出國留學英語閱讀強化教程：提高

Unit 1 Education ....................................................................................1 \n
Section I Focus on Reading Speed...................................................................2 \n
Section II Text A: Preparation for Practical Life .............................................8 \n
Section III Text B: “Boxed In” Black ................................................................ 21 \n
Unit 2 Language and Intelligence........................................................35 \n
Section I Focus on Previewing ...................................................................... 36 \n
Section II Text A: Body Language .................................................................. 39 \n
Section III Text B: Super-Intelligence and the Singularity ........................... 54 \n
Unit 3 Finance ......................................................................................69 \n
Section I Focus on Connotations and Denotations ................................... 70 \n
Section II Text A: Funny Money .................................................................... 72 \n
Section III Text B: Buying Tomorrow ............................................................. 81 \n
Unit 4 Culture ......................................................................................97 \n
Section I Focus on Collocations ................................................................... 98 \n
Section II Text A: As to Humanness ............................................................ 101 \n
Section III Text B: “Gypsy” Myth and Romani Reality \n
—New Evidence for Romani History ........................................ 113 \n
Unit 5 Journalism ..............................................................................125 \n
Section I Focus on Allusion......................................................................... 126 \n
Section II Text A: Feak Show—History with Lightning............................ 130 \n
Section III Text B: Fun House—Swingin’ on the Flippity-Flop ................. 141 \n
Unit 6 Globalization ..........................................................................153 \n
Section I Focus on Idioms ........................................................................... 154 \n
Section II Text A: Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance .............. 156 \n
Section III Text B: Th e Emergence of a European Economy, \n
Tenth Th rough Th irteenth Centuries ........................................ 167 \n
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Unit 7 Feminism ................................................................................179 \n
Section I Focus on Figurative Language .................................................... 180 \n
Section II Text A: Making the Cut ............................................................... 184 \n
Section III Text B: Reading Jane Austen’s Final, \n
Unfi nished Novel .......................................................................... 194 \n
Unit 8 Philosophy ..............................................................................203 \n
Section I Focus on Inductive Reasoning and \n
Deductive Reasoning ................................................................... 204 \n
Section II Text A: Th e Birth of Tragedy ....................................................... 207 \n
Section III Text B: My Adventure with Nietzsche ....................................... 220 \n
Unit 9 Politics and Sport ...................................................................231 \n
Section I Focus on Summarizing ................................................................ 232 \n
Section II Text A: Th e Conservative Tradition ........................................... 234 \n
Section III Text B: Th e Great Game .............................................................. 247 \n
Unit 10 Morality ................................................................................257 \n
Section I Focus on Synthesizing Sources .................................................. 258 \n
Section II Text A: Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds .......................... 261 \n
Section III Text B : Th e Long Goodbye ......................................................... 273