当您开始阅读本书时,人类已经迈入了二十一世纪。
这是一个变幻难测的世纪,这是一个催人奋进的时代。科学技术飞速发展,知识更替日新月异。希望、困惑、机遇、挑战,随时随地都有可能出现在每一个社会成员的生活之中。抓住机遇,寻求发展,迎接挑战,适应变化的制胜法宝就是学习——依靠自己学习、终生学习。
作为我国高等教育组成部分的自学考试,其职责就是在高等教育这个水平上倡导自学、鼓励自学、帮助自学、推动自学,为每一个自学者铺就成才之路。组织编写供读者学习的教材就是履行这个职责的重要环节。毫无疑问,这种教材应当适合自学,应当有利于学习者掌握、了解新知识、新信息,有利于学习者增强创新意识、培养实践能力、形成自学能力,也有利于学习者学以致用、解决实际工作中所遇到的问题。具有如此特点的书,我们虽然沿用了“教材”这个概念,但它与那种仅供教师讲、学生听,教师不讲、学生不懂,以“教”为中心的教科书相比,已经在内容安排。形式体例、行文风格等方面都大不相同了。希望读者对此有所了解,以便从一开始就树立起依靠自己学习的坚定信念,不断探索适合自己的学习方法,充分利用已有的知识基础和实际工作经验,最大限度地发挥自己的潜能以达到学习的目标。
欢迎读者提出意见和建议。
祝每一位读者自学成功。
全国高等教育自学考试指导委员会
(上册)
Unit 1
Text A How to Be a Successful Language Learner?
Text B Language
语法 词类和句子成分
Unit 2
Text A Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes
Text B Advertising
语法 基本句型
Unit 3
Text A The Atlantic Ocean
Text B The Moon
语法 构词法
Unit 4
Text A Improving Your Memory
Text B Short-term Memory
语法 句子的用途分类
Unit 5
Text A Fallacies about Food
Text B Do Animals Think?
语法 句子的结构分类
Unit 6
Text A Diamonds
Text B The Difference between Plants and Animals
语法 动词时态
Unit 7
Text A Families
Text B The Changing American Family
语法 被动语态
Unit 8
Text A Telecommunication via Satellite
Text B What People Don’t Know about Air
语法 不定式
Unit 9
Text A Learned Words and Popular Words
Text B How Should You Build Up Your Vocabulary?
语法 分词
Unit 10
Text A Scientific Attitudes
Text B Solving Problems Scientifically
语法 动名词
Unit 11
Text A The Great American Garage Sale
Text B American Stores
语法 形容词与副词的比较等级
Unit 12
Text A How Dictionaries Are Made
Text B Reading Provides Necessary Survival Skills
语法 介词与介词短语
Unit 13
Text A Insurance
Text B What Is Money and What Are Its Functions?
语法 冠词的基本用法
Unit 14
Text A The Importance of Being Kind and Polite
Text B Why We Walk in Circles
语法 情态动词
Unit 15
Text A How TV Violence Affects Kids
Text B Why Don’t Girls Think Like Boys?
语法 名词从句
Unit 16
Text A Heart Disease: Treat or Prevent?
Text B Dieting Your Way to Health
语法 定语从句
Unit 17
Text A Panic and Its Effects
Text B Sleepwalking—Fact or Fancy?
语法 状语从句
Unit 18
Text A Why Are Maps Drawn with North at the Top?
Text B You Have a Choice
语法 虚拟语气
Unit 19
Text A Animals at Risk: Who Cares?
Text B The Killer Smogs
语法 倒装句
Unit 20
Text A You Can’t Do It Because It Hurts Nobody
Text B Marriage in Iran and America: A Study in Contrasts
语法 强调句
Unit 21
Text A The Language of Uncertainty
Text B It Never Rains but It Pours!
Unit 22
Text A Current Attitudes toward Physical Fitness
Text B People and Colors
Unit 23
Text A Non-verbal Communication
Text B Body Talk
Unit 24
Text A Saving the Rainforests for Future Generations
Text B Life on the Tundra
Unit 25
Text A American Men Don’t Cry
Text B Stop Worrying Now!
GLOSSARY
LIST OF PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS
(下册)
Text A What Is a Decision?
Text B Secrets of Success at an Interview
语法 as的用法
Unit 2
Text A Black Holes
Text B Worlds within Worlds
Unit 3
Text A Euthanasia: For and Against
Text B Advantage Unfair
语法 一致关系
Unit 4
Text A Slavery on Our Dcorstep
Text B Return of The Chain Gang
Unit 5
Text A The New Music
Text B Different Types of Composers
Unit 6
Text A Improving Industrial Efficiency through Robotics
Text B Predicting Earthquakes
Unit 7
Text A Leisure and Leadership
Text B The Time Message
语法 一些常用介词的基本词义和用法辨异
Unit 8
Text A Jet Lag: Prevention and Cure
Text B Controlling Your Concentration
Unit 9
Text A Aging in European Countries
Text B Children’s Self-esteem
语法 虚拟语气(续)
Unit 10
Text A The Campaign for Election
Text B The American Two-party System
Unit 11
Text A Sacrificed to Science?
Text B Let’s Stop Keeping Pets
英译汉翻译方法介绍 词的翻译(一)
Unit 12
Text A Let Your Mind Wander
Text B To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
英译汉翻译方法介绍 词的翻译(二)
Unit 13
Text A Work, Labor, and Play
Text B The Workman’s Compensation
英译汉翻译方法介绍 句子的翻译(一)
Unit 14
Text A The Teacher’s Last Shocking Lesson
Text B The Seeds of Wrath
英译汉翻译方法介绍 句子的翻译(二)
Unit 15
Text A The Computer and The Poet
Text B Changes to Come in U. S . Education
英译汉翻译方法介绍 句子的翻译(三)
GLOSSARY
LIST OF PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS