大学英语快速阅读3 第4版PDF电子书下载

Unit 1 1

Passage 1 Japanese and American Workers:Two Casts ofMind 1

Passage 2 The English Character 7

Passage 3 I'm Sorry.I Won't Apologize 11

Passage 4 Chinese,English Speakers Vary at Math 15

Unit 2 17

Passage 1 The Western:The Legend and the Cardboard Hero 17

Passage 2 Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen 23

Passage 3 Gold Is the Devil 27

Passage 4 Learning to Save Can Be Challenging 31

Unit 3 33

Passage 1 AMessage to Garcia 33

Passage 2 Thin Is"In,"Fat Is"Out" 39

Passage 3 Confessions of a Sports Mom 43

Passage 4 One Number Doesn't Fit All 47

Unit 4 49

Passage 1 Happy People 49

Passage 2 Biological Parents and Adoptive Parents 55

Passage 3 Salty Coffee 59

Passage 4 Dad Beats up Mum.What Can a Child Do? 63

Unit 5 65

Passage 1 The Myth of the Latin Woman:I Just Met a Girl Named Maria 65

Passage 2 The First American 71

Passage 3 The Rise of Asian Women 75

Passage 4 My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish 79

Unit 6 81

Passage 1 Take This Fish and Look at It 81

Passage 2 STM 87

Passage 3 Don't Fear Failure 91

Passage 4 If at First You Don't Succeed Enough 95

Unit 7 97

Passage 1 The Greenland Viking Mystery 97

Passage 2 The Biological Clock 103

Passage 3 Have You Ever Seen a Flying Saucer? 107

Passage 4 Showing Emotion Is a No-Can-Do among Men 111

Unit 8 113

Passage 1 Whatever's Happened to the Weather? 113

Passage 2 A Practical Mind 119

Passage 3 Energy Sense Makes Future Sense 123

Passage 4 Japan Tries to Cut Down on Plastic Bags 127

Key to Comprehension Exercises 129