《中級英語閱讀教程》是我們在總結多年來短期英語強化培訓教學經(jīng)驗的基礎上,根據(jù)國家教育部“出國留學人員英語強化教學大綱”修訂本及我國留學生在英語國家學習、工作、生活的實際需求編寫的。它體現(xiàn)了短期外語強化教學“大劑量、高時效、重交際、講靈活”的十二字教學主導方針,為學生在短期內(nèi)實現(xiàn)外語水平的迅速提高提供了有效的平臺。中級系列教材于九七年面世,共包括閱讀、快速閱讀、寫作、聽力、聽力測試閱讀測試等六本。縱橫銜接,循序漸進,有利于學習者全面、快捷地提高英語聽說讀寫各項技能。經(jīng)過十多年的使用,在征求廣大讀者以及使用單位師生意見之后,編者感到原有中級閱讀教材內(nèi)容有些陳舊,已不能滿足二十一世紀讀者的要求。因此,我們重新編寫了閱讀教材、新編寫的教材具有以下特點:內(nèi)容新穎、覆蓋面廣《中級英語閱讀教程》共編錄了25篇文章,內(nèi)容涉及英語國家的社會、文化、經(jīng)濟、政治、科技、教育等方方面面,既可以幫助讀者提高對英語原版文章的閱讀理解能力,又可以擴大視野,了解國外風情。
短期英語強化培訓教材是西安外國語大學出國留學人員培訓部的教師針對出國留學人員、在校大學生、研究生、及廣大英語學習愛好者在較短時間內(nèi)提高英語應用能力而編寫的教材。
該系列教材是我們在總結多年來短期英語強化培訓教學經(jīng)驗的基礎上,根據(jù)國家教育部“出國留學人員英語強化教學大綱”修訂本及我國留學生在英語國家學習、工作、生活的實際需求編寫的。它體現(xiàn)了短期外語強化教學“大劑量、高時效、重交際、講靈活”的十二字教學主導方針,為學生在短期內(nèi)實現(xiàn)外語水平的迅速提高提供了有效的平臺。
中級系列教材于九七年面世,共包括閱讀、快速閱讀、寫作、聽力、聽力測試閱讀測試等六本?v橫銜接,循序漸進,有利于學習者全面、快捷地提高英語聽說讀寫各項技能。
經(jīng)過十多年的使用,在征求廣大讀者以及使用單位師生意見之后,編者感到原有中級閱讀教材內(nèi)容有些陳舊,已不能滿足二十一世紀讀者的要求。因此,我們重新編寫了閱讀教材、新編寫的教材具有以下特點:
一、內(nèi)容新穎、覆蓋面廣
本書共編錄了25篇文章,內(nèi)容涉及英語國家的社會、文化、經(jīng)濟、政治、科技、教育等方方面面,既可以幫助讀者提高對英語原版文章的閱讀理解能力,又可以擴大視野,了解國外風情。
Unit 1 The Crying Shame
Unit 2 In Grey BritainItS Always Your Fault
Unit 3 Use It or Lose It:Keeping the Brain Young
Unit 4 Confession of a Nicotine Addict
Unit 5 Speaking of English:了he British and the Americans
Unit 6 Spoilt for Choice
Unit 7 Why We Are Youched by the Sound of Music
Unit 8 0lder Parents:Good for Kids?
Unit 9 Embassies for Sale
Unit 10 The Tonguetied Americans
Unit 11 An Open and Shut Marriage
Unit 12 Hurry Sickness
Unit 13 EverythingS Coming Up Rosetinted
Unit 14 Making Parenta!Leave a Right
Unit 15 Fighting AIDS Discrimination
Unit 16 Requiem for the Typewriter
Unit 17 Art Treasures
Unit 18 Putting on Their Game Faces
Unit 19 Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback
Unit 20 The "Moral Rights" of Artists
Unit 21 Seduced in the Supermarket
Unit 22 Why Are You Laughing
Unit 23 Science and the People at Large
Unit 24 Search for the Wolf
Unit 25 Genes Versus Society
Keys to the Exercises
1 Office workers Bob Kearns and Helen Bell were both upset bythe bosss news. They had just been told the news that, despiteearlier promises, they would not be promoted for another sixmonths. The man Kearns shouted at the boss~ the woman Bellcried.
2 The office was abuzz with Kearns reaction. "Did you hearwhat he shouted at the boss?" He was a minor hero for a day.But, if anyone spoke of Bells behaviour, it was in hushed tones.She had committed the unforgivable sin of crying at work.
3 If Dr. William Frey had been there, though, Bell would havebeen the one to be applauded. "A lot of people shout and yell atwork. Thats not very constructive... Its very good for people tocry. Its very important to allow yourself to cry to alleviatestress," says Frey, a biochemist who works at the Dry Eye andTears Research Center in the American state of Minnesota.