大学英语扩展阅读教程

第一部分 技巧导航

一、阅读过程中的猜词技巧

1．利用构词法知识猜测词义

1）利用复合法（composition)猜测词义

2)利用转化法（conversion)猜测词义

3)利用派生法（derivation)猜测词义

4)利用逆成法（back formation)猜测词义

2．利用文章中的解释说明猜测词义

1)根据定义猜测词义

2)根据同位语猜测词义

3)根据定语从句猜测词义

4)根据重述猜测词义

5)根据举例猜测词义

3．利用词与词之间的语义关系猜测词义

1)根据同义关系猜测词义

2)根据反义关系猜测词义

3)根据上下义关系猜测词义

4．利用语篇结构猜测词义

1)根据一整段猜测词义

2)根据整篇猜测词义

5．利用状语从句猜测词义

6．利用标点符号猜测词义

7．利用中文提示猜测词义

8．利用常识和经验猜测词义

二、联想思维——记忆英语单词的有效方法

1．联想思维法的科学依据

2．如何利用联想思维法记忆单词

3．恒心和毅力是记忆单词的关键

三、相关资料：图式理论

第二部分 篇章阅读

UNIT 1

Text A Microchip, Testament to the Immense Power of Tiny Things

Text B Growth of Wireless Internet Opens New Path for Thieves

Text C Artificial Intelligence

UNIT 2

Text A Unidentified Flying Object

Text B Satellites Free the Mobile Phone

Text C For the First Time, a Spacecraft Impacts with a Comet

UNIT 3

Text A Technology to Meld Chips into Humans Draws Closer

Text B Ultralight Computers

Text C Translation Tools

UNIT 4

Text A Bunker Mentality

Text B Team Claims Success with Rocket Launch

Text C Fee-based Satellite Radio

UNIT 5

Text A Researchers Find a Genetic Link to Obesity

Text B Tobacco Helps Cancer Cells Evade Destruction

Text C Feel Blue? Go Green

UNIT 6

Text A Live or Die

Text B Genetically Modified Foods Feed the World?

Text C Animals Laughed Long Before Humans, Study Says

UNIT 7

Text A SARS Virus No Longer Such a Mystery

Text B Study Says Breast-Cancer Treatments Increase Survival Rates

Text C The Inanimate Environment

UNIT 8

Text A Perspective on Human Behavior

Text B More Attention on Mans Health Care

Text C A New Chip Design May Lead to New Sight

UNIT 9

Text A Superpills with a One-two Punch

Text B Diet Pills: Fen-phen and Redux

Text C Exercise Myths

UNIT 10

Text A Depression Study Finds Hope in Different Treatments, at Least for Some People

Text B While Other Threats Make the News, Heat May Be Natures Deadliest Killer ...

Text C How Humans Are These Creatures?

UNIT 11

Text A Dead Mixer = Alcohol + Tobacco

Text B Health Regulation for Animals

Text C Gene and Giving up Smoking

UNIT 12

Text A Is the Earth Getting Hotter?

Text B Weather: Tornado Science, in a Land with Plenty of Experience

Text C Phone Firms Tapping into Rural Areas

UNIT 13

Text A World No Tobacco Day: A Chance for Smokers to Give Their Bodies a Cigarette

Break

Text B Treatment Developed for Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Text C Food for Thought: How Vitamins （Once Spelled “Vitamines”) Are Important to

Health

UNIT 14

Text A Clean Energy

Text B Wearable Computers You Can Slip into

Text C Skiers Take to Man-made Slopes

UNIT 15

Text A What Happens to Bees in Winter?

Text B A Little Red-eyed Frog Could Hold the Key to Ending the Scourge of AIDS

Text C Animals "Speak" Many Strange Languages

UNIT 16

Text A New Planetary Puzzles

Text B Your Brain on Drugs

Text C The Race against Avian Flu

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References

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