《21世纪大学英语应用型长篇阅读》着力加强学生在浩瀚的知识海洋中提取**信息的能力的训练,以及大学英语四、六级考试中长篇阅读部分的应试能力和技巧。当然,每单元习题还包括了2013年新增的段落翻译题型,以及原有的选词填空和短文写作。

Unit 1 College Life
Passage 1 University. There's No Better Place to Be at the Age of 18
Passage 2 What Was It Like to Be a University Student in the 1930s?
Passage 3 American University Students Work Too Much —— At Jobs, Not School

Unit 2 Language Learning
Passage 1 How I Became a UN Interpreter
Passage 2 What Makes a Language Attractive —— Its Sound, National Identity or Familiarity?
Passage 3 Wanting It Enough, Why Motivation Is the Key to Language Learning?

Unit 3 Family
Passage 1 Minding the Nurture Gap
Passage 2 In Sweden, the Men Can Have It All
Passage 3 My Family Values

Unit 4 Pop Culture
Passage 1 WeOhat Striving for Global Expansion
Passage 2 Pop Culture in the Age of Obama
Passage 3 Plastic Surgery in Korea

Unit 5 Life Philosophy
Passage 1 The Moral Bucket List
Passage 2 What Your Disease Tells You About Life
Passage 3 Does Everything Happen for a Reason?

Unit 6 No Cross No Crown
Passage 1 Rejections Oan Be Blessings in Disguise
Passage 2 Failure or Success —— It's a Grand Illusion
Passage 3 The Wisdom of Mistakes

Unit 7 Technology
Passage 1 Could You Do a Day Without Technology?
Passage 2 Can Students Have Too Much Tech?
Passage 3 How Today's Computers Weaken Our Brain

Unit 8 Planet
Passage 1 Why I'm Volunteering to Die on Mars
Passage 2 Can Rogue Planets Support Life?
Passage 3 Biodiversity —— Hang on
Appendix Keys and Answers