综合大学英语(8)

章节摘录

　　During this century the art of medicine has progressed at a fast clip. famous British surgeon Joseph Lister announced around 1900 a “foreseeable end” to human disease. Unfortunately， he was wrong， and hosts of viruses have taken anew lease on life （our life）， helped along in their travels by our own frantic flying all over the globe. Wilhelm Roentgens x-rays， which won the first Nobel Prize in physics， in 1901， got us off to a splendid start; the gap between the old and the new medicine can be measured by contemporary comments that it might become possible to photograph the human soul. It didnt， but by 1950 x-rays had saved the lives of some 30 million children， according to the estimate of a later Nobel-winning physicist， Arthur Compton. Sulfa drugs came around 1940， followed by penicillin and other antibiotics and the present armory of electronic and chemical tools to fight afflictions that earlier could be mitigated but not cured. The increase in life expectancy tells itmfrom forty=nine years in 1900 to seventy- five years or more in the late 1990s. The effect on individual， adults is less startling， because the drop in infant mortality in the West is the primary cause of the increase. （It has dropped from one in ten to less than one in a hundred during the first year of life.） But a man of forty -，viii live about five years longer now than he would have in 1950， and he is healthier all along. The state of health of an eighty-year-old man now is comparable to the state of health of a seventy-year-old man twenty years ago.

前言

　　《综合大学英语》（Comprehensive College English）是为高校英语专业编写的一套精读课系列教材，共分8册，分别用于英语专业一至四年级的八个学期。　　本教程编写的原则和指导思想是我国新修订的《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》，在教材的总体设计与编写体例上力求按阶段（即：基础阶段1-4册；高年级阶段5-8册）实现新大纲规定的加强学生语言基本功和综合交际能力的目的要求。基础阶段1-4册教材系统传授语言基础知识，继承以往精读课教材的优良传统，对学生进行全面的、严格的基本技能训练。在注意增强学生实际运用语言能力的同时，注意培养学生良好的学习习惯和学习方法，培养他们的逻辑思维能力和独立工作能力，丰富他们的文化知识，增强对文化差异的敏感性，为高年级的学习打下较扎实的基础。高年级阶段的5-8册则继续强化基本功训练，进一步扩大知识面，把重点放在培养学生的语言综合技能、提高人文知识修养与语言交际能力上，使学生逐步成长为能适应新世纪要求的合格的外语专门人才。但愿通过我们大家不断的共同努力，这套系列教程能在这方面作出一点应有的贡献。　　本教程由四川大学、四川师范大学、电子科技大学、西南交通大学、西南财经大学和华西医科大学等校的外语院系通力合作，历时四年编成初稿，其中第1册、第2册、第3册和第5册的初稿本曾先后在四川大学、四川师范大学、华西医科大学和电子科技大学的英语专业本科班进行过多次试用，受到师生们的广泛好评。尽管如此，由于编者能力有限，这套系列教程可能还存在不少缺点和谬误，恳请专家和各位师友、同学不吝指正。　　在本教程的编写过程中，自始至终都得到外研社的领导、责任编辑以及外研社西南信息中心各位师友的大力帮助和悉心指导，值此正式出版印行之际，谨向他们表示衷心的感谢。

书籍目录

Unit OneText A: Notes on the Twentieth CenturyText B: The Long PeaceUnit TwoText A: Beyond the Information RevolutionText B: The Age of Social TransformationUnit ThreeText A: How the World WorksText B: Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and NationsUnit FourText A: Who Owns Intelligence?Text B: How Do You Feel?Unit FiveText A: A Free Mans WorshipText B: “The Process of Distillation: Getting to the Essence of Things”Unit SixText A: Educating DemocracyText B: How Not to Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character EducationUnit SevenText ka A Slight Sound at EveningText B: The Nowhere ManUnit EightText A: PeopleText B: BloodstainsUnit NineText A: Waking the Dead: The Biography Boom in AmericaText B: A Life of LearningUnit TenText A: Chalk and CheeseText B: Is Britain European?Unit ElevenText A: The War Against BoysText B: Men——Tomorrows Second SexUnit TwelveText A: The New Generation GapText B: Whats Behind the Growing Generation Gap?Glossary

作者简介

　　《综合大学英语8》是一套供高等院校英语专业本科学生使用的精读教材，共分8册。其中1-4册供基础阶段使用，5-8册供高年级阶段使用。本系列教程的主要特色：基础阶段（1-4册）系统传授语言基础知识，注重对学生进行全面严格的基本技能训练；着重增强学生运用语言的能力，培养良好的学习习惯和学习方法；扩大学生的知识面，增强对文化差异的敏感性。高年级阶段（5-8册）继续加强基本功的训练，进一步扩大知识面，提高人文知识的修养强化学生的语言综合技能，巩固和提高语言交际能力。

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