新世纪大学英语系列教材 读写教程 第2册

Unit One 1

Part A：Reading Skills—Detecting Topic Sentences 1

Reading Selection One：What is REM Sleep？ 4

Reading Selection Two：Remembering and Forgetting 8

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 12

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 18

Introduction to Narrative Writing： 18

Part D：From Reading to Writing 21

Learning by Doing 21

Unit Two 24

Part A：Reading Skills—Working with Enumeration 24

Reading Selection One：The Long and Short of It 27

Reading Selection Two：How Computers Are Changing Our World 32

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 37

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 43

Narrowing a Subject to Shape a Thesis 43

Part D：From Reading to Writing 45

Why do We Wear Clothes？ 45

Unit Three 48

Part A：Reading Skills—Reading Passages of Comparison and Contrast 48

Reading Selection One：Johnny Reb and Billy Yank 53

Reading Selection Two：Open Education 57

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 62

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 67

Topic Sentences and Supporting Sentences 67

Part D：From Reading to Writing 70

Alfred Nobel—A Man of Contrasts 70

Unit Four 73

Part A：Reading Skills—Tracing Cause and Effect 73

Reading Selection One：Ability to Learn 77

Reading Selection Two：Energy and Building Design 80

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 86

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 92

Sentence Combination 92

Part D：From Reading to Writing 97

Historic Drop in Crime 97

Unit Five 100

Part A：Reading Skills—Exemplification 100

Reading Selection One：Museums in the Modern World 104

Reading Selection Two：Soundless Communication 110

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 115

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 121

Sentence Variety（Ⅰ）： 121

Part D：From Reading to Writing 123

CEO Quits to Pursue UFOs 124

Unit Six 127

Part A：Reading Skills—Understanding Definitions and Classifications 127

Reading Selection One：Why do We Do Anything？ 131

Reading Selection Two：Historical Time and Stages of Life 135

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 141

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 146

Sentence Variety（Ⅱ）： 146

Part D：From Reading to Writing 150

Newspapers in Britain 151

Unit Seven 154

Part A：Reading Skills—Reading Movie Scripts and Plays 154

Reading Selection One：Titanic 157

Reading Selection Two：A Question of Ethics 162

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 171

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 176

Expletive Constructions：“There be”and“it be”： 176

Part D：From Reading to Writing 178

Patients Needed 178

Unit Eight 181

Part A：Reading Skills—Recognizing Word Chains and Omission 181

Reading Selection One：The Big Wind 184

Reading Selection Two：Someone May Be Watching You 189

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 194

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 200

Sentence Expansion 201

Part D：From Reading to Writing 203

Information Gap 204

Unit Nine 206

Part A：Reading Skills—Working with Argumentative Writings（Ⅰ） 206

Reading Selection One：To Smoke or Not to Smoke？ 209

Reading Selection Two：The Space Program：Is It Worth It？ 213

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 219

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 223

Coherence（Ⅰ）： 223

Part D：From Reading to Writing 227

A Discussion 227

Unit Ten 231

Part A：Reading Skills—Working with Argumentative Writings（Ⅱ） 231

Reading Selection One：Should Women Return to Their Kitchen？ 235

Reading Selection Two：Flats versus Houses 239

Part B：Vocabulary Skills 244

Part C：Guided Writing and Translation 248

Coherence（Ⅱ）： 248

Part D：From Readingto Writing 252

“Books，Plays and Films Should Be Censored” 253