《英语阅读(1)》是高等院校英语专业基础阶段阅读课程使用的系列教材,也适用于非英语专业学生和中级英语学习者。
《英语阅读(1)》循序渐进地构建了系统的多元化人文知识体系,时代性、经典性、哲理性、学术性、世界性并重,涵盖社会、政治、经济、文化、历史、新闻、宗教、体育、医药、文学、风土人情、科普知识等各个领域。
英英注释文章的词汇、句子、语法、修辞、文化等知识点,便于学生扩大词汇量,快速理解课文,提高英语思维能力。
练习题型多样化,旨在加强学生的语言基本功训练,提高他们的阅读理解能力与语言应用能力。书后附有难题练习的参考答案,供教师和学生参考。
课堂教学与课外拓展阅读有机整合。教材介绍了一些有效的阅读方法,每单元配有与主题相关的英语同步阅读拓展资源,促使阅读教学朝着自主式学习方向发展。
《英语阅读》系列教材让学习者徜徉在英语世界的广阔天地中,采撷芬芳,咀嚼英华,并在英文氛围中潜移默化,享受阅读带来的乐趣。
Unit One A Guide to College Life and Study
1. High School Versus College Life
2. College Students and Homesickness
3. Critical Mistakes Made by Most College Freshmen
4. How to Be a Successful Language Learner?
5. The SQ3R Method
6. Efficient Reading Strategies
Unit Two Learning and Reading
1. Selected Readings from The Analects
2. An Exhortation to Learning (excerpts)
3. Study
4. Professional Skill
5. The Delights of Books
6. Companionship of Books
7. It is Never Too Late for Success
Unit Three People
1. Marie Curie
Introduction
Marie Curie: A Biography (excerpts)
University Life
Marriage and Home Life
2. Helen Keller
Introduction
The Story of My Life (excerpts)
Meeting with My Teacher Anne Sullivan
Overcoming the Difficulty
College Life
Unit Four Arts
1. The Holly land of the American Movie Industry —— Hollywood
2. The Academy Awards
3. The Most Influential Film Festivals
4. The Big Six —— Top 6 Major Film Studios in the Movie Business
5. The Emmy Awards
6. The Grammy Awards
7. Audrey Hepburn
Unit Five Polities
1. China showcases strength, vitality on 60th founding anniversary
2. After Shenzhou Success, China Looks to the Future
3. Tibet celebrates Serfs Emancipation Day
4. 85,000 Iraqis killed in almost 5 years of war
Unit Six Cyberculture
1. Websites Connect Donors to Specific Needs
2. Kids Embrace the Spirit of Giving
3. Woven deep into our lives
4. Internet addiction made an official disorder in China
Unit Seven Fables, Folktales, Fairy Tales
1. The Golden Axe
2. Three Apples
3. The Shepherd Boy
4. The Most Incredible Thing
5. The Happy Prince
Unit Eight Adventure Novels
1. Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Plot Overview
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Plot Overview
3. The Little Prince
Plot Overview
Unit Nine World History I
1. Origins of the Earth and Humans
2. The Middle East
3. Ancient Egypt
4. Ancient Greece
Unit Ten Poems
1. Tagores Poems
Introduction
The Home
Benediction
On the Seashore
The Gift
Strong Mercy
Lotus
Lamp of Love
2. Dickinsons Poems
Introduction
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
If I can stop one Heart from breaking
Im nobody! Who are you?
The Brain —— is wider than the Sky
Success is counted sweetest
Key to the Exercises
Appendix 1 Conventions for Capitalizing Words of English News Headlines
Appendix 2 Timeline of World History (I)
Websites
References
In Beijing, Serfs Emancipation Day became the hottest topic among students in the Tibet Middle School. Many students hummed Q the old song“Freed serfs sing in happiness”.
My grandparents were both serfs,“said an eleventh-grader Dawa Dorje.”
They told me that they tied stones to their feet as shoes, and my granny became blind because she had no money to cure her eye illness, she said.
Currently there are 810 Tibetan students in the school, whose accommodation, clothes, health care were all funded by the government.
Main celebration for the holiday was held on the square in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, capital city of Tibet, at 10 a.m.
The gathering was presided over in both Tibetan and Mandarin by Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the regional government of Tibet, who was dressed in a traditional Tibetan robe.
It was attended by about 13,280 people.