大学英语阅读教程（社会篇）
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作者： 陈俐丽，李新萍编著
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出版时间： 2008-5-1字数：版次： 1页数： 430印刷时间：开本： 32开印次：纸张：I S B N ： 9787811340631包装： 平装内容简介
为了帮助广大英语学习者提高阅读理解能力，丰富阅读资料，我们编写了《大学英语阅读教程——社会篇》。本册是该系列教程的第四分册。我们希望大家通过阅读本册，提高阅读速度和理解、分析的能力，掌握常用表达法，并通过练习训练语言技能。同时，对我们的社会中多样的文化有更深刻的了解。
本册试图从不同地域、不同文化背景的视角，向大家展示目前社会上人们关注的大问题和小问题，以及对这些问题的不同看法。供讨论用的问题引导读者联系本土实际，阐述个人观点。编写过程中，我们力求语言的实用性和内容的趣味性并存，对语言难点、文化背景、历史背景等进行简略的解释。
本书分为27个单元，每个单元两篇课文，附有注释和理解练习、语言练习。其中理解练习既照顾对全文的把握又考察对词汇等细节的理解；语言练习也根据其难易程度设计不同的形式。
目录
Unit 1 Child Education
TEXT A Should You Homeschool Your Child？
TEXT B Teach Your Children Well
Unit 2 Health
TEXT A Can Work Kill？
TEXT B Mental Health
Unit 3 Your Ancestry
TEXT A So you Think You’re English？ （Part Ⅰ）
TEXT B So You Think You’re English？ （Part Ⅱ）
Unit 4 Parenthood
TEXT A Is There a Kipper in the House？
TEXT B You’re on Your Own Now
Unit 5 Environment
TEXT A A Film That Could Warm Up the Debate on Global Wanning
TEXT B No， it’s Not a Ski Resort —— it’s the South Pole
Unit 6 The Future of Money
TEXT A Paying by Mobile，That’ll do Nicely
TEXT B A Cash Call
Unit 7 Who’s to Blame
TEXT A America’s Tragedy
TEXT B Public Anger Will Follow Our Sorrow
Unit 8 Learning about the Past
TEXT A Where History Isn’t Bunk
TEXT B The Truth in Chains
Unit 9 Time and Space
TEXT A Shaping the Future
TEXT B Giant Step to Discovering Alien Life
Unit 10 Urbanization
TEXT A Head for the Hills but a Heart for the City
TEXT B China’s Chicago
Unit 11 Happiness
TEXT A The Secret to Happiness
TEXT B How to Plant the Seeds of Happiness
Unit 12 Women’s Role
TEXT A Breaking the Glass Ceiling is Harder Abroad
TEXT B I’ll Tell You Why Women Are Running Out of Men to Marry
Unit 13 Internet Security
TEXT A Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction （Part Ⅰ）
TEXT B Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction （Part Ⅱ）
Unit 14 Character Education
TEXT A Character Education
TEXT B Creating a Framework for Excellence
Unit 15 What’s in the News
TEXT A The Month When Our Culture Collapses Into a Pile of Preferences
TEXT B Crime and Punishment
Unit 16 Scientific Attitude
TEXT A Citation Analysis
TEXT B After Dolly: The Future of Cloning
Unit 17 Health and Medicine
TEXT A Are Yanks Sicker Than Brats？ Or Are We Just a Bunch of Hypochondriacs？
TEXT B World’s Best Medical Care？
Unit 18 Human Nature
TEXT A We’re Born to Be Wild
TEXT B The Honesty Virus
Unit 19 Marketing
TEXT A Forces Affecting Modem Marketing
TEXT B The Impact of Advertising
Unit 20 Education
TEXT A Exams Work Because They’re Scary
TEXT B We are Obsessed With Having Fun
Unit 21 Sports Scandal
TEXT A If You Rig It，They Will Come -- How Capitalism Just Might Save Italian Soccer
TEXT B The Secret Steroid
Unit 22 Gender Roles
TEXT A Who’s the Daddy？
TEXT B Just Remember ——This Is a Boy Thing
Unit 23 Terrorism
TEXT A Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers
TEXT B The Terrorism Index
Unit 24 Future Life
TEXT A The Future of Books
TEXT B 2050 -and Immortality Is Within Our Grasp
Unit 25 Aging
TEXT A The Aging Boom
TEXT B Think Yourself Lucky
Unit 26 The Rights to Live and Die
TEXT A Euthanasia
TEXT B Diana， Princess of Wales， Divided the Nation
Unit 27 School and Society
TEXT A What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace
TEXT B How to Get On in the Real World
Appendix 1 Key to Exercises
Appendix 2 Glossary
