《英语阅读技巧与实践》系高等院校英语专业阅读课系列教材,2001年获**级教学成果二等奖;2005年获中国大学出版社协会**教材一等奖;2006年被教育部确定为普通高等教育“十一五”**级规划教材。

PAssAGE 1
Yellow FeVer
[1] Hopes for a victory over the diseas-of yellow fever were raised stillfurther when one of a team of Rockefeller doctors,studying yellow fever inGhana,scored a major victory in the summer of 1927.Visiting a village wherethere was an outbreak,the doctor took blood from a good-looking young African,Asibi by name④。who had a mild touch of fever.The doctor now injected some ofhis blood into four animals including one monkey that had just arrived from India.Only the monkey went down with yellow fever@.For the first time the virus ofthe disease had been passed into an animal other than man.Having animals thatcould be given the disease opened the way to new 1ines of experiments.
[2]The Asibi virus was kept going from monkey to monkey.In this way theygradually developed a virus whose power to make people ill had been greatlylowered.But still it had enough strength to develop resistance in human beings.So from the blood of a West African a vaccine was finally developed that nowprotects millions of people from yellow fever.
[3]Such,then,was the point reached in 1932.Yellow fever appeared to be onthe way out,at least in the Americas⑥.Then there occurred an outbreak in a country district in Brazil.This was strange,since yellow fever had always been believed to be a disease of the city,one that people caught by being bitten in their own homes by the city type of mosquitoes,bred within a hundred yards of their houses.Something much more surprising,however,was in store for the members of the Brazilian Yellow Fever Service,when they reached the-area.There was yellow fever in the district,without doubt.The Service found it was present by all the standard tests.But there were no city-type mosquitoes,not one.
[4] One morning a doctor went into the j ungle with some woodcutters.Hewanted to collect mosquitoes,but they weren't biting.The doctor was just readyto leave,when one of the men shouted that a tree w
…… 阅读对于学习语言的重要性是不言而喻的。古人有言,“读书破万卷,下笔如有神”,指的就是阅读对掌握语言、提高写作能力所起的作用。另一说“读万卷书,行万里路”,也包含着类似的意思。至于“青灯黄卷”、“寒窗苦读”,则除了倡导发愤学习,还说明了对大量阅读的重视。
语言学习是相通的。大量阅读对掌握外语也同样重要。阅读有助于培养语感。对一种语言的感受,是建立在对该语言的频繁接触上的。对在母语环境里的外语学习者来说,可以说没有大量阅读就不可能产生对所学外语的语感,而没有语感,则只能得语言之皮毛。大量阅读也有助于增加语汇和表达方式,无论是本国语还是外语,我们所掌握的用以书面传递思想的词汇和句法,大多是通过阅读得来的,书读得越多,掌握的表达方式也越多,表达能力也越强。阅读对写作所起的作用更为直接。通常,写不好的根本原因,除了思想贫乏、逻辑混乱等内在智力因素外,主要还应归结于读得太少,没有从阅读别人的文章中学得自己写作所需的语汇和表达方式。阅读还能丰富我们的文化知识,培根就认定“读书使人充实”,而掌握有关**的文化背景知识,对外语学习者来说尤为重要。一篇域外的文章,一部外国的小说,都会向我们展示一个新的世界,都有助于我们对其语言的了解和领悟。阅读对学习外语的重要性是怎么强调也不会过分的。
如果把英语学习中的阅读分为精读和泛读两类的话,那么现时人们的注意力往往过多地置于精读,而忽略了泛读。精读不能说不重要,古人也有“熟读唐诗三百首,不会吟诗也会吟”之类强调精读之说。问题在于我们大多着眼于试验田式的小块文章上的精耕细作’’(不厌其烦地释义,反反复复地解释语法,不无炫耀地解析词汇等等),而把“大量阅读”放在极其次要的地位。虽然设有泛读课,但大多泛读不“泛”,阅读量极其有限,说到底不过是精读的变种。尽管对一小篇课文的研读可以把文中的词汇与句式搞得滚瓜烂熟,对英语学习也有所帮助。

PASSAGE 1 Yellow Fever
PASSAGE 2 Intelligence in Animals
PASSAGE 3 Electronic Burglar Alarms
PASSAGE 4 America's New Recession
PASSAGE 5 The Discovery of a Sunken Ship
PASSAGE 6 Man Hunters of the USA
PASSAGE 7 Frank Turner
PASSAGE 8 The Interaction of Body and Mind
PASSAGE 9 The Land and the People
PASSAGE 10 Supermarkets
PASSAGE 11 Sex on the Job
PASSAGE 12 From the Other Side of the Generation Gap
PASSAGE 13 A Virtual University
PASSAGE 14 WTO Finds US Trade Damaged by EU Beef Import Ban
PASSAGE 15 Two Major Parties in Britain
PASSAGE 16 Reeds, Pens and Beyond
PASSAGE 17 Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth
PASSAGE 18 How Hurricanes Get Their Names
PASSAGE 19 Indo-European Languages
PASSAGE 20 Death.a Part of Life
PASSAGE 21 Tame Volcanoes
PASSAGE 22 The Secret Language of Barrier Signals
PASSAGE 23 The Birth of Jesus
PASSAGE 24 The Man with the Jade Mask
PASSAGE 25 The Piece of String
PASSAGE 26 Robert Baden-Powell, Secret Agent
PASSAGE 27 Stuck on Stamps
PASSAGE 28 The American Tax System
PASSAGE 29 We Are Not a Nation of Tax Cheats
PASSAGE 30 Insurance
PASSAGE 31 Investment Banking Companies
PASSAGE 32 Weather Catastrophe-Then and Now?
PASSAGE 33 Bittersweet Companions
PASSAGE 34 Safeguarding Life
PASSAGE 35 The Red Data Books
PASSAGE 36 The First Ecologists
PASSAGE 37 Twins,Genes and Environment
PASSAGE 38 The Antler Riddle
PASSAGE 39 Beneath the Canopy
PASSAGE 40 Paralinguistic Communication
APPENDIX Keys, Notes and Vocabulary
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1.根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》编写,具有可靠性;2.以阅读技巧为主线,编排合理,具有**性;3.从事实性阅读、评判性阅读、报刊阅读到鉴赏性阅读,循序渐进,具有科学性;4.体裁多样,题材广泛,具有可读性;5.选材精粹,课堂实用,具有操作性;6.题型丰富,练习适量,具有针对性。