当代研究生英语阅读教程 1

Unit 1 Career Planning 1

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 1

Career Planning 1

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 5

Passage 1 Portfolio Career 5

Passage 2 What Employers Will Want from You? 8

Passage 3 Career Fit 10

Unit 2 Geography 13

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 13

Geography of the Sea 13

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 17

Passage 1 Mediterranean Sea 17

Passage 2 Unique Geography of Australia 20

Passage 3 Grand Canyon 22

Unit 3 Health 24

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 24

The"Milieu Interieur"(The Environment Within) 24

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 27

Passage 1 Three Kinds of Fatigue 27

Passage 2 Better to Be Fat and Fit than Skinny and Unfit 30

Passage 3 Promotion of Health and Longevity 33

Unit 4 Biology 36

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 36

Darwin and the Theory of Evolution 36

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 40

Passage 1 The Race to Discover the Genetic Code 40

Passage 2 The Biodiversity of the Rainforest 43

Passage 3 Man and Apes:Are We Really So Different? 45

Unit 5 Travelogue 47

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 47

Marco Polo and His Travels 47

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 51

Passage 1 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift 51

Passage 2 American Notes by Charles Dickens 54

Passage 3 Travels with Charley:In Search of America by John Steinbeck 57

Unit 6 Energy 59

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 59

The Permanent Energy Crisis 59

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 63

Passage 1 The Master of Wind 63

Passage 2 Energy Efficiency 66

Passage 3 Hybrid Fiction 68

Unit 7 Leisure Reading(Ⅰ) 71

Passage 1 What Do Women Really Want? 71

Passage 2 Men Are like Rubber Bands 73

Passage 3 Women Are like Waves 75

Passage 4 After Twenty Years 78

Unit 8 Art 83

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 83

How Art Functions 83

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 86

Passage 1 The Impressionists 86

Passage 2 Leonardo's Mona Lisa 89

Passage 3 Keys to Successful Art 92

Unit 9 Environment 94

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 94

Abiotic and Biotic Factors in Environment 94

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 98

Passage 1 Can We Save the World by 2015? 98

Passage 2 Environmental Waste Solutions for an Ever-changing World 101

Passage 3 Creating a Cleaning Environment 104

Unit 10 International Trade 107

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 107

Free Trade 107

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 111

Passage 1 Merchants to Multinationals:British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 111

Passage 2 Protectionism(Part Ⅰ) 115

Passage 3 Protectionism(Part Ⅱ) 117

Unit 11 Animals 120

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 120

Animal Rights—How We Treat Animals Reflects Who We Are 120

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 124

Passage 1 Smart,Curious,Ticklish.Rats? 124

Passage 2 Several Interesting Traits of Birds 127

Passage 3 A Big Win for Polar Bears? 129

Unit 12 Marriage 133

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 133

A Review of Coontz's Marriage,a History 133

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 136

Passage 1 On Happiness in Marriage 136

Passage 2 Marital Violence 139

Passage 3 American Society Favors Marriage 142

Unit 13 Industry and Agriculture 144

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 144

American Industry and War 144

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 148

Passage 1 Green Revolution 148

Passage 2 Financial Crisis Adds to Pressure on Auto Industry 151

Passage 3 Organic Farming 154

Unit 14 Leisure Reading(Ⅱ) 157

Passage 1 I Want a Wife 157

Passage 2 Chaplin and Modern Times 159

Passage 3 How Obama Happened:The Real Story 163

Passage 4 An Excerpt from Gone with the Wind 166

Unit 15 Resources 171

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 171

Water Crisis 171

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 175

Passage 1 Risky Race for Minerals 175

Passage 2 Palm Oil Biodiesel 178

Passage 3 The Oceans—Man's Last Resource 180

Unit 16 Finance 183

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 183

Financial Tsunami 183

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 187

Passage 1 Warren Buffett 187

Passage 2 Stock Market 191

Passage 3 Barings Bank Collapses 194

Unit 17 Anthropology 197

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 197

An Overview of Anthropology 197

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 202

Passage 1 Human Origins 202

Passage 2 Civilization's Rise and Descent 205

Passage 3 Finding Lucy and Other Fossil Treasures 207

Unit 18 Sociology 211

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 211

Sociology 211

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 216

Passage 1 Dirty Work 216

Passage 2 The Tragedy of Old Age in America 219

Passage 3 Insights into Gender Differences 222

Unit 19 Speech 225

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 225

Roman Oratory 225

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 229

Passage 1 Myths About Public Speaking 229

Passage 2 Winston Churchill's Speech:Blood,Toil,Tears and Sweat 232

Passage 3 Albert Einstein's Speech:Peace in the Atomic Era 234

Unit 20 Literature 237

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 237

Shakespeare's Plays 237

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 241

Passage 1 Romanticism in Literature 241

Passage 2 The Lost Generation 244

Passage 3 Detective Fiction 247

Keys 250

References 265