21世纪大学英语应用型阅读教程

Unit 1 Do It Yourself

Passage 1 DIY Africa

Passage 2 The Case Against Do-It-Yourself Wills

Passage 3 We'er All Mad Scientists Now

Passage 4 An Unexpected Highway Garden

Unit 2 Privacy

Passage 1 Privacy, Please: This Is Only for the Two of Us

Passage 2 With Barely a Whisper, We Gave up Our Privacy

Passage 3 Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good?

Passage 4 A Watchful Eye in Hospitals

Unit 3 Marriage

Passage 1 The Flight from Marriage

Passage 2 The All-or-Nothing Marriage

Passage 3 Interfaith（不同宗教信仰间的）Unions: A Mixed Blessing

Passage 4 Marriage Looks Different Now

Unit 4 Innovation

Passage 1 Iside the Box

Passage 2 A Dearth（缺乏） in Innovation for Key Drugs

Passage 3 The Great Innovation Debates

Passage 4 Embracing the Millennials

Unit 5 Financial Mamagement

Passage 1 Bank Error in My Favor

Passage 2 Women Know More About Finances Than They Get Credit For

Passage 3 Millennials Choose Cash

Passage 4 Why Charging for Plastic Bags Doesn't Work?

Unit 6 Urbanization

Passage 1 Speedy Trains Transform China

Passage 2 Refugee Camp Evolves as a Do-It-Youself City

Passage 3 The Real Afriac

Passage 4 An Urbanizing India Faces Natural Disaster Risk

Unit 7 Office Politics

Passage 1 Standing Up for the Rights of New Fathers

Passage 2 Hiring the Well=Connected Isn't Always a Scandal

Passage 3 Women in the Workplace: How "Good Girls" Fight Back

Passage 4 I Am 54 and A Half—How Old Are You?

Unit 8 Code of Nature

Passage 1 A Grassroots Remedy

Passage 2 Natural Born Killers

Passage 3 As We Seek Nature, We Wall It Out

Passage 4 Our Lonely Home in Nature

Appendix

汪榕培、石坚、邹申主编的《21世纪大学英语应 用型阅读教程》共分四册，是“21世纪大学英语应用 型教程系列”的一个重要组成部分，和《综合教程（ 修订版）》以及《视听说教程（修订版）》等相适应 ，共同形成本科公共英语基础课一个完整的教材体系 。《阅读教程》的主要目的是为了提高使用者的英语 快速阅读（fast reading）和深度阅读 (in-depth reading)这两项基本技能。本书为其中的第4册，由 章志萍、肖旭、李凌云、吴雷达主编。