《中级英语阅读教程》是我们在总结多年来短期英语强化培训教学经验的基础上，根据国家教育部“出国留学人员英语强化教学大纲”修订本及我国留学生在英语国家学习、工作、生活的实际需求编写的。它体现了短期外语强化教学“大剂量、高时效、重交际、讲灵活”的十二字教学主导方针，为学生在短期内实现外语水平的迅速提高提供了有效的平台。中级系列教材于九七年面世，共包括阅读、快速阅读、写作、听力、听力测试阅读测试等六本。纵横衔接，循序渐进，有利于学习者全面、快捷地提高英语听说读写各项技能。经过十多年的使用，在征求广大读者以及使用单位师生意见之后，编者感到原有中级阅读教材内容有些陈旧，已不能满足二十一世纪读者的要求。因此，我们重新编写了阅读教材、新编写的教材具有以下特点：内容新颖、覆盖面广《中级英语阅读教程》共编录了25篇文章，内容涉及英语国家的社会、文化、经济、政治、科技、教育等方方面面，既可以帮助读者提高对英语原版文章的阅读理解能力，又可以扩大视野，了解国外风情。
短期英语强化培训教材是西安外国语大学出国留学人员培训部的教师针对出国留学人员、在校大学生、研究生、及广大英语学习爱好者在较短时间内提高英语应用能力而编写的教材。
该系列教材是我们在总结多年来短期英语强化培训教学经验的基础上，根据国家教育部“出国留学人员英语强化教学大纲”修订本及我国留学生在英语国家学习、工作、生活的实际需求编写的。它体现了短期外语强化教学“大剂量、高时效、重交际、讲灵活”的十二字教学主导方针，为学生在短期内实现外语水平的迅速提高提供了有效的平台。
中级系列教材于九七年面世，共包括阅读、快速阅读、写作、听力、听力测试阅读测试等六本。纵横衔接，循序渐进，有利于学习者全面、快捷地提高英语听说读写各项技能。
经过十多年的使用，在征求广大读者以及使用单位师生意见之后，编者感到原有中级阅读教材内容有些陈旧，已不能满足二十一世纪读者的要求。因此，我们重新编写了阅读教材、新编写的教材具有以下特点：
一、内容新颖、覆盖面广
本书共编录了25篇文章，内容涉及英语国家的社会、文化、经济、政治、科技、教育等方方面面，既可以帮助读者提高对英语原版文章的阅读理解能力，又可以扩大视野，了解国外风情。
Unit 1 The Crying Shame
Unit 2 In Grey BritainItS Always Your Fault
Unit 3 Use It or Lose It：Keeping the Brain Young
Unit 4 Confession of a Nicotine Addict
Unit 5 Speaking of English：了he British and the Americans
Unit 6 Spoilt for Choice
Unit 7 Why We Are Youched by the Sound of Music
Unit 8 0lder Parents：Good for Kids？
Unit 9 Embassies for Sale
Unit 10 The Tonguetied Americans
Unit 11 An Open and Shut Marriage
Unit 12 Hurry Sickness
Unit 13 EverythingS Coming Up Rosetinted
Unit 14 Making Parenta！Leave a Right
Unit 15 Fighting AIDS Discrimination
Unit 16 Requiem for the Typewriter
Unit 17 Art Treasures
Unit 18 Putting on Their Game Faces
Unit 19 Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback
Unit 20 The "Moral Rights" of Artists
Unit 21 Seduced in the Supermarket
Unit 22 Why Are You Laughing
Unit 23 Science and the People at Large
Unit 24 Search for the Wolf
Unit 25 Genes Versus Society
Keys to the Exercises
1 Office workers Bob Kearns and Helen Bell were both upset bythe bosss news. They had just been told the news that, despiteearlier promises, they would not be promoted for another sixmonths. The man Kearns shouted at the boss~ the woman Bellcried.
2 The office was abuzz with Kearns reaction. "Did you hearwhat he shouted at the boss？" He was a minor hero for a day.But, if anyone spoke of Bells behaviour, it was in hushed tones.She had committed the unforgivable sin of crying at work.
3 If Dr. William Frey had been there, though, Bell would havebeen the one to be applauded. "A lot of people shout and yell atwork. Thats not very constructive... Its very good for people tocry. Its very important to allow yourself to cry to alleviatestress," says Frey, a biochemist who works at the Dry Eye andTears Research Center in the American state of Minnesota.
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