大学英语阅读进阶(英语技能提高丛书)(TEN STEPS to Improving College Reading Skills Fourth Edition)

基本信息·出版社：外语教学与研究出版社

·页码：596 页

·出版日期：2008年

·ISBN：9787560055411

·条形码：9787560055411

·包装版本：1版

·装帧：平装

·开本：16

·正文语种：中文/英语

·丛书名：英语技能提高丛书

·外文书名：TEN STEPS to Improving College Reading Skills Fourth Edition

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内容简介《大学英语阅读进阶》：Steps & Skills系列包括阅读、写作、听力、口语等分册，旨在帮助学习者循序渐进地提高英语语言技能。本系列全部为原版引进，作者均为在语言教学与教材编写领域有丰富经验的专家。教材编排新颖，讲解生动，由浅入深，有助于学习者打下扎实的语言基础，同时增强英语思维能力。本系列既可用于课堂教学，也适合自学提高。注重基础，系统性强：介绍提高英语阅读能力的十大技巧，由基础阅读向高级阅读过渡，配有大量练习与测试题。材料丰富，趣味性强：选篇难度适中，内容引人入胜，辅以形式多样的阅读活动，帮助学习者加深理解。锻炼思维，挑战性强：系统的阅读训练与启发性的思考活动有助于学习者提高推理、分析与判断能力。使用方便，实用性强：讲解重点部分配有中文，便于学习者理解和掌握。各章内容安排合理，从讲解、举例、练习到测试，便于教学与评估。

目录

Preface: To the Instructor

INTRODUCTION

1 How to Become a Better Reader and Thinker

2 Reading for Pleasure and Power

3 Some Quick Study Tips

PART ITEN STEPS TO IMPROVING COLLEGE READING SKILLS

1 Vocabulary in Context

Reading: Night WatchRoy Popkin

Mastery Tests

2 Main Ideas

Reading: Here's to Your HealthJoan Dunayer

Mastery Tests

3 Supporting Details

Reading: Child-Rearing StylesDiane E. Papalia and Sally Wendkos Olds

Mastery Tests

4 Implied Main Ideas and the Central Point

Reading: Rowing the BusPaul Logan

Mastery Tests

5 Relationships Ⅰ

Reading: Students in ShockJohn Kellmayer

Mastery Tests

6 Relationships Ⅱ

Reading: l Became Her TargetRoger Wilkins

Mastery Tests

7 Fact and Opinion

Reading: New Respect for the Nap, a Pause That RefreshesJane E. Brody

Mastery Tests

8 Inferences

Reading: Gender Inequality in Health Care and in the Workplace

James M. Henslin

Mastery Tests

9 Purpose and Tone

Reading: The Scholarship JacketMarta Salinas

Mastery Tests

10 Argument

Reading: In Praise of the F WordMary Sherry

Mastery Tests

PART ⅡTEN READING SELECTIONS

1 The Yellow RibbonPete Hamill

2 Urban LegendsBeth Johnson

3 Sha meDick Gregory

4 The Bystander EffectDorothyBarkin

5 The Real Story of Flight 93Karen Breslau, EleanorClift, and Evan Thomas

6 Coping with NervousnessRudolph F. Verderber

7 Compliance Techniques: Getting People to Say YesShelley E. Taylor, Letitia Anne Peplau, and David O. Sears

8 Lizzie BordenJames Kirby Martin and others

9 Nonverbal CommunicationAnthonyF. Grasha

10 Preindustrial CitiesRodney Stark

PART Ⅲ FOR FURTHER STUDY

1 Combined-Skills Tests

2 Propaganda

Mastery Tests

3 More About Argument: Errors in Reasoning

4 Writing Assignments

Acknowledgments

Index

Reading Performance Chart

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序言To the Instructor

We all know that many students entering college today do not have the reading skills needed to do effective work in their courses. A related problem, apparent even in class discussions, is that students often lack the skills required to think in a clear and logical way.

The purpose of Ten Steps to Improving College Reading Skills, Fourth Edition, is to develop effective reading and clear thinking. To do so, Part I presents a sequence of ten reading skills that are widely recognized as essential for basic and advanced comprehension. The first six skills concern the more literal levels of comprehension:

Understanding vocabulary in context

Recognizing main ideas

Identifying supporting details

Recognizing implied main ideas and the central point

Understanding relationships that involve addition and time

Understanding relationships that involve examples, comparison and/or contrast, and cause and effect

The remaining skills cover the more advanced, critical levels of comprehension:

Distinguishing between facts and opinions

Making inferences

Identifying an author's purpose and tone

Evaluating arguments

In every chapter in Part I, the key aspects of a skill are explained and illustrated clearly and simply. Explanations are accompanied by a series of practices, and each chapter ends with four review tests. The last review test consists of a reading selection so that students can apply the skill just learned to real-world reading materials, including newspaper and magazine articles and textbook selections. Together, the ten chapters provide students with the skills needed for both basic and more advanced reading comprehension.

Following each chapter in Part I are at least six mastery tests for the skill in question. The tests progress in difficulty, giving students the additional practice and challenge they may need for the solid learning of each skill. While designed for quick grading, the tests also require students to think carefully before answering each questioin.

文摘Check Your Understanding

Now read the following paragraph and see if you can underline its main idea:

1Tailgating--following too closely behind another vehicle is a common cause of accidents. 2yet tailgating accidents could be avoided if drivers followed some clear-cut guidelines. 3Any car that is less than two seconds behind the one ahead is definitely too close. 4Two car lengths is a safe following distance to maintain in local driving. 5Two-car accidents often become chain-reaction pileups when a number of drivers are all tailgating in a line. 6At freeway speeds, or in snowy, icy or foggy conditions, people should increase following distance well beyond what is normally safe. 7Finally, drivers who are impatient or aggressive need to develop the self-control not to express those feelings through dangerous behaviors like tailgating.

Explanation:

In the preceding paragraph, the main idea is stated in the second sentence. The fists sentence introduces the topic, but it is the idea in the second sentence--tailgating can be avoided by following clear-cut guidelines--that is supported in the rest of the paragraph. So keep in mind that the first sentence may simply introduce or lead into the main idea of a paragraph. Very often, a contrast word like yet, but, or however signals the main idea, as in the paragraph you have just read:

Tailgating--following too closely behind another vehicle--is a common cause of accidents. Yet tailgating accidents could be avoided if drivers followed some clear-cut guidelines.