普通高等教育十一五國家級規(guī)劃教材

前言

　　在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)高速發(fā)展的信息時代，我們需要閱讀的英語資料浩如煙海，僅靠延長閱讀時間來獲取知識和信息的辦法顯然已不能適應時代發(fā)展的要求。因此，增加大學英語快速閱讀教學，培養(yǎng)和訓練學生的快速閱讀能力，就成為大學英語教學中不容忽視的一項重要內容?！　「鶕?jù)2007年國家教育部高教司頒布的《大學英語課程教學要求》（以下簡稱《課程要求》），大學英語的教學目標是培養(yǎng)學生的英語綜合應用能力。而閱讀作為一項基本技能，始終是英語綜合能力訓練中的一個重要環(huán)節(jié)。從一定意義上講，閱讀速度又是衡量閱讀能力的重要指標之一。《課程要求》提出了三個層次的英語教學要求，其中的“一般要求”和“較高要求”均對快速閱讀能力作了詳細說明?？焖匍喿x的一般要求是能夠應對篇幅較長、難度略低的材料，閱讀速度應達到每分鐘100詞，并能就閱讀材料進行略讀（skimming）和尋讀（scanning）；而較高要求是要能夠應對篇幅較長、難度適中的材料，并且閱讀速度達到每分鐘120詞。而且兩個要求均提出學生通過閱讀能夠掌握中心大意，理解主要事實和有關細節(jié)。由此可見，深化快速閱讀教學，進一步提高閱讀能力，仍是培養(yǎng)和提高大學生語言運用能力的關鍵所在?！　”鞠盗薪滩氖且浴洞髮W英語課程教學要求》為準則，在參考國內外多種英語快速閱讀教材的基礎上，根據(jù)編者多年從事大學英語快速閱讀教學的經(jīng)驗，以及我國非英語專業(yè)本科生目前整體英語水平和實際英語能力編寫而成。　　……

內容概要

　　《21世紀大學新英語系列：21世紀大學新英語快速閱讀4》共分六冊，旨在幫助學生進行系統(tǒng)的、有針對性的快速閱讀訓練，掌握基本閱讀技能，培養(yǎng)良好閱讀習慣，提高閱讀效率。選材方面，我們力求所選文章兼?zhèn)鋾r代性、信息性、趣味性以及可讀性，語言難度適中，其體裁和題材體現(xiàn)多樣性，話題涵蓋中西文化、教育、生活、媒介、歷史、科技、哲學、文學等。練習方面，我們主要以現(xiàn)行大學英語四六級考試中快速閱讀題型為主，又適當增加其他形式的題型：既有選擇填空、對錯判斷和填空等基本題型，又有匹配、簡短回答、摘要以及翻譯等練習。目的是使學生在學習完本套教材后提高快速閱讀部份的應試能力，同時又增強他們的信息搜索能力。每冊書后附有本冊練習的參考答案供師生參考?！　　?1世紀大學新英語系列：21世紀大學新英語快速閱讀4》共分八個單元，每個單元由Passage A、Passage B和Passage C三篇文章組成。Passage A和Passage B供課堂使用，Passage C供學生課外閱讀。

書籍目錄

Unit 1 COLLEGE EDUCATIONPassage 1 Universities Branch OutPassage 2 What Good Is a College Education Anyway?Passage 3 Colleges Taking Another Look at Value ofMerit-based AidUnit 2 SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITIONPassage 1 Bermuda Triangle: Behind the IntriguePassage 2 Are You Superstitious?Passage 3 What Is Science? What Is Pseudoscience?Unit 3 OLD AND YOUNGPassage 1 The New Old and the Conserva-teenPassage 2 The Secrets of Long Life Revealed?Passage 3 Reverse AgeismUnit 4 SPORTS AND HEALTHPassage 1 The Truth about Sports and Weight LossPassage 2 Health Benefits of ExercisePassage 3 The Role of Exercise in My LifeUnit 5 HAPPINESSPassage 1 How to Find Happiness in a Nine to Five JobPassage 2 Finding Happiness: How to Appreciate the Little Things in Life - Small Ways to Find Joy in the Everyday ExperiencePassage 3 Three Treasure Boxes - The Pursuit of HappinessUnit 6 ECOLOGYPassage 1 We Can't Wish Away Climate ChangePassage 2 Going Green Without Going BrokePassage 3 Overpopulation Is the Main Threat to the PlanetUnit 7 TECHNOLOGY AND PROGRESSPassage 1 Does Technology Improve Quality ofOur Lives?Passage 2 Technology and Our Dependence upon ItPassage 3 Caught in the Web - Undesirable Effect oflnternet TechnologyUnit 8 HUMANITY AND NATUREPassage 1 A Grassroots RemedyPassage 2 The Nature of Human Body - Chinese Explanation of Body ClockPassage 3 An Unlikely Way to Save a Species: Serve It for DinnerAppendixKeys and Answers

章節(jié)摘錄

　　1.As never before in their long story， universities have become instruments of national competition as well as insttuments of peace. They are the place of the scientific discoveries that move economies forward， and the primary means of educating the talent requited to obtain and maintain competitive advantages. But at the same time， the opening of national borders to the flow of goods， services， information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration， mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.　　2.In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy， univetsities have become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values， sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers， offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative （合作的） reseatch programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.　　3.Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movement across borders. Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.0 percent， from 800，000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004. Most travel from one developed nation to another， but the flow from developing to developed countries is growing rapidly. The reverse flow， from developed to developmg countries， is on the rise， too. Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctotal degrees awarded in the United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom And the number crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well， to 8 percent of the undergraduates at America's best institutions and 10 percent of all undergraduates in the U.K. In the United States， 20 percent of the newly hired professors in saence and engineering are foreign-born， and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education abroad.　　4.Universities are also encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate years in another country. In Europe， more than 140，000 students participate in the Erasmus program each year， taking courses for credit in one of 2，000 partiapating institutions across the continent. And in the United States， institutions are helping place students in summer internships（實習） abroad to prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harvard have led the way， offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunity and providing the finanaal resources to make it possible.　　5.Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves soutcing portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human disease at Shanghai's Fudan University， in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduate students workingin a 4，300-square-meter laboratory facility. Yale faculty， postdoctots and graduate students visit regularly and attend videoconference seminars with scientists from both campuses. The arrangement benefits both countries， Xu's Yale lab is more productive， thanks to the lower costs of conducting research in China， and Chinese graduate students， postdoctors and faculty get on-the-job training from a wodd-class scientist and his U.S. team.　　……

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