新编大学英语阅读教程

Unit 1 Nature

Passage 1 Surviving a Tsunami--Lessons from Chile，Hawaii，and Japan

Passage 2 The 1960 Tsunami and the Earthquake in Chile ThatCaused It

Passage 3 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake

Unit 2 Pursuit of Knowledge and Wisdom

Passage 1 A Note on Reading

Passage 2 Books

Passage 3 The Joys of Writing

Unit 3 Education

Passage 1 How Coleges Are Failing Our Students

Passage 2 The Ivory Tower Obscurity Fetish

Passage 3 How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?

Unit 4 Employment

Passage 1 Four Minutes That Get You Hired

Passage 2 Academy for Amahs

Passage 3 The Most Frequent Fliers

Unit 5 Women's Problems

Passage 1 Woman and Superwoman

Passage 2 In Pursuit of Thinness

Passage 3 Eveline

Unit 6 Life Experiences

Passage 1 How to Grow OId

Passage 2 Welcome to My Day

Passage 3 Joseph Pulitzer Dies Suddenly

Unit 7 People in History

Passage 1 The Secret Life of a Very Private Poet

Passage 2 Memories of My Early Childhood with Willie Nelson

Passage 3 The Crusades

Unit 8 Digital Technology

Passage 1 Textuality in Cyberspace：MUDS and Written Experience

Passage 2 The ABC’S of MP3：A Crash Course in the Digital Music Phenomenon

Passage 3 The Economy of Ideas：A Framework for Patents and Copyrights in the Digital Age

Unit 9 Environment and People

Passage 1 Environment：111e Good News

Passage 2 Three Revolutions in Human Populations

Passage 3 The Culture of Nature

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Unit 10 Human Ethics

Unit 11 Values of Thinking

Unit 12 Science and Technology

Unit 13 Socitety

Unit 14 Psychology

Unit 15 Human Relations—Generation Gap,Love,Marriage and Family

Key to Exercises

《新编大学英语阅读教程》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。
《新编大学英语阅读教程》一共四册，与目前大学英语教学的课程设置平行，每学期一册，循序渐进，由浅入深。通过课堂教学和学生课外阅读，逐步培养学生良好的语言思维和语言学习习惯，以达到最佳的教与学效果。