大学英语阅读

Unit 1 Impressive Stoies

Text 1 Galileo and the Pendulum

Text 2 Strange Minds

Text 3 The Man Who Made McDonald’S Popular Around the World

Text 4 A Leaf from Heaven

Unit 2 Wonderful Nature

Text 1 Breathing Sea Water

Text 2 Snow

Text 3 The Mystery of Time

Text 4 Wonders of the World—Modern Structures

Unit 3 Great inventions

Text 1 The Development of Cinema Film

Text 2 The Man Who Lighted the World

Text 3 Two Inventions That Have Helped Save Lives：Seatbelts and Kevlar

Text 4 The Strange Birth of Television

Unit 4 Useful Energes

Text 1 Using the Sun

Text 2 Plastics—Man’S Most Useful Material

Text 3 Taking the Hot Air out of Wind Power

Text 4 Danger!Atomic Waste!

Unit 5 Health

Text 1 Want to Eat Less?Imagine Eating More

Text 2 How to Help Your Depressed Teen

Text 3 Walking for Exercise and Pleasure

Text 4 Smoking：It’S Never Too Late to Stop

Unit 6 Culture

Text 1 Meet the Downsized Generation：Millennials Who Are Rewriting the Rules for Success

Text 2 What Unites These States?

Text 3 Confucianism in China

Text 4 Ten Benefits of Reading：Why You Should Read Every Day

Unit 7 world concerns

Text 1 Three Myths on the World’S Poor

Text 2 Building a Country by Switching on the Lights

Text 3 Feeding the Planet Without Destroying It

Text 4 Turning up the Volume on Climate Change Isn’t Changing Behaviour

Unit 8 Future World

Text 1 The Futtire of Personal Computing：CloudConnected Screens Everywhere

Text 2 Why We Have to Turn Electronic Devices Off on Planes

Text 3 How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health?

Text 4 Can Schools Survive in the Age of the Web?

Keys to Exercises

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《大学英语阅读(兴趣篇)》立足于民办普通高校大学生的英语基础和认知能力。篇目选择和题目设计由简入难，循序渐进，整体难度适中；强调对学生英语基本技能的培养和训练，突出学生英语实际运用能力的提高。