新世界英語閱讀教程(3)（簡體書）

《新世界大學英語系列教材:閱讀教程3》內容簡介：“新世界大學英語系列教材”是由譯林出版社在原版教材Hemispheres的基礎上，組織國內外知名英語專家，嚴格按照《大學英語課程教學要求》編寫的。本系列教材選材新穎、內容豐富、理念先進、體系完備，是一套集讀、寫、譯、視、聽，說為一體，特色鮮明的大學英語立體化教材。體現基礎性、科學性和時代性。本教材有助于鞏固并拓展學生的英語基礎知識和能力；內容編排循序漸進，深入淺出，符合語言學習的規律和大學英語教學改革的最新趨勢。堅持“以學生為本”的教學理念。所選話題貼近學生生活，兼顧知識性與趣味性。同時，有機滲透人文主義教育，注重培養學生健康的人格。教學內容融“語言知識.應用技能、跨文化交際和學習策略”為一體。所選文章大多來自當代英語，題材廣泛、體裁多樣、語料真實、語言地道。教材體系完備。本系列教材由《讀寫教程》、《視聽說教程》和《閱讀教程》三個系列組成。各系列相互補充，彼此關聯，配合使用，可有效提高教學水平。除學生用書外，本系列教材還配有教師用書、助學光盤、電子課件、試題庫、網絡教程、教學資源庫等構成了完備的一體化教學解決方案。

《新世界大學英語系列教材:閱讀教程3》為2011年江蘇省高等學校精品教材,新世界大學英語系列教材之一。

Unit One Language
Mini-lecture
運籌帷幄，成竹在胸——閱讀計劃的制定
Guided Reading
What Is Language?
Reflective Reading
The Bilingual Bain
Self-access Reading
1. Idioms: Piece of Cake or Hard Nut to Crack?
2. Teen Talk: Dya Hang with the Slang?
3. Are Women Really Better at Language?
Inquiry Reading
Foreign Languages Fade in Class ——except Chinese

Unit Two Ambition
Mini-lecture
知已知心、取悅于讀——閱讀的心理過程
Guided Reading
Ambition and the Power of the Mind
Reflective Reading
Childhood Dreams, Adult Reality
Self-access Reading
1. Sweet Dreams
2. Ambition Is Just a Word until You Act
3. To Save the Chinese Dream
Inquiry Reading
Balancing Ambition with Contentment

Unit Three Adulthood
如何轉動你的眼——閱讀中的視幅
Mini-lecture
Guided Reading
How Many Roads Must a Man Walk down before You Call Him a Man?
Reflective Reading
Second Semester: a Rite of Passage to Adulthood
Self-access Reading
1. Emerging Adulthood
2. Managing Personal Finance: A Cramming Course for College Students
3. Growing Older Is Mandatory, Growing up Is 0ptiona|
Inquiry Reading
Students, Their Parents See Adulthood as Far Off

Unit Four Society
勻速運動VS變速運動——閱讀的節奏感
Mini-lecture
Guided Reading
A Warning for Human Society
Reflective Reading
Will China Rule the World?
Self-access Reading
1. Is Society Embracing Self-destruction?
2. Getting Old, Faster and Faster
3. Google: Friend or Foe?
Inquiry Reading
Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China

Unit Five Technology
Unit Six Fashion
Unit Seven Entertainment
Unit Eight Values
Key to the Questions
Self-assessment Table

A language is a living substance, which evolves under the influence of different factors. Being very flexible, English language constantly enriches its vocabulary with the words invented by the language speakers, making it more colorful with new idiomatic expressions, and at times refills its stocks with the borrowings and neologisms (新詞). English just amazes us by its extraordinary linguistic diversity.
It is a language rich in exceptions and spelling traps, where almost every rule is valid 90% of the time. English is a language with a vast idiomatic basis, which makes its learning very exciting and intriguing. There are about 4,000 idioms used in the American English. Wikipedia suggests that "to even explain what they mean needs about 2,000 words of the vocabulary".
Idioms are derived from the culture of the nation and from day-to-day life. In real context, idioms explain themselves: 9 times out of 10 times, idioms carry their own explanation. The main function of idioms is to paraphrase what is going on, and what is being said.