《21世纪大学英语》阅读精选 第2册PDF电子书下载

Unit One Stories About Celebrities 1

Reading1 Prologue(From Celine Dion: My Story, My Dream) 2

Reading2 It s the Books That Changed Me 8

Reading3 Prince William: To Be the King of Hollywood Action Movies? 12

Unit TWO languages, Silent and Vocal 16

Reading1 Eye Language 17

Reading2 The Power of Words 23

Reading3 Where Do You Stand? 28

Unit Three Aspects of American Culture 31

Reading1 The Melting Pot and the Salad Bowl 32

Reading2 Hispanic, USA: The Conveyor-Belt Ladies 38

Reading3 The American Attitude Toward Time 45

Unit Four Lifestyles 48

Reading1 Fashions 49

Reading2 Short Skirts of the Twenties and Sixties 55

Reading3 Cell, Phones, E-mail and Voice Mail 60

Unit Five Work and Workholics 65

Reading1 Manual Labor and the Spirit of Do-It-Yourself 66

Reading2 Workaholism 71

Reading3 The Company Man 75

Unit Six Scientists and Inventors 81

Reading1 Hawking Gets Personal 82

Reading2 My Experience with ALS 88

Reading3 Thank you, My.Chips 93

Unit Seven Learning from Failures 98

Reading1 Famous Faiures 99

Reading2 The Day I Flunked Out of Law School 105

Reading3 Water Over the Dam 109

Unit Eight Modern Man s Life 115

Reading1 Stress and Technology 116

Reading2 Overload: More Time Is less Time 122

Reading3 Out of Step 127

Unit Nine The Beauty of Science 135

Reading1 Dancing to the Music of Physics 136

Reading2 The World of Virtual Reality 142

Reading3 Practice Makes Perfect 149

Unit Ten What is Art? 154

Reading1 The Arts Are Essential 155

Reading2 What Can We Learn from Art? 161

Reading3 Frida Kahlo: Mexico s Best-Known Woman Painter 166

Keys to Exercises 171