大学英语阅读教程

Unit 1 People

Passage 1 Michael Jordan

Passage2 J. K. Rowling

Passage 3 Audrey Hepburn

Unit 2 Media

Passage 1 The Role of Advertising

Passage 2 Mass Media

Passage 3 New iPad

Unit 3 Festivals

Passage 1 Valentine's Day

Passage 2 April Fool's Day

Passage 3 Halloween

Unit 4 Technology

Passage 1 A Little Device to Read Your Thoughts

Passage 2 New Technologies On Cancer

Passage 3 Recently in Robots

Unit 5 Education

Passage 1 My Education, My Future

Passage 2 Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

Passage 3 Student Mental Health Education

Unit 6 Marriage

Passage 1 Marriage in Japan

Passage 2 You Men Want It Both Ways

Passage 3 Loving Donna

Unit 7 Showbiz

Passage 1 Oprah Winfrey

Passage 2 The Joy Luck Club

Passage 3 The Joker

Unit 8 Globalization

Passage 1 Is "Globalization" Helping or Hurting

Passage 2 Jeff Bezos: King of Amazon. com

Passage 3 Slow is Beautiful

Unit 9 Disasters

Passage 1 Fukushima: A Nuclear War

Passage 2 Mexico Environmental Disaster

Passage 3 The Columbine Tapes

Unit 10 Resources

Passage 1 Natural Resources

Passage 2 Body Heat

Passage 3 Renewable Energy

Unit 11 CuIture

Passage 1 Tibetan Culture and Arts

Passage 2 Sacred Craft

Passage 3 Lucky Charms

Unit 12 Fictions

Passage 1 The Use of Force

Passage 2 Miss Brill

Passage 3 1'11 Never Escape the Ghetto

Unit 13 Family

Passage 1 Parenthood as a Spiritual Journey

Passage 2 Teenagers' Relationship with Their Parents

Passage 3 Information on Different Forms of Family

Passage 4 Chinese Students Need a Break

Key to Exercises

《大学英语阅读教程（1级）（全新版）》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。