科技英语报刊选读

Unit One Astrophysics

Text A In Search for Alien Life， Researchers Enlist Human Minds

Text B Warp Drive

Unit Two Climatology

Text A The Weekend of 100 Tornadoes: Are Killer

Storms Being Fueled by Climate Change?

Text B Experts Argue Global Warming's Impact on Sandy's Unusual Path to N.J.

Unit Three Renewable Energy

Text A Is the Future of Clean Energy a Pond

of Algae in Every Backyard?

Text B Sweet Hydrogen: How Sugar Could Help Satisfy the World's Energy Needs

Unit Four Chemistry

Text A Plant-Powered Plastics

Text B Full-Body Taste

Unit Five Medical Science

Text A Chemo in Pregnancy Does Not Necessarily

Harm Baby， Says Study

Text B Drug Trial Gives Hope of Longer Life to Women Fighting Ovarian Cancer

Unit Six Dynamics

Text A Solar-Powered Travel: Opening Up New Routes Across Sky， Sea and Land

Text B Hybrids Under the Hood

Unit Seven Paleontology

Text A Life in the Sea Found Its Fate

in a Paroxysm of Extinction

Text B An Underground Fossil Forest Offers Clueson Climate Change

Unit Eight Nanotechnology

Text A Fine-tuning Nanotech to Target Cancer

Text B Nanotechnology Can Launch a New Age ofSpace Exploration

Unit Nine Civil Engineering

Text A Prefabs Sprout as Britain Embraces

Timber-Frame Housing

Text B A Bridge Built to Sway When the Earth Shakes

Unit Ten Software Engineering

Text A Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview-Review

Text B Katrina Changed Everything: New Software

Predicts How Water Will Spread

Appendix Key to Exercises

《科技英语报刊选读》的目标读者为具有大学英语四级水平以上的非英语专业本科生、英语专业高年级学生以及中高级英语学习者。
　　《科技英语报刊选读》结合专门用途英语（ESP）教学的趋势，旨在搭建学生由基础英语通往专业英语的桥梁。《科技英语报刊选读》遴选了十个常见的主题，涵盖物理、化学、生物、医学、环境、能源、气候、软件和建筑等当前比较热门的话题。课文既有严谨的科技成果报道，又有科幻色彩般的对未来新技术的探索，兼顾知识性和趣味性，满足了广大英语学习者的多样化需求。