《快速阅读 第3册》PDF下载

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  • 作  者:束定芳主编
  • 出 版 社:上海:上海外语教育出版社
  • 出版年份:2008
  • ISBN:7544602982
  • 页数:133 页
图书介绍:本书是供高校基础阶段英语教学使用的阅读教材。

Unit One Arts 1

Text 1 Musical Film 2

Text 2 Spotlight on Florence 5

Text 3 How Jazz Began 8

Text 4 The British Museum 11

Text 5 Chinese Painting 14

Unit Two The Economy 17

Text 1 Burn Your House, Boost the Economy 18

Text 2 Public Release of $2 Bills at Face Value Continues 21

Text 3 Risky Business 24

Text 4 Shanghai: Real Estate Market Worries 26

Text 5 Swiss Banking Secrecy 29

Unit Three Genetic Engineering 33

Text 1 What Are Genetically Modified (GM) Foods? 34

Text 2 Feeding the World — Facts versus Fiction 36

Text 3 GE Agriculture and Genetic Pollution 39

Text 4 What Are the Risks of Cloning? 41

Text 5 Post-Genome Shopper 44

Unit Four Sleep and Dreams 47

Text 1 Why Do We Dream? 48

Text 2 Sleep Behavior 50

Text 3 What Do Our Dreams Mean? 53

Text 4 Lack of Sleep Affects Kids’ Alertness 56

Text 5 A Good Night’s Sleep 59

Unit Five Outer Space 63

Text 1 The Sun’s Atmosphere 64

Text 2 What Are Falling Stars? 66

Text 3 Unmasking the Face of Mars 69

Text 4 Mourn for Challenger 72

Text 5 The First Traveller in Space 75

Unit Six War and Peace 77

Text 1 The Maginot Line 78

Text 2 Lifesaver Hero: Florence Nightingale 81

Text 3 The Blitz 84

Text 4 Gun Politics in the United States 87

Text 5 Mahatma Gandhi 91

Unit Seven The Internet and Computers 95

Text 1 The Origins and History of Computer Viruses 96

Text 2 Personal Communication in the Age of the Internet 99

Text 3 Chat Room Briton Saves US Family from Poisoning 102

Text 4 What Is Cyberlove? 105

Text 5 Artificial Intelligence in the Game of Go 108

Unit Eight Politics 111

Text 1 Why the European Union? 112

Text 2 Hiroshima: Harty Truman’s Diaty and Papers 115

Text 3 Benjamin Franklin 118

Text 4 The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall 121

Text 5 Roman Government 124

Answers 127