研究生英語閲讀

內 容 簡 介

本書為非英語專業研究生英語的閲讀教材。全書共有20單元，每個單

元由相關題材的三篇課文和理解練習組成。課文選自英美報刊，涉及當代人

文、科技、經濟、管理和大學生生活等方面的熱點論題。本書有助於讀者提高

英語閲讀水平、擴大詞彙量、拓寬知識面和增強英語口頭表達能力，可供非英

語專業研究生、MBA研究生和以同等學力中請碩士學位的研究生英語教學

和自學使用。

CONTENTS

UNlT ONE

l What Women Do Better

2 Women and Work

3 Women: Invisible Cages

UNlTTWO

4 No Home in Africa

5 A Swimming Lesson

6 Black Men and Public Space

UNlTTHREE

7 Best of British Youth

8 Happiness and Wealth

9 Our Way of Life Makes Us Miserable

UNlTFOUR

10 Television: The Great Time-Eating Machine

11 Books, TV and the Imagination

12 What Did Kids Do before Television

Was Invented?

UNlT FIVE

13 The Land of Disney

14 The End of an Era

15 Time to End False Rumors

UNlT SIX

16 Monday: Why So Unpopular?

l7 How It Feels to Be Out of Work

18 Workaholics

UNlT SEVEN

19 Abandoned before Death

20 Music Is Good Medicine

21 Gene of the Week

UNlT EIGHT

22 The Future of Football

23 ThrillSeekers

24 Sport and the American Dream

UNlT NINE

25 Preserving Our Planet

26 Man' s Role on Earth

27 Will Our World Survive?

UNlTTEN

28 OneWorld, One Economy?

29 Learning to Love the Euro

30 The Spirit of Adam Smith

UNlT ELEVEN

31 The Story of English

32 What Makes a Global Language?

33 Language on the Skids

UNlT TWELVE

34 A Warning from Nature?

35 It's Official: the Earth Is Getting Hotter

36 Spring

UNlT THlRTEEN

37 Cities of the Future

38 A Merging Metropolis

39 If London Cleans Its Air and Water,

Why Can't Our Large Cities?

UNlT FOURTEEN

40 A Feast for the Ears

41 The Voice of America

42 90s Rock: A Mess, but Not Bad

UNlT FlFTEEN

43 The Ultimate Fate

44 How Planets Are Born?

45 What Do We Know about the Universe?

UNlT SlXTEEN

46 Advice to Youth

47 Electronic Tutors

48 Cheating on the Campus: Who's Really

to Blame?

UNlT SEVENTEEN

49 Cars: On a Road to Nowhere

50 Orwell Got It Wrong

51 Digital Delivery

UNlT ElGHTEEN

52 Nonverbal Communication

53 In Other Words

54 The Truth about Lying

UNlT NlNETEEN

55 Will Cloning End Human Evolution?

56 Man' s Brief Reign in the Evolutionary

Spotlight

57 Aping Language

UNlTTWENTY

58 Futurist Lessons from Thomas Jefferson

59 The Future of Money

60 Leadership for the Next Century

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