《英語閱讀（1）》是高等院校英語專業(yè)基礎(chǔ)階段閱讀課程使用的系列教材，也適用于非英語專業(yè)學(xué)生和中級(jí)英語學(xué)習(xí)者。
《英語閱讀（1）》循序漸進(jìn)地構(gòu)建了系統(tǒng)的多元化人文知識(shí)體系，時(shí)代性、經(jīng)典性、哲理性、學(xué)術(shù)性、世界性并重，涵蓋社會(huì)、政治、經(jīng)濟(jì)、文化、歷史、新聞、宗教、體育、醫(yī)藥、文學(xué)、風(fēng)土人情、科普知識(shí)等各個(gè)領(lǐng)域。
英英注釋文章的詞匯、句子、語法、修辭、文化等知識(shí)點(diǎn)，便于學(xué)生擴(kuò)大詞匯量，快速理解課文，提高英語思維能力。
練習(xí)題型多樣化，旨在加強(qiáng)學(xué)生的語言基本功訓(xùn)練，提高他們的閱讀理解能力與語言應(yīng)用能力。書后附有難題練習(xí)的參考答案，供教師和學(xué)生參考。
課堂教學(xué)與課外拓展閱讀有機(jī)整合。教材介紹了一些有效的閱讀方法，每單元配有與主題相關(guān)的英語同步閱讀拓展資源，促使閱讀教學(xué)朝著自主式學(xué)習(xí)方向發(fā)展。
《英語閱讀》系列教材讓學(xué)習(xí)者徜徉在英語世界的廣闊天地中，采擷芬芳，咀嚼英華，并在英文氛圍中潛移默化，享受閱讀帶來的樂趣。
Unit One A Guide to College Life and Study
1. High School Versus College Life
2. College Students and Homesickness
3. Critical Mistakes Made by Most College Freshmen
4. How to Be a Successful Language Learner?
5. The SQ3R Method
6. Efficient Reading Strategies
Unit Two Learning and Reading
1. Selected Readings from The Analects
2. An Exhortation to Learning （excerpts）
3. Study
4. Professional Skill
5. The Delights of Books
6. Companionship of Books
7. It is Never Too Late for Success
Unit Three People
1. Marie Curie
Introduction
Marie Curie： A Biography （excerpts）
University Life
Marriage and Home Life
2. Helen Keller
Introduction
The Story of My Life （excerpts）
Meeting with My Teacher Anne Sullivan
Overcoming the Difficulty
College Life
Unit Four Arts
1. The Holly land of the American Movie Industry —— Hollywood
2. The Academy Awards
3. The Most Influential Film Festivals
4. The Big Six —— Top 6 Major Film Studios in the Movie Business
5. The Emmy Awards
6. The Grammy Awards
7. Audrey Hepburn
Unit Five Polities
1. China showcases strength， vitality on 60th founding anniversary
2. After Shenzhou Success， China Looks to the Future
3. Tibet celebrates Serfs Emancipation Day
4. 85，000 Iraqis killed in almost 5 years of war
Unit Six Cyberculture
1. Websites Connect Donors to Specific Needs
2. Kids Embrace the Spirit of Giving
3. Woven deep into our lives
4. Internet addiction made an official disorder in China
Unit Seven Fables， Folktales， Fairy Tales
1. The Golden Axe
2. Three Apples
3. The Shepherd Boy
4. The Most Incredible Thing
5. The Happy Prince
Unit Eight Adventure Novels
1. Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Plot Overview
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Plot Overview
3. The Little Prince
Plot Overview
Unit Nine World History I
1. Origins of the Earth and Humans
2. The Middle East
3. Ancient Egypt
4. Ancient Greece
Unit Ten Poems
1. Tagores Poems
Introduction
The Home
Benediction
On the Seashore
The Gift
Strong Mercy
Lotus
Lamp of Love
2. Dickinsons Poems
Introduction
“Hope” is the thing with feathers
If I can stop one Heart from breaking
Im nobody！ Who are you?
The Brain —— is wider than the Sky
Success is counted sweetest
Key to the Exercises
Appendix 1 Conventions for Capitalizing Words of English News Headlines
Appendix 2 Timeline of World History （I）
Websites
References
In Beijing， Serfs Emancipation Day became the hottest topic among students in the Tibet Middle School. Many students hummed Q the old song“Freed serfs sing in happiness”.
My grandparents were both serfs，“said an eleventh-grader Dawa Dorje.”
They told me that they tied stones to their feet as shoes， and my granny became blind because she had no money to cure her eye illness， she said.
Currently there are 810 Tibetan students in the school， whose accommodation， clothes， health care were all funded by the government.
Main celebration for the holiday was held on the square in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa， capital city of Tibet， at 10 a.m.
The gathering was presided over in both Tibetan and Mandarin by Qiangba Puncog， chairman of the regional government of Tibet， who was dressed in a traditional Tibetan robe.
It was attended by about 13，280 people.
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