大学英语(修订本)精读.第二册

Unit 1
Text： Is There Life on Earth?
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Reading Attack Skill I
--Using Word Part Clues for Word Meanings
Passage： Fresh Air Will Kill You
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Coherence
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing

UNIT 2
Text： The Dinner Party
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Reading Attack Skill I1 （Follow-up）
--More Prefixes and Suffixes
Passage： An Important Lesson
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Combining Sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions and Conjunctive Adverbs
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Smog-Eating Cars

UNIT 3
Text： Lessons from Jefferson
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： （Reviewing Work）
Passage： The American Ideal of a Great Leader
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Developing a Paragraph from the Topic Sentence
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
REVISION EXERCISES 1

UNIT 4
Text： My First Job
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Reading Comprehension Skill Ⅲ
--Making Inferences While Reading
Passage： Black Boy
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Combining Sentences with Subordinating Conjunctions or Relative Pronouns
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
A Star Is Born

UNIT 5
Text： The Professor and the Yo-Yo
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Reading Beyond the Lines
Passage： Alfred Nobel -- A Man of Contrasts
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Rearranging Sentences in Logical Order
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
TEST YOURSELF： Test Paper 1

UNIT 6
Text： The Making of a Surgeon
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Reading for Implied Meanings
Passage： A Doctor on Night-call
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Parallelism
Part 11 Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Pigs As Organ Donors?

UNIT 7
Text ： Theres Only Luck
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Reading Comprehension Skill IV
--Drawing Conclusions While Reading
Passage： 38 Who Saw Murder Didnt Call the Police
Guided Writing
Paragraph Writing

UNIT 8
Text： Honesty： Is It Going out of Style?
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Review of Drawing Conclusions While Reading
Passage： A Question of Honor
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Transition I
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Blood Pressure Lower for Working Women?
REVISION EXERCISES 2

UNIT 9
Text： What Is Intelligence， Anyway?
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： Reading Comprehension Skill V
--Understanding Figurative Language
Passage： Angels on a Pin
Guided Writing
Part I Skill： Transition II
Part Ⅱ Paragraph Writing

UNIT 10
Text： Profits of Praise
Study & Practice
Reading Activity
Skill： A General Review of Reading Skills
Passage： My Wonderful Lousy Poem
Guided Writing
Paragraph Writing
Supplementary Reading in Popular Science
Crazy Weather from the Bottom of the Sea
TEST YOURSELF： Test Paper 2
APPENDIX 1： Key to Revision Exercises 1
Key to Revision Exercises 2
APPENDIX 2： Key to Test Paper 1
Key to Test Paper 2
APPENDIX 3： Key to Exercises in Supplementary Readings
APPENDIX 4： Glossary