大学英语阅读进阶 第5卷PDF电子书下载

Unit 1 After a Vicious Attack 1

Part One Timed Reading 2

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 4

Text 1 In Stopping to Save Woman, Rescuers Saved Themselves(1) 4

Text 2 In Stopping to Save Woman, Rescuers Saved Themselves(2) 7

Text 3 In Stopping to Save Woman, Rescuers Saved Themselves(3) 10

Unit 2 Cloing-Pandora's Box? 14

Part One Timed Reading 15

Text 1 Human Cloning- Is That Possible? (1) 17

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 17

Text 2 Human Cloning- Is That Possible? (2) 21

Text 3 The First Cloned Human Embryo 24

Unit 3 Conflicts in Our Modern Civilization 27

Part One Timed Reading 28

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 30

Text 1 The Next Pattern of Conflict 30

Text 2 The Nature of Civilizations 33

Text 3 Rethinking Segregation Beyond Black and White 36

Unit 4 The Mind and the Body 40

Part One Timed Reading 41

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 43

Text 1 Secret Power of Pets 43

Text 2 More Than Just a Smell 47

Text 3 Memory and Context of Learning 50

Test Yourself (1) 54

Unit 5 Economy 63

Part One Timed Reading 64

Text 1 Looking Back at the Crash of 1929: Then, as Now, a New Era 65

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 65

Text 2 Through the Wringer 68

Text 3 A Dangerous Addiction 71

Unit 6 Gene Family- a Pacemaker in Genetic Domain 74

Part One Timed Reading 75

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 77

Text 1 Columbia's First Gene Therapy Trial 77

Text 2 New Gene Family for Pacemaker Activity 80

Text 3 Transgenic Mice 84

Unit 7 Speeches of Famous Persons 87

Part One Timed Reading 88

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 89

Text 1 I Have a Dream 89

Text 2 Speech of Gore (1) 92

Text 3 Speech of Gore (2) 94

Unit 8 Early Education 98

Part One Timed Reading 99

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 101

Text 1 Take Back the Class, One Row at a Time 101

Text 2 Technology vs. Textbooks 104

Text 3 Reading Must Be Learned Early 107

Test Yourself (2) 111

Unit 9 Our Mood, Psychology and Health 119

Part One Timed Reading 120

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 121

Text 1 Hunting the Cause of Winter Depression 121

Text 2 I Think I Can Be Healthy 125

Text 3 Spirituality Prevents Depression in Old Age 129

Unit 10 Water 133

Part One Timed Reading 134

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 136

Text 1 Possible Water Shortage 136

Text 2 The Importance of Water for Life 139

Text 3 The Trade in Animals 142

Unit 11 Our Social Lives 146

Part One Timed Reading 147

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 148

Text 1 The Great Changes in People's Lives 148

Text 2 Challenges for Today's Parents 151

Text 3 Who Is Crazy? 154

Unit 12 Our Global Ecology 157

Part One Timed Reading 158

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 160

Text 1 Built Environemnt in Industrial Ecology 160

Text 2 Ecological Risk Assessment 163

Text 3 Endangered Landscape 166

Test Yourself (3) 170

Key 179

Glossary 192