新编大学英语阅读教程·四级（第2版）

　　《新编大学英语阅读教程（4级）》广泛收集了现代英语，特别是近十年来英美社会的多式样语言文本。话题覆盖了当今政治、经济、文化、科技、教育、心理、人文、社会等诸多方面，帮助读者了解当今国际各领域的发展动态和问题，并从接触真实语料入手，学习和掌握语言形式、功能和用法，加深语言理解，从而全面提高学生英语语言的阅读水平，增强学生参加新体制下的大学英语四、六级考试的应试能力。《新编大学英语阅读教程》一共四册，与目前大学英语教学的课程设置平行，每学期一册，循序渐进，由浅入深。通过课堂教学和学生课外阅读，逐步培养学生良好的语言思维和语言学习习惯，以达到最佳的教与学效果。

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Unit 1 Education
Passage 1 How Colleges Are Failing Our Students
Passage 2 The Ivory Tower Obscurity Fetish
Passage 3 How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing？
Unit 2 Employment
Passage 1 Four Minutes That Get You Hired
Passage 2 Academy for Amahs
Passage 3 The Most Frequent Fliers
Unit 3 Women' s Problems
Passage 1 Woman and Superwoman
Passage 2 In Pursuit of Thinness
Passage 3 Eveline
Unit 4 Life Experiences
Passage 1 How to Grow Old
Passage 2 Welcome to My Day
Passage 3 Joseph Pulitzer Dies Suddenly
Unit 5 People in History
Passage 1 The Secret Life of a Very Private Poet
Passage 2 Memories of My Early Childhood with Willie Nelson
Passage 3 The Crusades
Unit 6 Digital Technology
Passage 1 Textuality in Cyberspace： MUDS and Written Expernce
Passage 2 The ABC s of MP3 ： A Crash Course in the Digital Music Phenomenon.
Passage 3 The Economy of Ideas： A Framework for Patents and Copyrights in the Digital Age
Unit 7 Environment and People
Passage 1 Environment： The Good News
Passage 2 Three Revolutions in Human Populations
Passage 3 The Culture of Nature
Unit 8 Human Ethics
Passage 1 Genetic Encores： The Ethics of Human Cloning
Passage 2 Technology and the Media
Passage 3 Modem Technology and American Values
Unit 9 Values of Thinking
Passage 1 Thinking as a Hobby（Ⅰ）
Passage 2 Thinking as a Hobby （Ⅱ）
Passage 3 The Aesthetic Moment
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