《大学体验英语扩展教程》为**“十五”规划教材、新世纪网络课程工程项目《大学体验英语》立体化教材的《扩展教程》第2册。共8个单元,涉及大学生活、社会语言交际等,选文新颖、视角独特,符合大学生的兴趣和口味。《大学体验英语扩展教程》还配有学生的自测试题,可以供学生检查学习效果。

Let Yourself Grieve
Experts agree that a period of grieving is critical. There's no shame in this. Tears aren't a sign thatyou're simply feeling sorry for yourself but are an expression of sadness or emotion that must find an outlet.
And it doesn't matter if the grieving takes a while to surface, as long as it finally finds expression.Consider the case of Donna Kelb. One spring day her 16-year-old son, Cliff, and 15-year-old son, Jimmy,were sanding their boat, preparing it for the season. Suddenly Donna heard a scream. Rushing outside, shefound her two sons lying on the ground near the boat.
Jimmy had gone into the water and returned dripping wet. When he picked up the sander, he waselectrocuted (电击 ). Cliff, knocked to the ground by the current when he tried to grab the tool, recovered.
Donna was so numbed by this tragedy that she didn't cry for weeks —— not even at the funeral. Thenback at work one day, she began to feel dizzy. "Finally I went home, locked myself in my room and justcried," she says. "It was as though this great weight was being lifted from my shoulders."
Face the Challenge
Another obstacle on the road to health after a significant loss can be denial. Instead of facing what hashappened to them, many people try to fill up that empty feeling looking for an escape. The man who rarelytouched a drink will begin hitting the bottle. A woman who watched her weight will overeat. Others —— likeme —— try literally to run away.
After working for bosses all his life, John Jankowski, had always longed to have his own stock-tradingfirm. He finally got the start-up money and did well. Then came a downturn in business, and before longJankowski was in serious financial trouble.
"It was like I'd run into a brick wall and my whole life had been destroyed," he says. With financialresources exhausted and the pressure of a family to support, Jankowski's thoughts turned to escape.
One morning, while on a run, he just kept going. After
…… 音乐首先是一种感受,只有在感受中才能体验音乐,培育音乐感。英语也是一种感受,因此我们也可在感受英语的体验中学习英语,掌握英语。不步入音乐**,我们很难体味音乐的美妙;不涉足英语世界,我们也很难体验英语世界的奥妙。我们的《大学体验英语》选择了一些文体轻松随意、内容亲切现实的英语素材,设计了一些有话可说、有话愿说的练习,使英语学习成为一种学生愿意参加的欢悦经历和体验。不少使用过和正在使用《大学体验英语》的学生,都感到“体验”二字乍听起来新奇,可学后又倍感名副其实。对那些一学英语就感到畏难的同学来说,他们的心理负担在愉快的英语体验中开始缓解;对那些喜欢学习英语的同学来说,他们的英语在新的体验式学习当中得到升华。
同学们和老师们还把自己学习和教课的体验归纳成希望我们修订再版《大学体验英语》的意见,用各种方式告诉了我们。意见提得中肯,我们听得认真,再版修订时我们更加发挥和完善了“体验”的特点。在保持广大师生认可的**版的体系、特质和风貌的基础上,更新了部分教材内容,将《大学体验英语》的修订**放在语言交际训练的编排上,更便于学生去“体验”《大学体验英语》,“体验”英语学习乐趣,“体验”英语能力的不断提高。第二版更好地体现了编写《大学体验英语》时确立的“加强听说、加强表达、加强实用”的三项原则。与此同时,我们还聘请**的一线教师为每册教材编写了至少一课的典型示范教案,帮助教师更好地引导学生去“体验”英语。
此次修订主要涉及如下方面:
1.Passages
根据广大师生的反馈意见,我们删换了少量课文,使全书内容更加符合当代大学生的需求和爱好。
2.Lead-in
适当减少了听写填空的数量,以降低学生理解导入部分的难度,便于学生迅速进入单元内容的学习和训练。
3.CommunicativeTasks
1)提供了更加简明清晰的语境说明,使学生能立即进入交际角色;
2)改编了交际手段提示(Tips),使学生能轻松地找到进行某一交际话题所需要的语言表达手段。力求把语言交际训练变为学习选择使用不同语言表达手段去完成交际任务的实际体验过程。
4.ReadandExplore
加强了对文章理解和运用的综合训练,把阅读理解练习中的单句填空调整为用填空的形式对所读文章内容进行归纳小结,引导学生提高全面理解整篇文章的能力。
5.LanguageFocus
在加强综合理解能力训练的同时,突出了**词语的用法训练,进一步加强和提高学生使用这些基本词语进行语言表达的能力。为此增编了一项形式多样的**词语用法练习,帮助学生在提高英语综合运用能力的同时加强词语用法的训练。

Unit 1 Universities Famous
"The World Needs Yale. We Are Ready!"

Unit 2 Jobs and Careers
Personality and Career Options

Unit 3 Adnertising
Social Criticism of Advertising

Unit 4 Calamities and Rescues
Leave Nothing Unsaid
Self-assessment Test(Unit 1—— Unit 4)

Unit 5 Ways to Success
Bill Gates —— Chairman of Microsoft

Unit 6 Sports and Health
Greg LeMond

Unit 7 Family Ties
My Mother's Gift

Unit 8 Computers and Security
Hack Attack, How You Might Be a Target
Self-assessment Test (Unit 5 —— Unit 8)
Self-assessment Test(Unit 1 —— Unit 8)
Reference Keys to Exercises pages
Translation for Reference pages
Glossary pages
List of Phrases and Expressions
Proper Names
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