大学英语分级阅读-第四册

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　　3 How much does this matter？ More than words can say. There is no other single force causing as much measurable hardship and human misery in this country as the collapse of marriage. It hurts children， it reduces mothers' financial security， and it has landed with particular devastation on those who can bear it least： the nation's underclass.　　4 The poor and the middle class are very different in the ways they have forsaken marriage. The poor are doing it by uncoupling parenthood from marriage， and the financially secure are doing it by blasting apart their unions if the principals aren't having fun anymore.　　5 The growing tendency of the poor to have children before marriage—the vast majority of unmarried women having babies are undereducated and have low incomes—is a catastrophic approach to life， as three Presidents in a row have tried to convince them. Bill Clinton's welfare-to-work program encouraged marriage， George W. Bush spent millions to promote marriage， and Barack Obama has spoken powerfully on the need for men to stay with their children： "We need fathers to step up， to realize that their job does not end at conception； that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one."　　6 The reason for these appeals to lasting unions is simple： on every single significant outcome related to short-term wellbeing and long-term success， children from intact， two-parent families outperform those from single-parent households. Longevity， drug abuse， school performance and dropout rates， teen pregnancy， criminal behavior and incarceration-if you can measure it， a sociologist has； and in all cases， the kids living with both parents drastically outperform the others.　　7 Few things hamper a child as much as not having a father at home. "As a feminist， I didn't want to believe it，" says Maria Kefalas， a sociologist who studies marriage and family issues and co-authored a seminal book on low-income mothers called Promises I Can Keep： Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.　　"Women always tell me， 'I can be a mother and a father to a child，' but it's not true." Growing up without a father has a deep psychological effect on a child. "The mom may not need that man，" Kefalas says， "but her children still do."　　8 The consequences for more-affluent kids tend to be far less devastating than for poor ones； they are less likely to become teenage parents and high school dropouts. But children of divorced middle-class parents do less well-in school and at college compared with underprivileged kids from two-parent households.　　9 There's a 'sleeper effect' to divorce that we are just beginning to understand，" says David Blankenhorn， president of the Institute for American Values. It's dismissive of the human experience， says Blankenhorn， to suggest that kids don't suffer， extraordinarily， from divorce： "Children have a primal need to know who they are， to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection， that sense of identity， is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal."　　……

书籍目录

Unit 1 Modern Marriage in America
　Text A Is There Hope for the American Marriage？
　Text B Who Needs Marriage？ A Changing Institution
　Supplementary Exercises
Unit 2 Education for Better Survival
　Text A How to Raise a Global Kid
　Text B Colleges Now Offering Education in Disaster
　Supplementary Exercises
Unit 3 Technology for Better Life？
　Text A Your Brain on Tech： How Being Connected 24/7 Affects
Us
　Text B Steve Jobs
　Supplementary Exercises
Unit 4 No Tree has Ever Grown to
　Text A Lehman's Fall： The What-Ifs Linger
　Text B She'll be right
　Supplementary Exercises
Unit 5 Acceptance of Plastic Surgery and HIV Tattoos
　Text A A ‘Necessary Vanity' （excerpted）
　Text B Tattoos： A journey of HIV acceptance
　Supplementary Exercises
Unit 6 Unlocking the Secrets
　Text A The Union's Spy Game Undermined America
　Text B Presidential Debates
　Supplementary Exercises
Unit 7 Empathy vs Fidelity： What Shall We Look for？
　Text A Here we go again
　Text B Here is thy sting
　Supplementary Exercises
Unit 8 Gender Troubles
　Text A Gender stereotypes easing more for girls than boys
　Text B The End of Men （excerpted）
　Supplementary Exercises
　Key
　Reference

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《高等教育"十二五"部委级规划教材:大学英语分级阅读(第4册)》内容涵盖面广，从学习者实际出发，把英语学习中接触较多、需求广泛的题材编辑为八大板块，分别以文化、教育、科技、经济、医药卫生、政治、法律和生物等领域的相关文章为主题构成全书的八个单元。每个单元配有一定的翻译、阅读理解和完型填空，帮助学生巩固和消化阅读材料的内容。

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