新大学英语阅读教程

CHAPTER 1 The Global Melting Pot ACADEMIC FOCUS:SOCIOLOGY AND INTERNATIONA STUDIES Reading Assignment 1: Buicks, Starbucks and Fried Chicken:Still China? Reading Assignment 2: The Muslim World of Colas Reading Assignment 3: The Roots of Old and New World FoodsCHAPTER2 What Makes You You? ACADEMIC FOCUS:GENETICS AND PSYCHOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: The Nature versus Nurture Debate Reading Assignment 2: The Wild Boy of Aveyron Reading Assignment 3: Linking Psychology and GeneticsCHAPTER3 Norms and Values: To Sleep, To Dream ACADEMIC FOCUS:PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: While You Are Sleeping Reading Assignment 2: What Is Dreaming Reading Assignment 3: The ABC's of Dreams

CHAPTER 1 The Global Melting Pot ACADEMIC FOCUS:SOCIOLOGY AND INTERNATIONA STUDIES Reading Assignment 1: Buicks, Starbucks and Fried Chicken:Still China? Reading Assignment 2: The Muslim World of Colas Reading Assignment 3: The Roots of Old and New World FoodsCHAPTER2 What Makes You You? ACADEMIC FOCUS:GENETICS AND PSYCHOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: The Nature versus Nurture Debate Reading Assignment 2: The Wild Boy of Aveyron Reading Assignment 3: Linking Psychology and GeneticsCHAPTER3 Norms and Values: To Sleep, To Dream ACADEMIC FOCUS:PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: While You Are Sleeping Reading Assignment 2: What Is Dreaming Reading Assignment 3: The ABC's of DreamsCHAPTER4 Women Speak Out ACADEMIC FOCUS: LITERATURE AND WOMEN'S STUDIES Reading Assignment 1: Lessons for Wome Reading Assignment 2: At Last Free Reading Assignment 3: A Domestic Dilemma CHAPTER5 Cracking the Ice Age ACADEMIC FOCUS: GEOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY Reading Assignment 1: The Story behind the Ice Age Reading Assignment 2: The Ice Man Cometh/ 183 Reading Assignment 3: Kill, Chill, or Ill? What Happened to the Ice Age MammalsCHAPTER6 Science and Society: Up from Slavery ACADEMIC FOCUS: HISTORY Reading Assignment 1: Slavery in America Reading Assignment 2: A Slave's Journey in Sudan Reading Assignment 3: From Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class AmericanKeys

本系列教材由北大外国语学院副院长刘树森教授、清华大学英语系副主任刘世生教授联合总主编，对原版引进的阅读教材进行针对国内“三本”院校的本土化改编。本教材是典型的贯彻了“任务依托式”教学理念的大学英语教材，丰富多样的任务让学生由过去机械被动的阅读转变为了积极参与式的阅读。本书在美国主要针对社区大学中母语为非英语国家的移民学生，符号高教司关于大学英语教学改革及4、6级考试改革的精神及政策导向。 本书主要用作大学本科公共英语阅读教材，同时尤其适合准备出国留学人员自学使用，因为选材多为真实的学术情景下的语篇，注重培养学术技能，有助于读者提高英语及学术语言能力。