大学英语实用阅读

Unit 1　Text How to Measure What You Learned in College　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Six Ways to Be Happy with Your College Choice　Passage 2 Funding in American Higher EducationUnit 2　Text A Worldwide Gender Gap　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Womens Position in the 17th Century　Passage 2 Gaining Ground on the Wage FrontUnit 3　Text What Animals Really Think:Food,Warmth, Sleep?　Their Thoughts May Be Much Deeper Than That　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 How Did Dogs Become Adept at Playing to Humans?

Unit 1　Text How to Measure What You Learned in College　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Six Ways to Be Happy with Your College Choice　Passage 2 Funding in American Higher EducationUnit 2　Text A Worldwide Gender Gap　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Womens Position in the 17th Century　Passage 2 Gaining Ground on the Wage FrontUnit 3　Text What Animals Really Think:Food,Warmth, Sleep?　Their Thoughts May Be Much Deeper Than That　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 How Did Dogs Become Adept at Playing to Humans?　Passage 2 Death of a TigerUnit 4　Text Tide of Grief　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Tide of Grief(continued)　Passage 2 In the Wake of the TsunamiUnit 5　Text Fighting “Big Fat”　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Its Not the Carbs, Stupid　Passage 2 A Gene That Says,“No More”Unit 6　Text Artful Aging　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Four Rules for Living a Long Healthy Life　　Passage 2 The Power of Positive ThinkingUnit 7　Text Merchants of Death　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Humans Were Born to Run, Fossil Study Suggests　Passage 2 A Job or a Cigarette?Unit 8　Text Testing the Science of Intelligence　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 In Defiance of Darwin　Passage 2 ColorCoordinated “Truths”Unit 9　Text Scientists Try to Find out Whats So Funny about Humor　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Searching for the Divine　Passage 2 Spiders Watch Their Diets Too,Study SaysUnit 10　Text Whats in a Name?　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Developing a Company Image and Brand　Passage 2 Brand Management:Define Your Identity, Then Stick to ItUnit 11　Text Is a Large Asteroid Headed for Impact with the Earth in 2880?　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Prehistoric Asteroid“Killed Everything”　Passage 2 “DinosaurKiller”Asteroid Crater Imaged for First TimeUnit 12　Text Green Burials:Thinking Outside the Box　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Home Funerals: An Old Tradition Returns　Passage 2 Waste Leads to Worry in IndonesiaUnit 13　Text When Does Autism Start?　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 When Does Autism Start?(continued)　passage 2 Lost and Found: One Womans Remarkable TransformationUnit 14　Text Border Net Has Become a Noose　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming　Passage 2 Turning a CornerUnit 15　Text Is It Apocalypse Now?　Supplementary Reading　Passage 1 Is It Apocalypse Now?(continued)　Passage 2 The End Is Not at Hand

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