[内容简介]
     《当代研究生英语阅读教程2》内容简介：语言文化知识的获取离不开真实的语言学习环境。中国学生在本土学习英语，要想创建真实的语言环境并非易事，而阅读是语言和文化学习的重要手段和途径。通过阅读，学生可以身临其境，获取大量语言知识，从而发展和提升英语综合应用能力。与此同时，通过广泛接触内容丰富、文体不同的文章，学生会进一步扩大和掌握英语词汇，熟悉各种语言现象和写作技巧，全面提升整体英语水平。为此，我们特地编写了《当代研究生英语阅读教程》。该教程内容经过严格的筛选和科学的设计，在选材、内容编排、练习设计等方面体现以下特点。既注重时代性，又突出经典性注重时代性。本教程很多文章选自近年国外权威的报刊、杂志，具有鲜明的时代感，主要体现在选择当今社会的热门话题，例如：能源危机、环境保护、国际经济、金融海啸、器官再造等，主题丰富，语言地道，既体现时代特色，又注重文化内涵及思想深意，反映时代发展，展现语言魅力。
[目录]
Unit 1 Food and Diet
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Food: Past and Present
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 A New Diet Equation
Passage 2 Diet, Nutrition and Healthy Living
Passage 3 Cancer and Diet

Unit 2　Archaeology
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Excavating an Ancient Egyptian Tomb
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Troy Uncovered
Passage 2 Pompeii: Buried in Ages
Passage 3 Machu Picchu Archaeological Sites

Unit 3 Medicine
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
A Brief History of Medicine
Part　Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth}
Passage 1 The Controversy over Human Cloning
Passage 2 Natural Medicine ?? The Way Home
Passage 3 How to Build a Body Part

Unit 4 Space
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
When Galaxies Collide
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Transient Lunar Phenomena
Passage 2 Water, Flash Floods and New Possibilities for Life on
Passage 3 The Salyut Experience

Unit 5 Histoy
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Rome: From Republic to Empire
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Anglo-Saxon England
Passage 2 The Enlightenment
Passage 3 Victorian Era

Unit 6 Biography
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
An American Storyteller: Ernest Hemingway
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Johannes Kepler
Passage 2 Napoleon ?? Downfall and Legend
Passage 3 Tchaikovsky and Madame von Meek

Unit 7 Leisure Reading(Ⅲ)
Passage 1 Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Passage 2 The Trial of O. J. Simpson
Passage 3 That Lean and Hungry Look
Passage 4 An Excerpt from Jane Eyre

Unit 8 Economics
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
What Is Economics?
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Passage 2 Karl Marx's Economic Conceptions
Passage 3 John Maynard Keynes

Unit 9 Materlals Sclence
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
A Brief History of Materials
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 The Age of Superstuff
Passage 2 Superconductor Search: a Race and an Obsession
Passage 3 The Future of Nanomaterials

Unit 10 Philosophy
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
What Is Philosophy?
Part　Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Socratic Method
Passage 2 Rene Descartes' Dualism and Rationalism
Passage 3 Brief Introduction to Kant

Unit 11 Law
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension ( Skimming and Scanning)
An Introduction to Law
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Origins of Common Law
Passage 2 The American Jury System: Standing in the Way of Justice?
Passage 3 Nuremberg Trials

Unit 12 Education
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
The University and Society
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Set Universities Free
Passage 2 Requirements for Completion in U.S. Graduate Schools
Passage 3 Bertrand Russell on Education

Unit 13 Spots
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Social Aggregates and Cultural Influences in the Rise of Sport
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Good Sports
Passage 2 Spectator Sports Reflect America's Melting Pot
Passage 3 How David Stern and Michael Jordan May Have Destroyed

Unit 14 Leisure Reading(Ⅳ)
Passage 1 King Edward Ⅷ Abdicated for Love
Passage 2 Love Is a Fallacy (Part Ⅰ )
Passage 3 Love Is a Fallacy (Part　Ⅱ )
Passage 4 An Excerpt from Death in the Afternoon

Unit 15 Ectertainment
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
The Beatles
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Is the Web the Future of Entertainment?
Passage 2 A History of Oscar's Ups and Downs
Passage 3 Soap Opera

Unit 16 Book Review
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)
Passage I Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Passage 2 Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
Passage 3 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Unit 17 Conputer and Internet
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Computer Science
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension ( Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Life on the Net
Passage 2 Alienation and the Internet
Passage 3 Crime in Cyberspace

Unit 18 Architecure
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
European Architecture: History and Styles
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 The Castles of Europe
Passage 2 Islamic Architecture
Passage 3 Modern Architecture: Reaching for the Sky

Unit 19 Management
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Management Strategies in Competing with Japan
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Chaos Theory of Management
Passage 2 Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory
Passage 3 Scenario Planning

Unit 20 Psychology
Part Ⅰ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Freudian Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Passage 1 Dreams: Night School
Passage 2 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Passage 3 The New Word on Gossip
Keys
Refereces