当代研究生英语阅读教程2

Unit 1 Food and Diet
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
Food： Past and Present
Part Ⅲ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　A New Diet Equation
Passage 2　Diet, Nutrition and Healthy Living
Passage 3　Cancer and Diet
Unit 2　Archaeology
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
Excavating an Ancient Egyptian Tomb
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Troy Uncovered
Passage 2　Pompeii： Buried in Ages
Passage 3　Machu Picchu Archaeological Sites
Unit 3 Medicine
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
A Brief History of Medicine
Part　Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth}
Passage 1　The Controversy over Human Cloning
Passage 2　Natural Medicine —— The Way Home
Passage 3　How to Build a Body Part
Unit 4 Space
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
When Galaxies Collide
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Transient Lunar Phenomena
Passage 2　Water, Flash Floods and New Possibilities for Life on
Passage 3　The Salyut Experience
Unit 5 Histoy
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
Rome： From Republic to Empire
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Anglo-Saxon England
Passage 2　The Enlightenment
Passage 3　Victorian Era
Unit 6 Biography
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
An American Storyteller： Ernest Hemingway
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Johannes Kepler
Passage 2　Napoleon —— Downfall and Legend
Passage 3　Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meek
Unit 7 Leisure Reading（Ⅲ）
Passage 1　Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Passage 2　The Trial of O. J. Simpson
Passage 3　That Lean and Hungry Look
Passage 4　An Excerpt from Jane Eyre
Unit 8　Economics
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
What Is Economics?
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations
Passage 2　Karl Marxs Economic Conceptions
Passage 3　John Maynard Keynes
Unit 9 Materlals Sclence
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
A Brief History of Materials
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　The Age of Superstuff
Passage 2　Superconductor Search： a Race and an Obsession
Passage 3　The Future of Nanomaterials
Unit 10 Philosophy
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
What Is Philosophy?
Part　Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Socratic Method
Passage 2　Rene Descartes Dualism and Rationalism
Passage 3　Brief Introduction to Kant
Unit 11 Law
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （ Skimming and Scanning）
An Introduction to Law
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Origins of Common Law
Passage 2　The American Jury System： Standing in the Way of Justice?
Passage 3　Nuremberg Trials
Unit 12 Education
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
The University and Society
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Set Universities Free
Passage 2　Requirements for Completion in U.S. Graduate Schools
Passage 3　Bertrand Russell on Education
Unit 13 Spots
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
Social Aggregates and Cultural Influences in the Rise of Sport
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Good Sports
Passage 2　Spectator Sports Reflect Americas Melting Pot
Passage 3　How David Stern and Michael Jordan May Have Destroyed
Unit 14 Leisure Reading（Ⅳ）
Passage 1　King Edward Ⅷ Abdicated for Love
Passage 2　Love Is a Fallacy （Part Ⅰ ）
Passage 3　Love Is a Fallacy （Part　Ⅱ ）
Passage 4　An Excerpt from Death in the Afternoon
Unit 15 Ectertainment
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
The Beatles
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Is the Web the Future of Entertainment?
Passage 2　A History of Oscars Ups and Downs
Passage 3　Soap Opera
Unit 16 Book Review
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （ Reading in Depth）
Passage I　Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Passage 2　Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Passage 3　Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Unit 17 Conputer and Internet
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
Computer Science
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （ Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Life on the Net
Passage 2　Alienation and the Internet
Passage 3　Crime in Cyberspace
Unit 18 Architecure
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
European Architecture： History and Styles
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　The Castles of Europe
Passage 2　Islamic Architecture
Passage 3　Modern Architecture： Reaching for the Sky
Unit 19 Management
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
Management Strategies in Competing with Japan
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Chaos Theory of Management
Passage 2　Abraham Maslows Hierarchy of Needs Theory
Passage 3　Scenario Planning
Unit 20 Psychology
Part Ⅰ　Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）
Freudian Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Part Ⅱ　Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）
Passage 1　Dreams： Night School
Passage 2　Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Passage 3　The New Word on Gossip
Keys
Refereces