当代研究生英语阅读教程 2

Unit 1 Food and Diet 1

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 1

Food:Past and Present 1

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 5

Passage 1 A New Diet Equation 5

Passage 2 Diet,Nutrition and Healthy Living 9

Passage 3 Cancer and Diet 11

Unit 2 Archaeology 15

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 15

Excavating an Ancient Egyptian Tomb 15

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 19

Passage 1 Troy Uncovered 19

Passage 2 Pompeii:Buried in Ages 22

Passage 3 Machu Picchu Archaeological Sites 25

Unit 3 Medicine 28

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 28

A Brief History of Medicine 28

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 32

Passage 1 The Controversy over Human Cloning 32

Passage 2 Natural Medicine—The Way Home 36

Passage 3 How to Build a Body Part 38

Unit 4 Space 42

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 42

When Galaxies Collide 42

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 46

Passage 1 Transient Lunar Phenomena 46

Passage 2 Water,Flash Floods and New Possibilities for Life on Mars 49

Passage 3 The Salyut Experience 52

Unit 5 History 55

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 55

Rome:From Republic to Empire 55

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 59

Passage 1 Anglo-Saxon England 59

Passage 2 The Enlightenment 62

Passage 3 Victorian Era 64

Unit 6 Biography 67

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 67

An American Storyteller:Ernest Hemingway 67

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 71

Passage 1 Johannes Kepler 71

Passage 2 Napoleon—Downfall and Legend 75

Passage 3 Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meck 77

Unit 7 Leisure Reading(Ⅲ) 81

Passage 1 Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder 81

Passage 2 The Trial of O.J.Simpson 83

Passage 3 That Lean and Hungry Look 87

Passage 4 An Excerpt from Jane Eyre 89

Unit 8 Economics 94

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 94

What Is Economics? 94

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 98

Passage 1 Adam Smith's The Wealth ofNations 98

Passage 2 Karl Marx's Economic Conceptions 101

Passage 3 John Maynard Keynes 104

Unit 9 Materials Sclence 108

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 108

A Brief History of Materials 108

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 112

Passage 1 The Age of Superstuff 112

Passage 2 Superconductor Search:a Race and an Obsession 115

Passage 3 The Future of Nanomaterials 118

Unit 10 Phllosophy 121

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 121

What Is Philosophy? 121

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 126

Passage 1 Socratic Method 126

Passage 2 Rene Descartes'Dualism and Rationalism 129

Passage 3 Brief Introduction to Kant 131

Unit 11 Law 134

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 134

An Introduction to Law 134

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 138

Passage 1 Origins of Common Law 138

Passage 2 The American Jury System:Standing in the Way of Justice? 142

Passage 3 Nuremberg Trials 145

Unit 12 Education 148

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 148

The University and Society 148

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 153

Passage 1 Set Universities Free 153

Passage 2 Requirements for Completion in U.S.Graduate Schools 156

Passage 3 Bertrand Russell on Education 159

Unit 13 Sports 163

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 163

Social Aggregates and Cultural Influences in the Rise of Sport 163

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 168

Passage 1 Good Spots 168

Passage 2 Spectator Spots Reflect America's Melting Pot 171

Passage 3 How David Stern and Michael Jordan May Have Destroyed the NBA 173

Unit 14 Leisure Reading(Ⅳ) 177

Passage 1 King Edward Ⅷ Abdicated for Love 177

Passage 2 Love Is a Fallacy(Part Ⅰ) 181

Passage 3 Love Is a Fallacy(Part Ⅱ) 187

Passage 4 An Excerpt from Death in the Afternoon 191

Unit 15 Entertainment 195

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 195

The Beatles 195

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 199

Passage 1 Is the Web the Future of Entertainment? 199

Passage 2 A History of Oscar's Ups and Downs 202

Passage 3 Soap Opera 205

Unit 16 Book Review 208

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 208

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 208

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 212

Passage 1 Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 212

Passage 2 Vanity Fair by William Thackeray 215

Passage 3 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 217

Unit 17 Computer and Internet 221

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 221

Computer Science 221

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 224

Passage 1 Life on the Net 224

Passage 2 Alienation and the Internet 227

Passage 3 Crime in Cyberspace 230

Unit 18 Architecture 233

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 233

European Architecture:History and Styles 233

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 237

Passage 1 The Castles of Europe 237

Passage 2 Islamic Architecture 240

Passage 3 Modern Architecture:Reaching for the Sky 243

Unit 19 Management 246

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 246

Management Strategies in Competing with Japan 246

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 251

Passage 1 Chaos Theory of Management 251

Passage 2 Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory 254

Passage 3 Scenario Planning 258

Unit 20 Psychology 261

Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning) 261

Freudian Psychology and Psychoanalysis 261

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) 265

Passage 1 Dreams:Night School 265

Passage 2 Narcissistic Personality Disorder 268

Passage 3 The New Word on Gossip 271

Keys 274

References 289