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Lesson 1 TEXT The Great Kern County Mouse War POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING McDonald's Workers to Get New Clothes Lesson 2 TEXT Whatever's Happened to the Weather? POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING Africa Fights Locust Plagues Lesson 3 TEXT The Global Green Deal POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING Are Girls Good at Science like Boys? Lesson 4 TEXT My Lifelong Apprenticeship POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING To Blog or Not to Blog: For Some, Not Even a Question Lesson 5 TEXT How to Deal with a Difficult Boss POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish Lesson 6 TEXT A Message to Garcia POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING One Woman's Inspiring Story Lesson 7 TEXT Friends of the Ring POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING If atFirst You Don't Succeed Enough Lesson 8 TEXT Happy People POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING A College Student's Experience in Politics Lesson 9 TEXT Happiness POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING Chinese, English Speakers Vary at Math Lesson 10 TEXT The Making of a Scientis POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING China: Help Wanted Lesson 11 TEXT Take This Fish and Look at It POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING Microsoft Seeking Ways to Help Illiterate Lesson 12 TEXT Why There Are So Few Woment in Science POST-READING: SKILL DEVELOPMENT FAST READING Lost but Coule Be Found Lesson 13 Lesson 14 Lesson 15 Lesson 16 Lesson 17 Lesson 18 Lesson 19 Lesson 20 Lesson 21 Lesson 22 Lesson 23 Lesson 24 Appendix Ⅰ Key to Exercises Appendix Ⅱ Key to Fast Reading Appendix Ⅲ Addenda

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《大学英语阅读教程3》：根据教育部《大学英语课程教学要求》编写。

目录

Unit 1 Passage 1 How to Talk to Your Kids Passage 2 Tips on Safe Driving Passage 3 Mountain Climbing Passage 4 Changes of Society Unit 2 Passage 1 Getting on with Your Kids Passage 2 Writers and Railways Passage 3 Noah Webster and His Dictionary Passage 4 IQ and EQ Unit 3 Passage 1 Ozone and Your Health Passage 2 Pearl S．Buck-a Popular American Writer Passage 3 Job——hunting Tips Passage 4 Confusing Measurements Unit 4 Passage 1 Drinking and Driving：Precautions You Can Take Passage 2 Our Capricious Earth Passage 3 What Is Marriage? Passage 4 A New Way of Tracing Unit 5 Passage 1 Water Shortage· Passage 2 The Warming Earth Passage 3 The New Generation in Japan Passage 4 Population Explosion Unit 6 Passage 1 Using the Mind to Fight Diseases Passage 2 Personal Relationship Passage 3 What Is Teaching and What Is Learning? Passage 4 The Value of Scarce Material Unit 7 Passage 1 How to Be a Leader Passage 2 Reading Is Leaving Us Farther and Farther Passage 3 The Importance of C．V．in Job Application Passage 4 Women and Fashion Unit 8 Passage 1 Trust Me。I Am a Robot Passage 2 The Automobile Has Changed Our Life Style Passage 3 Lincoln．an Unforgettable President Passage 4 Make a Timely and Heartfelt Apology Unit 9 Passage 1 The Greenhouse Effect Passage 2 How to Protect Animals Passage 3 Popular Leisure Activities in Britain Passage 4 Advertising to Children on Internet Unit 10 Passage 1 Health Sport Industry in India Passage 2 Technology and Psychological Well-being Passage 3 Life at Home in the Year 2040 Passage 4 The Purpose of New Economy Unit 11 Passage 1 Human Networking Passage 2 The Damage of Rainforests Passage 3 U．S．College Students Have to Pay More for Their Education Passage 4 Milton’s Masterpiece——Paradise Lost Unit 12 Passage 1 How to Create a Home Library Passage 2 What Is an Ambassador? Passage 3 The Experiences of Fear Passage 4 The Pure and Applied Scientists

序言

为了适应我国高等教育新的发展形势，深化教学改革，提高教学质量，满足新时期国家对人才培养的需求，教育部2005年9月公布了大学英语四、六级考试题型改革的新题型，同时，改革分数的报告形式，由原来的100分制改为710分制。其主要目的是使得该项考试更能准确地考查我国在校大学生的英语综合应用能力。 这次大学英语四、六级考试题型改革无论是从深度还是广度上都是史无前例的。然而，比较新旧题型中阅读理解所占的比重，我们不难发现其变化甚微，只是在考查方式上变得多样化了。从单纯的考查仔细阅读能力变为现在综合考查阅读能力，既考查仔细阅读能力，也考查快速阅读能力，同时还考查大学生通过上下文推测词义和内容的能力。现代外语教育理论认为，阅读能力是增强英语综合应用能力的基础，是提高学生外语文化素质的桥梁。阅读能力的提高，必定会深层次地提高学习者的跨文化交际能力和文化素质。 基于此，为了便于大学生尽快适应大学英语四、六级考试新题型，充分提高他们的阅读理解能力和综合应用能力，我们悉心研究了《大学英语课程教学要求（试行）》和《全国大学英语四、六级考试改革方案（试行）》，组织西安理工大学的资深教师根据其精神和要求精心编写了本系列大学英语阅读教程。本系列教程的大部分内容经过几年的使用，证明了对提高学习者的阅读应试能力、综合应用能力有很大作用。全套书共四册，各册严格按照大学英语难度分级标准设计，每册都包含快速阅读和仔细阅读所涉及的三类题型的练习，是检验学习者阅读能力梯级提高的良师益友。整套系列教材的设计符合外语学习循序渐进的学习原则。 全套书的每册均分为12个单元，每单元均包括4篇阅读文章。第一篇为快速阅读，后附练习题，words& Expressions，Notes以及Key to the Exercises。第二篇为选词填空，后附练习题，words& Expressions，Notes以及Key to the Exercises。第三、四篇为仔细阅读，后附练习题，Words& Expressions，Notes以及Key to the Exercises。 本册为第三册，依照大学英语四级阅读的难度、长度、题材、体裁等要求编写。内容均选自地道的英美报刊文摘，题材涉及面广，内容丰富多彩，题目设计合理规范，是广大大学生提高阅读能力，攻破四级考试大关的得力助手，也是一般英语爱好者扩大知识面，了解英美文化的一个桥梁。 本系列教程在编写过程中得到了西北工业大学出版社的大力支持，在此对出版社领导和编辑表示衷心的感谢！ 由于作者水平等原因，本系列教程中仍可能存在不妥之处，真诚欢迎各位专家和读者提出建议，批评指正，我们将在重印和改版时加以改进。

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书评 为配合《大学英语教学大纲》的实施； 为适应社会对大学英语教学提出的更高要求； 上海外语教育出版社在新世纪之初隆重推出《大学英语》系列教材，为促进我国大学英语教学再作贡献。 集体智慧的结晶：全套教材由复旦大学、北京大学、华东师范大学、中国科技大学、华南理工大学、南京大学、武汉大学、南开大学、中国人民大学、中山大学、西安交通大学、东南大学、华在科技大学、苏州大学等著名院校的资深教授及英语教学专家合作编写而成。 全面合理的课程组合：系列教材由综合、听说、阅读、快速阅读四种教程及语法手册组成。另有前四种教程的预备级教材供起点较低的学生使用。各教程卫相呼应，构成有机整体。 兼顾语言能力与综合应用能力的培养：系列教材以《综合教程》为核心。每单元围绕一个反映当代生活实际的主题展开，配以《听说教程》、《阅读教程》及《快速阅读》，指导学生深入全面地获取并掌握与各主题有关的语言文化知识及丰富的语料，并针对该现实主题充分进行语言综合应用能力的训练。 素质培养与成功应试的双赢策略：各教程均设一定量的类似四、六级考试题型的练习，并将《综合教程》的Test Yourself设计成CET考卷形式，让学生在学习语言知识、训练语言应用能力的同时，熟悉CET考试的形式与要求，以达到素质培养与应准备两不误的目标。

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Margot stood apart from them, from thesechildren who could never remember a timewhen there wasn't rain and rain and rain. Theywere all nine years old, and if there had beena day, seven years ago, when the sun came outfor an hour and showed its face to the stunnedworld, they could not recall. Sometimes, at night, she heard them stir,in remembrance, and she knew they weredreaming and remembering gold or a yellowcrayon or a coin large enough to buy the worldwith. She knew they thought they remembereda warmness, like a blushing in the face, inthe body, in the arms and legs and tremblinghands. But then they always awoke to thetatting drum, the endless shaking down of clearbead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, thegardens, the forests, and their dreams weregone.