等。编者运用语料库的方法进行了文本定量分析，编排顺序以主课文阅读难度而定，对词汇量、词频、难易程度进行了一定的控制。练习包括阅读理解、词汇结构、口语实践、关键词组、短语翻译、写作等形式，注重实实在在的语言运用实践，注重学习者的自觉参与。本书适合大学英语一年级学生在第二学期或具有相当水平的自学者使用，建议每周学习一个单元。可根据学生的实际情况，部分课文课堂讲授，部分学生自学，程度较高的学生可全部自学。

Unit 1 Learn to Respect Eacfi Otfier
Text A The Little Girl Who Dared to Wish
Text B Learning to Love Yourself.
Unit 2 Growing Ofac
TextA Aging Gracefully
Text B In Praise of Older Women
Unit 3 Cfianges in Language and Society
TextA Does IM Make U Dum?
Text B Were the "Good Old Days" Really So Good?
Unit 4 Success
Text A Wanting to Find Success
Text B Advice to Youth, About 1882
Unit 5 Motfierfiooac
Text A What Motherhood Really Means
Text B Mom's Definitions
Unit 6 Coffege Life
Text A The Geography of English 102
Text B The Myth of College
Unit 7 Reading Classics
Text A Literature: Why Read the Classics?
Text B The Classics: Made, not Born (Continued)
Unit 8 Praise or Criticism
Text A Accused of Plagiarism-My Highest Compliment
Text B My Iron-willed Grandmother
Unit 9 Science and Technofogy
Text A The 19th-Century Internet
Text B The Right Technology: No-teeh, Low-tech, or High-tech
Unit 10 Money Problem
Text A The Pickle Jar
Text B Problems of Life -- Money
Unit11 Environment and Delovment
Text A A More Human Technology
Text B A More Human Technology (Continued)
Unit 12 Entertainment
Text A Hollywood Digital Moment
Text B At Most Schools, Harry Potter Doesn't Make the Cut
Unit 13 Courtesy
Text A We Are a Nation in Rude Health
Text B Why Manners Matter
Unit 14 Tile Internet
Text A Born Yesterday
Text B I Love It
Unit 15 Mass Media
TextA Media Sycophants
Text B Def'ming Freedom of the Press
Glossary