新实用英语读写译教程（第2册）（21世纪高职高专精品教材·英语系列；“十二五”职业教育国家规划立项教材）

　　《新实用英语读写译教程》主要体现三个方面的内容，阅读部分培养精读和泛读能力，精读部分含有两篇主题一致的主课文，配以综合训练，泛读部分含有三篇内容主题与主课文主题一致或者接近的阅读短文；写作设计了写作指导和写作练习，主要是应用写作和短文写作，培养学生日常应用能力；翻译部分由翻译技巧和翻译练习组成，训练学生英汉语言转换的能力。本书为读写译教程第2册，话题涉及就医、运动、饮食等贴近学生生活、工作的话题。

　　Part I INTEGRATED COURSE
　　Text A The Development of Reading Habits
　　Silent reading was an activity which was almost unknown to the learned in the early days of the history, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become popular.
　　One should be careful, however, of supposing that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a distraction to others. Examination of reasons connected with the historical development of silent reading shows that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
　　The last century saw a gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, so the number of listeners dropped, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, the popularity of reading became a private activity in such public places as libraries, trains and offices, where reading aloud would disturb other readers in a way.

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