研究生英语阅读教程 基础级PDF电子书下载

CONTENTS 1

Unit One Efficient Reading 1

Lesson 1 Developing Your Reading Efficiency 2

READING SELECTION A:World English:A Blessing or a Curse? 3

READING SELECTION B:Jumble of Conflicting Language Taboos 13

Lesson 2 Developing Reading Flexibility 19

READING SELECTION A:The New School Choice 20

READING SELECTION B:We're Raising Children,Not Flowers 29

Lesson 3 Reading Rate 34

READING SELECTION A:Whupping Fat Albert 34

READING SELECTION B:Paging Dr.Carson 43

Unit Two Active Reading 49

Lesson 4 What Is Active Reading? 50

READING SELECTION A:A Whole Nation and a People 51

READING SELECTION B:The Ideal of Service 62

Lesson 5 Prereading 67

READING SELECTION A:The Functions and Effects of Music 68

READING SELECTION B:Whose Lead I Should Follow? 78

Lesson 6 Connections 82

READING SELECTION A:The Weird World of Tobacco 83

READING SELECTION B:Drunk Driver's Ed 93

Unit Three Techniques for Remembering What You Read 97

Lesson 7 Improving Your Concentration 98

READING SELECTION A:The Civil War:Repressible or Irrepressible? 99

READING SELECTION B:Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrast 110

Lesson 8 Increasing Your Attention Span 117

READING SELECTION A:Science and Technology 118

READING SELECTION B:It's a No-Brainer 128

Lesson 9 Remembering What You Read 133

READING SELECTION A:Death:It's What Ails You 135

READING SELECTION B:Success 143

Unit Four Techniques for Efficient Reading 149

Lesson 10 Skimming:Reading for Main Ideas 150

READING SELECTION A:American Values at the Crossroads 153

READING SELECTION B:Sports and American Values 162

Lesson 11 Scanning:Rapidly Locating Information 166

READING SELECTION A:A Case for Male Dishwashing 170

READING SELECTION B:My Wife Belongs in the House 180

Lesson 12 Techniques for Reading Faster 186

READING SELECTION A:Does Economic Growth Improve Human Morale? 188

READING SELECTION B:How to Pursue Happiness 197

Unit Five Developing Your Word Power 201

Lesson 13 Expanding Your Vocabulary(1) 202

READING SELECTION A:Laws of Lasting Love 204

READING SELECTION B:Why We Love Who We Love 212

Lesson 14 Expanding Your Vocabulary(2) 217

READING SELECTION A:Why Smaller Refrigerators Can Preserve the Human Race 218

READING SELECTION B:Calculating Machine 227

Lesson 15 Aids to Vocabulary Development 232

READING SELECTION A:True Height 235

READING SELECTION B:Harry Potter 243

READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅰ 248

READING COMPREHENSION TEST Ⅱ 256