英语阅读 2 2005年版PDF电子书下载

Unit 1　 Health 　　　　　　　 1

Reading Skills　 Looking for the Topic Sentence 　　　　 1

Text 1 Do We Need Extra Vitamins? 3

Text 2 Women and Tobacco 10

Text 3 Are These the Best Years of Your Life? 21

Unit 2 Environment 34

Reading Skills Scanning 34

Text 4 Our Disappearing Wildlife 36

Text 5 Pollution is a Dirty Word 43

Text 6 Keeping Food on the Table 52

Unit 3 Psychology 64

Reading Skills Reading for Central and Additional Information 64

Text 7 How to be Happy 65

Text 8 Never be Nervous Again 71

Text 9 Hey,I'm the Customer 81

Reading Skills Reading Introductory Phrases and Clauses 94

Unit 4 Sports and Body Building 94

Text 10 How to Camp out 96

Text 11 Body Image 103

Text 12 Baseball in America 115

Unit 5 Space 129

Reading Skills Reading for Implications 129

Text 13 Life on the Other Planets? 131

Text 14 Walking in Space 137

Text 15 Quake Research on Solid Ground 148

Unit 6 Birds and Animals 164

Reading Skills Reading Groups of Words at Each Glance 164

Text 16 Animal Education 166

Text 17 How Homing Pigeons Find Home 173

Text 18 An African Pet 183

Unit 7 Famous People 196

Reading Skills Using Context Clues to Determine the Meaning of Words 196

Text 19 Bill Clinton's First Inaugural Address 198

Text 20 Kofi Annan's Speech at the United Nations General Assembly 208

Text 21 Me,Stephen William Hawking 221

Unit 8 Economics and Trades 235

Reading Skills Getting Main Ideas—Skimming and Scanning 235

Text 22 Bargains 237

Text 23 The Consumer 243

Text 24 More People and More Produces 256

Unit 9 Computers and Information Age 269

Reading Skills Facts or Opinions 269

Text 25 What are Computers? 271

Text 26 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life 278

Text 27 The Information Age Has Improved Everyday Life 290

Unit 10 Social Problems 304

Reading Skills Reading about Processes 304

Text 28 Juvenile Crime—Outlook for California 305

Text 29 Decent Jobs:Social Inclusion and Social Protection 317

Text 30 Decent Jobs:Social Inclusion and Social Protection 328

Reading Skills Distinguishing Facts from Opinions 340

Unit 11 Education 340

Text 31 Choosing Not to Go to College 342

Text 32 The Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Child 350

Text 33 Computers Cannot Teach Children Basic Skills 361

Unit 12 Crime 374

Reading Skills Identifying and Understanding Signal Words 374

Text 34 Fighting the War against Computer Crime 376

Text 35 Juvenile Crime 385

Text 36 Juvenile Crime 397

后记 411

Appendix 1 413

Key to the Exercises 413

Appendix 2 427

英语阅读（二）自学考试大纲 427

Appendix 3 435

英语阅读（二）样卷 435

后记 455