新平台大学英语教程（阅读）

     本书是高等学校十二五规划教材《新平台大学英语教程》系列之一— —《阅读》分册。本教程内容涵盖北京奥运、金融风暴、汶川地震、H1N1 流感等15个单元，每单元含有A篇和B篇，兼顾教学与自学、精读与泛读、深度与广度。注释简洁贴切，注重异国文化的介绍。
     《新平台大学英语教程(阅读)》可作为大学英语四级后的高阶阅读教程，也可供广大英语爱好者、大学英语教师使用。

Unit 1  Earthquakes
  Passage A  A Nation Grieves
  Passage B  Earthquakes
Unit 2  Studying Overseas
  Passage A  Studying at Oxford
  Passage B  Citations in a Foreign Language
Unit 3  The Olympic Games
  Passage A  A Splendid Start -- XXIX Olympic Games Opens in
Beijing
  Passage B  Team Effort -- China Celebrates as the Paralympics
Comes to a Successful Close
Unit 4  Medicine
  Passage A  Accounting for Taste
  Passage B  A/H1NI Flu
Unit 5  Space Exploration
  Passage A  Final Frontier
  Passage B  How Is Space Junk Dodged?
Unit 6  Education
  Passage A  Why Are We ttere?
  Passage B  Women Surpass Men in Advanced Degrees
Unit 7  Finance
  Passage A  Behind the Global Markets 'Meltdown
  Passage B  World Markets Catch a U.S. Cold
Unit 8  Culture
  Passage A  Letter from Birmingham City Jail
  Passage B  The Ironic Principle
Unit 9  The Environment
  Passage A  An Eve to the Sea
  Passage B  Lead Exposure, Brain Damage, and Adult Behavior
Unit 10  Information and Communication Technology
  Passage A  The Future of Mobile Social Networking
  Passage B  In Google Earth, a Service Jor Scanning the Heavens
Unit 11  Travelling
  Passage A  A Naturalist Day in the Tropics
  Passage B  Las Vegas
Unit 12  Philosophy
  Passage A  What Use Is Philosophy?
  Passage B  A Few Words about the Utility of Philosophy
Unit 13  Language and Linguistics
  Passage A  Corpus Colossal
  Passage B  Roots of Language Run Deeper than Speech
Unit 14  Computers and Privacy
  Passage A  Employee Monitoring
  Passage B  Avoiding a Computer Wasteland
Unit 15  Sea Creatures
  Passage A  Why Are Coral Reefs So Colorful
  Passage B  Ocean Magic
Glossary
Key to Exercises