研究生英语泛读教程

本书中的课文是从近年来英美出版的30多种书报杂志、数百篇文章中精选的。课文反映世界范围内的热点问题及诸多领域中最新的科技成果和动态，知识性、趣味性强。题材丰富，体裁多样，内容涉及理工、社科、农林、财经及医药等方面，词汇覆盖面广。课文的平均长度为1300字左右，每篇课文末尾均注明该课文的字数，便于掌握和检测阅读速度。为方便自学，每课的生词注释约增加五成，修订版对原有的部分生词注释也作了修改，较难的生词还同时给出汉译，以适应研究生不同层次的需要。对课文中的重点、难点及有关的背景知识尽可能地用简明英语加以注释，或者给出英汉双解，个别给出汉译。课后的阅读理解练习旨在测试学生对课文的中心思想、主要内容及细节的理解，培养他们在语篇水平上理解文章的能力和掌握概括中心思想、猜词悟义、预见、推理和推论等阅读技能。书后附有词汇总表，每个词条包括拼写、音标、中文词义、词级。本书另附教师参考用书一本，内含对课文进一步的注释、阅读理解题答案和每课的参考译文。

CONTENTS Lesson One Life Skills Lesson Two Wanted: Shift Managers Lesson Three What Is Folk Art? Lesson Four Holiday on Ice: Arctic Rooms at 23� Lesson Five Chance or Probability Lesson Six Ordeal in a Frozen Wilderness Lesson Seven Endangered Species: Birds Lesson Eight Four Minutes that Get You Hired Lesson Nine All Creatures that on Earth Do Dwell Lesson Ten Help Your Man Lose Weight Lesson Eleven Mallaise: How to Know If You Have It Lesson Twelve On Reading Lesson Thirteen Why You Wear What You Wear Lesson Fourteen The Final Thrust Lesson Fifteen How to Deal with Teen (Dark) Agers Lesson Sixteen Relearning the Lessons of Grammar Lesson Seventeen Deforestation Lesson Eighteen The Urge to Conform Lesson Nineteen 'l'he Acid Rain Problem Lesson Twenty Travelers Debate Value of Business-Class Rooms Lesson Twenty-One The Poisoned Amazon Lesson Twenty-Two Challenger for Global Agricultural Research Lesson Twenty-Three Dan Quayle Was Right Lesson Twenty-Four Miniature Adults Lesson Twenty-Five A Cure Lesson Twenty-Six The Long Watch Lesson Twenty-Seven Thc Open Barn Door Lesson Twenty-Eight Sorting Out the Men of Letters Lesson Twenty-Nine The Next Wasteland Lesson Thirty First Nation in Cyberspace Lesson Thirty-One The Garbage Industry Lesson Thirty-Two Green Taxes Lesson Thirty-Three Poisoned by a Hail of Lead Lesson Thirty-Four Rural Rush Lesson Thirty-Five The Attraction of a Magnetic Beach Lesson Thirty-Six The Complexity Problem Lesson Thirty-Seven Reinventing the Robot Lesson Thirty-Eight Dance of the Electronic Bee Lesson Thirty-Nine The Price of Light Lesson Forty Spawning Jazz Blues and Poverty Lesson Forty-One Debating the Dress Code Lesson Forty-Two Letters from Readers Lesson Forty-Three Patent Fever Grips U. S Inventors Lesson Forty-Four For Russians a Thinning of the Flanks Lesson Forty-Five Managing Jet Lag Lesson Forty-Six Automakers Tackle Issue of Affordability Lesson Forty-Seven Sex: It's All in Your Brain Lesson Forty-Eight Teaching Teachers Lesson Forty-Nine Acer's Approach: Employee Investors Lesson Fifty Treasury Hopes New-Look Dollar Can't Be Copied Lesson Fifty-One Asia's Anti-AIDS Crusade Lesson Fifty-Two Can't Reach Your Doctor? Try E-Mail Lesson Fifty-Three Split Opinions over Avoiding Divorce Lesson Fifty-Four Advertisers Plaster Names on City's Face Lesson Fifty-Five Cost-Conscious Shoppers Seek Secondhand Lesson Fifty-Six Surf's Up for New-Wave Bankers Lesson Fifty-Seven Hotel Management: A Five-Star Career Lesson Fifty-Eight Digital Money Opens Way to Cashless Global Trading Lesson Fifty-Nine Tarnished Trophies Lesson Sixty Brave New Work Vocabulary