《自主学习导读》丛书每册按单元编写,共四册,分别针对原教材的1—4册的内容编写而成。本书为第3册,内容涉及《21世纪大学英语读写教程(修订版)》之教学**、难点的详解,含课文概要、文章结构、难句英汉释义、**词汇和短语的辨析、句子结构的讲解等,旨在帮助学生更加透彻地理解原文。同时,为帮助学生检查课文学习效果,还为课文练习提供了部分答案。

Unit One
Text A How I Got Smart
Text B Coming of Age
Text C Romance and Reality
Key to the Exercises
Test One
Unit Two
Text A The Titanic Puzzle
Text B Unjust Desserts
Text C Will You Go Out with Me?
Key to the Exercises
Test Two
Unit Three
Text A The Sense of Wonder
Text B The Innocent Eye
Text C If I Were 21
Key to the Exercises
Test Three
Unit Four
Text A College Pressures
Text B College Lectures: Is Anybody Listening?
Text C What Is College for?
Key to the Exercises
Test Four
Unit Five
Text A The ABCs of the U.S.A.: America Seen with European Eyes
Text B American Values and Assumptions
Text C A Foreign Anthropologist's Observation of Americans
Key to the Exercises
Test Five
Unit Six
Text A Every 23 Minutes
Text B Needed: A License to Drink
Text C My Daughter Smokes
Key to the Exercises
Test Six
Unit Seven
Text A So What's So Bad About Being So-So?
Text B Slripping Down to Bare Happiness
Text C Quality of Life Is Much More Than a Job
Key to the Exercises
Test Seven
Unit Eight
Text A Space Politics
Text B Message to the Unknown
Text C Your Future in Space
Key to the Exercises
Test Eight
Keys to the Tests
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