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《世纪英语:拓展阅读教程2(第4版)》由大连理工大学出版社出版。

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Unit 1 University Life Text Reading University Days Reading Skill Discourse Connectors Test Unit 2 Boasting Advertising Text Reading Reply to a Lady Wishing ti Marry a Rich Guy Reading Skill Skimming Test Unit 3 Carrer Pursuit Text Reading Great-grandmother’s Ocuupation Reading Skill Scanning Test Unit 4 Airline Stories Text Reading What Courage Looks Like? Reading Skill Speed Reading Test Unit 5 Treasure Books Text Reading A Lesson for Life Reading Skill Underlining and Listing Text Unit 6 Outstanding Men Unit 7 Fantasy Flight Unit 8 Sick Days Unit 9 Wonderful Blogs Unit 10 Mysterious Genes

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1)I passed all the other courses that l took at my university, but I could never pass botany. This was because all botany students had to spend several hours a week in a laboratory looking through a microscope at plant cells, and I could never see through a microscope. 2) "We are not concerned with beauty in this course," he would say. "We are concerned solely with what l may cull the mechanics of flowers." 3) "You were supposed to see vivid restless clockwork of sharply defined plant cells." "I see what looks like a lot of milk," 1 would tell him. 4) The professor had come back from vacation brown as a berry, bright-eyed, and eager to explain cell structure again to his classes. 5) "We'll try it," the professor said to me, grimly,"with every adjustment to the microscope known to man. As God is my witness, I'll arrange this glass so that you see cells through it or I'll give up teaching."

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《世纪英语:拓展阅读教程2(第4版)》是一套专为高职高专院校学生度身打造的新颖、实用的英语阅读教材，并入选普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材。全套教材针对高职高专学生的实际英语水平，根据高职高专院校英语教学的特点和实际需求，突出内容的知识性和实用性，旨在最大限度地拓展学生的英语语言知识，提高学生的阅读理解能力，把培养学生实际运用语言的能力和提高学生应对英语应用能力考试的技能两方面有机融合在一起。 《世纪英语:拓展阅读教程2(第4版)》在第三版教材基础上做了大幅度的修订，重新选取了全部素材，对单元主题和难易程度也进行了新的规划和调整，在体例和风格等方面，都有所创新第四版更注重阅读材料的现代性与新颖性，题材广泛、可读性强。在相关阅读练习的设计上，力求培养学生良好的阅读习-惯，提高他们对英语文字的处理能力。同时，紧密联系高等学校英语应用能力考试的题型，帮助学生顺利通过英语应用能力A、B级考试。