大学英语阅读进阶 6PDF电子书下载

Unit 1 Globalisation 1

Part One Timed Reading 2

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 4

Text 1 Free Trade Fallacies 4

Text 2 Globalisation and Its Critics 6

Text 3 Good Old Invisible Hand 9

Unit 2 Sustainable Development 13

Part One Timed Reading 14

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 16

Text 1 The Great Race 16

Text 2 The Cost of Command-and-Control 18

Text 3 Enter the Market 21

Unit 3 Business Management 25

Part One Timed Reading 26

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 28

Text 1 Sam Walton and Wal-Mart 28

Text 2 Why Enron Went Bust 30

Text 3 GM Signs Deal for Daewoo Motor Parts 33

Unit 4 Economic Problems 37

Part One Timed Reading 38

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 40

Text 1 A Dismal Science Review 40

Text 2 Could This Be Rational Exuberance? 44

Text 3 A Bullish Technocrat in a China Shop 48

Test Yourself (1) 52

Unit 5 Science and Ethic 59

Part One Timed Reading 60

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 62

Text 1 Fox's Flapdoodle 62

Text 2 Of Headless Mice...and Men 65

Text 3 Paralyzed People Are Fooled by a Super Bowl Ad 69

Unit 6 Controversial Issues 73

Part One Timed Reading 74

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 76

Text 1 "Humane" Execution 76

Text 2 The Titanic Riddle 79

Text 3 Why Writers Attack Writers 83

Unit 7 Nurturing Child 87

Part One Timed Reading 88

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 89

Text 1 Fellow Nerds: Let's Celebrate Nerdiness! 89

Text 2 Sense of Self 92

Text 3 The Parent Trap 95

Unit 8 Your Health 99

Part One Timed Reading 100

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 102

Text 1 Get Some Sleep 102

Text 2 Licking the Habit 104

Text 3 Helping to Break Bad Habits 108

Test Yourself (2) 111

Unit 9 The New America 118

Part One Timed Reading 119

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 121

Text 1 Tomorrowland, Today 121

Text 2 To Live the Dream in the Silicon 123

Text 3 What's White, Anyway? 126

Unit 10 Innovation 130

Part One Timed Reading 131

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 133

Text 1 Who Cares about Tech? 133

Text 2 Innovation's New Math (1) 136

Text 3 Innovation's New Math (2) 139

Unit 11 Variables behind Facts 143

Part One Timed Reading 144

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 145

Text 1 The Ghost of Herbert Hoover 145

Text 2 You Have to Walk the Talk 148

Text 3 Inside the Mind of the Modern Investor 151

Unit 12 EU and Euro 155

Part One Timed Reading 156

Part Two Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development 158

Text 1 Why Monetary Union 158

Text 2 Unification and the United States 160

Text 3 A Dollar-Euro World 164

Test Yourself (3) 167

Key 174

Glossary 186