新大学英语阅读教程 2 英文版PDF电子书下载

CHAPTER 1 The Global Melting Pot 1

ACADEMIC FOCUS:SOCIOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIESReading Assignment 1:Buicks,Starbucks and Fried Chicken:Still China? 2

Reading Assignment 2:The Muslim World of Colas 22

Reading Assignment 3:The Roots of Old and New World Foods 33

CHAPTER 2 What Makes You You? 45

ACADEMIC FOCUS:GENETICS AND PSYCHOLOGYReading Assignment 1:The Nature versus Nurture Debate 46

Reading Assignment 2:The Wild Boy of Aveyron 60

Reading Assignment 3:Linking Psychology and Genetics 69

CHAPTER 3 To Sleep,To Dream 80

ACADEMIC FOCUS:PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGYReading Assignment 1:While You Are Sleeping 81

Reading Assignment 2:What Is Dreaming 96

Reading Assignment 3:The ABC's of Dreams 107

CHAPTER 4 Women Speak Out 123

ACADEMIC FOCUS:LITERATURE AND WOMEN'S STUDIESReading Assignment 1:Lessons for Women 124

Reading Assignment 2:At Last Free 139

Reading Assignment 3:A Domestic Dilemma 144

CHAPTER 5 Cracking the Ice Age 178

ACADEMIC FOCUS:GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGYReading Assignment 1:The Story behind the Ice Age 179

Reading Assignment 2:The Iceman Cometh 191

Reading Assignment 3:Kill,Chill,or Ill? What Happened to Ice Age Mammals 201

CHAPTER 6 Up from Slavery 218

ACADEMIC FOCUS:HISTORYReading Assignment1:Slavery in America 220

Reading Assignment 2:A Slave's Journey in Sudan 231

Reading Assignment 3:From Restavec:From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American 238

Keys 254