新编大学英语阅读教程

Unit 1 Mental Health

Passage 1 Depression ： Material and Psychological

Passage 2 Dont Let Anger Get the Best of You

Passage 3 New ，Ways to Protect Yourself From Crime

Unit 2 Human Relations

Passage 1 Table Manners

Passage 2 Harry Potter and the Sad Grown-ups

Passage 3 Friendship

Unit 3 Life and Work

Passage 1 Pink or Blue？ — Knowing Your Business Style

Passage 2 Putting Your Job Interview into Rehearsal

Passage 3 Your Dream Job： A Click Away

Unit 4 Entertainment

Passage 1 Cartoon Stars： Who Create Them？

Passage 2 Casino Chow

Passage 3 Enjoying Hamburger and Digging up Its History

Unit 5 Information Technology

Passage 1 Schools Face Staff Cuts

Passage 2 Information Age

Passage 3 For Some， the Blogging Never Stops

Unit 6 Economy and Society

Passage 1 Can Anybody Here Play This Game？

Passage 2 China Pays a Price for Cheaper Oil

Passage 3 Price Hike Signals More

Unit 7 Public Health and Social Welfare

Passage 1 Three Objections to the Moral Permissibility of Voluntary Euthanasia

Passage 2 A Ticking Time Bomb

Passage 3 Summertime， When People and Parasites Head for the Water

Unit 8 Technology

Passage 1 Learning How to Make Rain

Passage 2 Caught in the Web of the Internet

Passage 3 The Two Paths of Virtual Reality

Unit 9 Personal Development

Passage 1 How to Find Time to Read

Passage 2 To Learn to Think in College， Write a Lot

Passage 3 Shattering the Glass Ceiling

Unit 10 Urban Reflections

Passage 1 Paris — The City of Light

Passage 2 Music School Offers Free Lessong

Passage 3 On the Meaning of Life

Unit 11 Understanding of Man and World

Passage 1 Whats So Good About Failure？

Passage 2 Mistakes Winners Dont Make

Passage 3 On Time

Unit 12 Glimpse of China

Passage 1 Seeking to Revive China s TV King

Passage 2 The Three Gorges Project

Passage 3 South-to-North Water Diversion Project

Unit 13 Legendary Stories

Passage 1 King Arthur and His Round Table

Passage 2 King Arthur and His Knights

Passage 3 The Phoenix in Mythology

Unit 14 Education

Passage 1 The Kindness of Strangers

Passage 2 Challenge in Childrens Literature

Passage 3 Advice That Can Help You Succeed on Campus

Unit 15 Womens Problems

Passage 1 Beauty Contestant Fights for Right of

Self-improvemerit

Passage 2 Do Women Lack Ambition？

Passage 3 Study： Asian Suicide Rate Higher in Women

Unit 16 Biography

Passage 1 Henry Ford， Inventor and Manufacturer

Passage 2 Steven Spielberg， the Moviemaker

Passage 3 The Death of Socrates

Unit 17 Personal Experiences

Passage 1 Changing the Way You Look at Yourself

Passage 2 Unforgettable Rocky

Passage 3 A Double-Dyed Deceiver

Unit 18 Human History and Culture

Passage 1 Some Theories of History

Passage 2 The Origins of Language and Song

Passage 3 Change： Some Firsts in Human History

Key to Exercises

由欧阳俊林主编的《新编大学英语阅读教程（2级修订版）》广泛收集了现代英语，特别是近十年来英美社会的多式样语言文本。话题覆盖了当今政治、经济、文化、科技、教育、心理、人文、社会等诸多方面，帮助读者了解当今国际各领域的发展动态和问题，并从接触真实语料入手，学习和掌握语言形式、功能和用法，加深语言理解，从而全面提高学生英语语言的阅读水平，增强学生参加新体制下的大学英语四、六级考试的应试能力。