《新编英语泛读教程》供高等学校英语专业一、二年级这教学使用。学生学了这套教材,可以增加英语**文化背景知识,扩大英语词汇,提高英语阅读能力。 根据《高等不校英语专来基础阶段英语教学大纲》,泛读课与综合英语课不同,属单项技能训练课,泛读课的特征体现在“泛”与“读”两个方面。就“泛”而言,教材选用语言材料选用用语言材料的内容呈百科知识性,包括社会生活各个方面。同时,语言材料的文体呈多样性,既有文学作品,又有记叙文、说明文、议论文、新闻、广告等语言风格不同的解准确性。加快阅读速度。泛读课的阅读量大。这亦是与综合英语课的区别之一。学生通过大量阅读,逐渐扩大词汇量。泛读课应帮助生活在信息爆炸时代的学生会通过阅读快速、准确地获取并处理信息。
《新编英语泛读教程》所选用语言材料的内容涉及英语**的社会、政治、经济、文化、历史、新闻、宗教、体育、医药、文学、风土人情、科普知识等各个领域。每一���元分三个部分。
**部分要求在课堂上处理,学生不要预习
词汇测试所列单词选自Section A 的课文,大多为有可能妨碍理解的生词或重要的常用词 。
课文根据难易程度,由浅入深编排。
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"The library soon showed its usefulness and was copied by other towns.The libraries grew and reading became fashionable.In a few years,strangers observed that our people were better instucted and more knowing than people of the same economic circumstances generally are in other countries.P25

1 Reading Strategies
Text:Why Read Faster
Text:Common Faults and Eye Movements
2 Education
Text:It's Never Too Late for Success
Text:The Education of Benjamin Franklin
3 Body Language
Text:Signals Without words
Text:The Secret Language of Barrier Signals
4 Animals
Text:Little Brother of the Wolf
Text:Marmosets:The World's Smallest Monkeys
5 History
Text:Some Therories of History
Text:Abraham Lincoln Again
6 Language
Text:Vocabulary Change
Text:Give Up Six Words and Change Your Life
7 Space
Text:Has the Bright Promise of the Space Program Faded?
Text:Probing the Universe
8 Women
Text:Women in Education,Sports and Media
Text:Women In Science
9 Cities
Text:The Unforgettable Hong Kong
Text:London
10 Coss-Cultural Communication
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11 Information Tetrieval
12 Environment
13 Medicine
14 Evolution
15 Transportation
16 Time
17 Television
18 Poetry