大学英语阅读进阶 第3卷

Unit 1 Education 1

Part One Timed Reading 2

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 3

Text 1 Higher Education 3

Text 2 Children with High Intelligence 6

Text 3 Over Test 9

Unit 2 Humanity 12

Part One Timed Reading 13

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 15

Text 1 For Conversation, Press 1 15

Text 2 Tech teacher 18

Text 3 Choosing to Be Kind 21

Unit 3 Culture 25

Part One Timed Reading 26

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 27

Text 1 Indian Religious Life 27

Text 2 Street Justice 30

Text 3 Opera 32

Unit 4 Computer and Internet 35

Part One Timed Reading 36

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 37

Text 1 English Lessons on Net 37

Text 2 PCs Offer Consumers Nothing New 40

Text 3 Caught in the Web of the Internet 42

Test Yourself (1) 45

Unit 5 Technology 55

Part One Timed Reading 56

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 58

Text 1 Europe's Biotech Industry Still Losing to US 58

Text 2 Cloning Draws Fierce Criticism 61

Text 3 Nanotechnology Puts on Uniform 63

Unit 6 Women 66

Part One Timed Reading 67

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 69

Text 1 British Professional Women 69

Text 2 That "Other Woman" in My Life 72

Text 3 Behind the Geisha's Painted Smile 74

Unit 7 Biography 78

Part One Timed Reading 79

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 81

Text 1 Samaranch, the Olympic Patriarch 81

Text 2 Thomas Jefferson: America's Leonardo da Vinci 84

Text 3 Alexander Graham Bell 86

Unit 8 Business and Economy 89

Part One Timed Reading 90

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 92

Text 1 The Way to Advertise 92

Text 2 The Future Marketplace on the Internet 95

Text 3 Unique Problems in International Trade 97

Test Yourself (2) 100

Unit 9 People and Environmnet 109

Part One Timed Reading 110

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 111

Text 1 Ecology and Economy 111

Text 2 Where the Rubber Hits the Road 114

Text 3 Oceans of Death 117

Unit 10 Science 121

Part One Timed Reading 122

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 124

Text 1 What Computer Can for the Future? 124

Text 2 The Biotech Century 127

Text 3 Cloning Has Popular Connotation That Is Impossible to Dislodge 130

Unit 11 Politics 134

Part One Timed Reading 135

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 136

Text 1 Three Palestinians Killed in Clashes in Gaza Strip 136

Text 2 Even This Prime Minister Cannot Perform Miracles 138

Text 3 UN Summit Sets War on Hunger 141

Unit 12 Travel 143

Part One Timed Reading 144

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 146

Text 1 In Case You Lose Your Luggage 146

Text 2 Tourism in New York After the Attack 148

Text 3 Travel by Air: Funny or Frightening? 151

Test Yourself (3) 154

Key 164

Glossary 183