出国留学英语阅读强化教程：基础

Unit 1 Movie ...........................................................................................1
Section I Focus on Strategies for Textbook Learning
—Introducing SQ3R .........................................................................2
Section II Text A: A er All the Crazy Oscar Drama Live Onstage,
One Idea Endures: the Power of Empathy......................................4
Section III Text B: From Fantasy to Reality
—Beauty and the Beast .................................................................. 18
Unit 2 Environment .............................................................................33
Section I Focus on Building Word Power .................................................... 34
Section II Text A: Modi and the Environment ............................................. 37
Section III Text B: Why Vegetarianism Is the Best Way to Help the
Environment ................................................................................... 48
Unit 3 Ocean ........................................................................................63
Section I Focus on Connecting the General to the Speci c in
Reading and Writing ...................................................................... 64
Section II Text A:  e Sea Is Su ering ........................................................... 66
Section III Text B: Why Our Brains Love the Ocean .................................... 79
Unit 4 Universe ....................................................................................91
Section I Focus on Topics and Topic Sentences .......................................... 92
Section II Text A: Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?............ 94
Section III Text B: To the Moon and Beyond............................................... 107
Unit 5 Health .....................................................................................123
Section I Focus on Fact and Opinion ......................................................... 124
Section II Text A: Could Our Own Proteins Be Used to
Help Us Conquer Cancer? ........................................................... 126
Section III Text B: Drugs from the Sea ......................................................... 138
Unit 6 Nature .....................................................................................151
Section I Focus on Purpose and Tone ........................................................ 152
Section II Text A: Naturalists, Collectors, and Biodiversity ..................... 154
Section III Text B: No-till: How Farmers Are Saving the Soil
by Parking  eir Plows ................................................................ 167
Unit 7 Arti cial Intelligence..............................................................181
Section I Focus on Supporting Details ...................................................... 182
Section II Text A: A Robot in Every Home................................................. 184
Section III Text B: Hands-on Computing: How Multi-touch
Screens Could Change the Way We Interact with
Computers and Each Other ........................................................ 195
Unit 8 History and Religion ..............................................................207
Section I Focus on Inferences ..................................................................... 208
Section II Text A: Climate and Human History ......................................... 210
Section III Text B: Religion and Plato ........................................................... 223
Unit 9 Politics and Society .................................................................235
Section I Focus on Recognizing Patterns of Organization
in Paragraphs ................................................................................ 236
Section II Text A: Inaugural Address of Barack Obama ........................... 238
Section III Text B: Against Honeymoons ..................................................... 250
Unit 10 Science and Arts ...................................................................261
Section I Focus on Reading Longer Selections ......................................... 262
Section II Text A: “ e Light of Reason” or “the Light
of Ambiguity” ................................................................................ 264
Section III Text B:  e Power of Mozart....................................................... 275