《英语阅读步步高 3 阅读与欣赏》

Unit One1

Passage 1How Life Began1

Passage 2 A Night on Moorland3

Passage 3 Henry Ford and American Automobile8

World8

Passage 4 Telephone and Communication11

Passage 5 Money13

Passage 1 The Car in the 21st Century17

Unit Two17

Passage 2To Types of People22

Passage 325

Passage 4 Pressure:As Molecules Collide27

Passage 5 Mary McLeod Bethune30

Unit Three37

Passage 137

Passage 240

Passage 342

Passage 4Reflecting on Light45

Passage 5 Willa Cather48

Unit Four56

Passage 156

Passage 258

Passage 3How Heat Is Transferred?62

Passage 4 Facts about Dreams66

Passage 5 Ernest Hemingway72

Unit Five79

Passage 1Another Test:Bankruptcy79

Passage 282

Passage 3 The Danger of Drugs85

Passage 4 The Question of Ethics88

Passage 5 Thomas Jefferson95

Unit Six106

Passage 1106

Passage 2108

Passage 3110

Passage 4Boy Dives of the Philippines113

Passage 5 Mark Twain(Samnel LanghorneClemens)120

Passage 1132

Unit Seven132

Passage 2135

Passage 3Where There s Smoke,There s Fire137

Passage 4 Helping Children When a Loved One Dies …140

Passage 5 Abraham Lincoln148

Unit Eight158

Passage 1The Atom158

Passage 2 Televison161

Passage 3 Heat Pumps163

Passage 4 Cloning168

Passage 5 George Washington Carver174

Unit Nine182

Passage 1The Magic of a Magnet182

Passage 2186

Passage 3 Sunless World188

Passage 4 Your Risk of a Heart Attack193

Passage 5 Frank Lloyd Wright198

Passage 1 Weather or Not205

Unit Ten205

Passage 2UFOs209

Passage 3 The Brain211

Passage 4 Somebody May Be Watching You216

Passage 5 Thomas Alva Edison224

Unit Eleven231

Passage 1The Moon:A Nice Place to Visit?231

Passage 2 The Wonderful Books234

Transformed The World239

Passage 3 Electricity:The Forco That239

Passage 4 How a Ballpoint Pen Works243

Passage 5 Elizabeth Blackwell250

Unit Tweive259

Passage 1259

Passage 2The Grand Canyon261

Passage 3 Tornadoes264

Passage 4 Reading a Newspaper267

Passage 5 Stephen Crane274

Key to Exersises279