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English for Academic Success Series What is the purpose of this series? What is the purpose of the Reading strand? What is the organization of College Reading 1? What student competencies Are covered in College Reading 1 ? What Are the Features of the Reading Books?CHAPTER 1 Intelligence ACADEMIC FOCUS: PSYCHOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: Intelligence Reading Assignment 2: Research on Intelligence Reading Assignment 3: Approaches to Understanding IntelligenceCHAPTER 2 Thinking Critically about the Internet ACADEMIC FOCUS: COMPUTERS/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: Thinking Critically about the Internetr Reading Assignment 2: Technology Changes People's Lives

English for Academic Success Series What is the purpose of this series? What is the purpose of the Reading strand? What is the organization of College Reading 1? What student competencies Are covered in College Reading 1 ? What Are the Features of the Reading Books?CHAPTER 1 Intelligence ACADEMIC FOCUS: PSYCHOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: Intelligence Reading Assignment 2: Research on Intelligence Reading Assignment 3: Approaches to Understanding IntelligenceCHAPTER 2 Thinking Critically about the Internet ACADEMIC FOCUS: COMPUTERS/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: Thinking Critically about the Internetr Reading Assignment 2: Technology Changes People's Lives Reading Assignment 3: Practice "Netiquette": Be Kind While You're OnlineCHAPTER 3 Norms and Values: The Glue of Society ACADEMIC FOCUS: SOCIOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: Sociology: Studying Society and Group Influences Reading Assignment 2: Values Americans Live By Reading Assignment 3: American ValuesCHAPTER 4 The Attraction of Diamonds ACADEMIC FOCUS: GEOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: The Curse of the Hope Diamond Reading Assignment 2: The Curse of the Hope Diamond? Reading Assignment 3: How Gemstones are FormedCHAPTER 5 Art and Society ACADEMIC FOCUS: HUMANITIES Reading Assignment 1: Michelangelo's David Reading Assignment 2: Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial Reading Assignment 3: Pablo Picasso's GuemicaCHAPTER 6 Science and Society: The Ethics of Research ACADEMIC FOCUS: SCIENCE Reading Assignment 1: Science and Technology Reading Assignment 2: Scientific Research Reading Assignment 3: Ethical Issues in Scientific Research

历史跨入21世纪之后，伴随着中华民族的发展和崛起，更好地培养具有高水平的英语应用能力的新世纪人才便成为我国大学英语教学所肩负的重要任务，也是时代所赋予的使命。如果说，在人类开始步人现代社会的19世纪，马克思说“外国语是人生奋斗的一种武器”，歌德说“只通晓一种语言的人无法真正理解他的母语”，主要是着眼于掌握和使用一门外语对作为个体的人的作用和意义，那么在当今社会各个领域都日益全球化、多元的民族文化融合交织的复杂背景下，无论是个人还是国家和民族，掌握并运用一门作为国际通用语言的外语，对其存在与发展的重要性都是不言而喻的。　　在教育领域，教材历来是教学的重要基础，教材的质量与特征也在很大程度上决定教学效果。就大学英语教学而言，教材的不断更新和建设历来是促进教学改革、提高教学质量的重要基础和先行任务。在国家的宏观政策方面，国家教育部和全国高校外语教学指导委员会长期以来一直坚定推行大学英语教学改革，制定并颁布了新时期的《大学英语课程教学要求》，为大学英语教材的编写及其教学工作提供了指导与依据。在上述背景下，北京大学教材建设委员会重点立项“大学英语”教材建设，北京大学出版社具体组织、策划了本套《大学英语立体化网络化系列教材》的编写和出版工作，并被教育部批准为普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材。