英語閱讀教程 第一冊（簡體書）

《展望(Prospect)全國高等院校英語專業系列精品教材:英語閱讀教程(第1冊)》由對外經濟貿易大學出版社出版。

Unit 1 College Education 1
Text A Why Go to College? 3
Text B The True Story of a Young Man 8
Text C What Good Is a College Education Anyway? 10
Unit 2 Campus Life 13
Text A U.S. Campus Life: Binational Students Face Big Cultural Gap 16
Text B American Classroom Customs 21
Text C Universities Branch Out 23
Unit 3 Pursuit of Dreams 27
Text A Writing Well-Be Creative and Critical 30
Text B Ted Turner: His Life and Career 35
Text C Good Behavior and Hard work Needed for Dreams to Come True 37
Unit 4 Hobbies and Interests 41
Text A How American Kids Spend Their Leisure Time? 44
Text B The Most Popular Hobbies among Young People 49
Text C Find Your Own Hobby 51
Unit 5 Tourist Attractions 55
Text A Yellowstone National Park 58
Text B The Great Wall of China 64
Text C Top Ten China Ancient Towns 66
Unit 6 Travel 69
Text A Ecotourism 72
Text B Johnny the Explorer 77
Text C The 11 Things I Learned from 11 Months in Spain 79
Unit 7 How to Succeed in Life 83
Text A Gratitude Makes a Difference 86
Text B Go for the Gold 91
Text C As Dream Comes True 94
Unit 8 Celebrity Anecdotes 97
Text A Princess Diana's Visit to Angola 100
Text B This Is Why Jordan Is Jordan 104
Text C Winston Churchill: His Other Life 107
Unit 9 Animals 111
Text A The Training of Dogs 114
Text B Do Animals Think? 118
Text C My Cat Sitting Adventure 121
Unit 10 Sports 125
Text A Sports and Youth 128
Text B Sports and Hunting 132
Text C Michigan State Is Counting on Good Sportsmanship from Fans 135
Unit 11 Marriage 139
Text A Romantic Love 142
Text B The Role of Men and Women 147
Text C My Cyber Love 149
Unit 12 Attachment Between Children and Parents 153
Text A Facing Death of Family Members 155
Text B Rites of Passage Suddenly There Come Times When Everything Is Different 160
Text C What Is Love and Logic for Parents? 162
Unit 13 Culture 167
Text A Amsterdam: The Largest City in the Netherlands 170
Text B American Hospitality 174
Text C London Taxi Drivers 177
Unit 14 The Development of Business 181
Text A Iceberg Water 184
Text B Nobody Can Do It Like McDonald's 188
Text C The Candy Business of Milton Hershey 191

In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities havebecome more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world whorepresent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad toprepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of aninterconnected world and collaborative research programs to advance science for thebenefit of all humanity.
Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movementacross borders. Over the past three decades the number of students studying abroad eachyear has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent. Today foreign students earn 30 percent ofthe doctoral degrees awarded in the U.S. and 38 percent of those in the U.K. And thenumber crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of theundergraduates at America's best institutions and 10 percent of all undergraduates in theU.K. In the U.S., 20 percent of the newly hired professors in science and engineering areforeign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top researchuniversities received their graduate education abroad.
Universities also encourage students to spend their undergraduate years in anothercountry. In Europe, over 140 000 students participate in the Erasmus program annually,taking courses for credit in one of 2 200 participating institutions across the continent. Inthe U.S., institutions are providing students with internships abroad. Yale and Harvard haveled the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internshipopportunity.
Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involvessourcing portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and HowardHughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a genetic research center atShanghai's Fudan University, where employees and graduate students work in laboratoryseminars with scientists from both campuses. As a result, Xu's Yale lab is more productivewith lower costs of conducting research in China, and Chinese graduate students geton-the-job training from a world-class scientist in return.
With its strength in science, the U.S. has consistently led the world in thecommercialization of major new technologies. The link between university-based scienceand industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: Silicon Valley wasintentionally created by Stanford University, and Route 128 outside Boston has long housedcompanies spun off from MIT and Harvard. Around the world, governments haveencouraged copying of this model, perhaps most successfully in Cambridge, whereMicrosoft and scores of other leading software companies have set up shop around theuniversity.