新大學英語聽說教程1

前言

　　歷史跨人21世紀之后，伴隨著中華民族的發(fā)展和崛起，更好地培養(yǎng)具有高水平的英語應用能力的新世紀人才便成為我國大學英語教學所肩負的重要任務，也是時代所賦予的使命。如果說，在人類開始步入現(xiàn)代社會的19世紀，馬克思說“外國語是人生奮斗的一種武器”，歌德說“只通曉一種語言的人無法真正理解他的母語”。主要是著眼于掌握和使用一門外語對作為個體的人的作用和意義.那么在當今社會各個領域都日益全球化、多元的民族文化融合交織的復雜背景下。無論是個人還是國家和民族，掌握并運用一門作為國際通用語言的外語，對其存在與發(fā)展的重要性都是不言而喻的。　　在教育領域，教材歷來是教學的重要基礎，教材的質量與特征也在很大程度上決定教學效果。就大學英語教學而言，教材的不斷更新和建設歷來是促進教學改革、提高教學質量的重要基礎和先行任務。在國家的宏觀政策方面，國家教育部和全國高校外語教學指導委員會長期以來一直堅定推行大學英語教學改革，制定并頒布了新時期的《大學英語課程教學要求》，為大學英語教材的編寫及其教學工作提供了指導與依據(jù)。在上述背景下，北京大學教材建設委員會重點立項“大學英語”教材建設，北京大學出版社具體組織、策劃了本套《大學英語立體化網絡化系列教材》的編寫和出版工作，并被教育部批準為普通高等教育“十一五”國家級規(guī)劃教材?！　∽鳛椤洞髮W英語立體化網絡化系列教材》的重要組成部分，《新大學英語系列教材》原由美國最大的教育出版社之一Houghton Mifflin出版社刊行，其主要特色是：基于目前全球化的教育背景，在教材內容中注重培養(yǎng)國際化視野，傳授綜合性的學術知識，循序漸進地提高英語基礎和應用能力。2009年，北京大學出版社將該教材引入國內后，我們根據(jù)國家教育部和全國高校外語教學指導委員會制定的《大學英語課程教學要求》，結合當前國內高校英語教學的普遍現(xiàn)狀，對原教材進行了全面修訂，酌情刪節(jié)和補充，旨在保留其主要內容與特征的基礎上，充分體現(xiàn)我國大學英語教學的宗旨和特色。

內容概要

本系列教材由北大外國語學院副院長劉樹森教授、清華大學英語系副主任劉世生教授聯(lián)合總主編，對原版引進的聽說教材進行針對國內“三本”院校的本土化改編。本教材是典型的貫徹了“任務依托式”教學理念的大學英語教材，在美國主要針對社區(qū)大學中母語為非英語國家的移民學生，符號高教司關于大學英語教學改革及4、6級考試改革中重視聽說的精神。

書籍目錄

CHAPTER 1 The Power of Music / 1 ACADEMIC FOCUS: HUMANITIES - MUSIC CHAPTER 2 Nutrition and Human Health / 19 ACADEMIC FOCUS: SCIENCE - NUTRITION CHAPTER 3 Themes of Geography / 40 ACADEMIC FOCUS: SOCIAL SCIENCE - GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER 4 Are You Getting the Sleep You Need? / 126 ACADEMIC FOCUS: SCIENCE - HUMAN BIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER 5 Laughter Is the Best Medicine / 87 ACADEMIC FOCUS: SCIENCE AND SOCIAL SCIENCE - PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, AND MEDICINE CHAPTER 6 Google: A Business Dream Come True / 115 ACADEMIC FOCUS: GENERAL BUSINESS - BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY Appendices

章節(jié)摘錄

　　2. Eating Better Than OrganicBy JOHN CLOUD　　A selection of fresh vegetables from the Windflower Farm in upstate New York, near theVermont border.　　Not long ago I had an apple problem. Wavering in the produce section of a Manhattangrocery store, I was unable to decide between an organic apple and a nonorganic apple （whichwas labeled conventional, since that sounds better than "sprayed with pesticides that might killyou"）.　It shouldn't have been a tough choice——who wants to eat pesticide residue？——but theorganic apples had been grown in California.　The conventional ones were from right here inNew York State.　I know I've been listening to too much npr because I started wondering:How much Middle Eastern off did it take to get that California apple to me？　Which farmershould I support——the one who rejected pesticides in California or the one who was,　in someromantic sense, a neighbor？ Most important, didn't the apple's taste suffer after the fruit wascrated and refrigerated and jostled for thousands of miles？　　In the end I bought both apples. （They were both good, although the California one hada mealy bit, possibly from its journey.） It's only recently that I had noticed more locally grownproducts in the supermarket, but when I got home I discovered that the organic-vs.-localdebate has become one of the liveliest in the food world. Last year Wal-Mart began offeringmore organic products——those grown without pesticides, antibiotics, irradiation and so on——andthe big company's expansion into a once alternative food culture has been a source of deepconcern, and predictable backlash, among early organic adopters.　　Nearly a quarter of American shoppers now buy organic products once a week, up from17% in 2000. But for food purists, "local" is the new "organic," the new ideal that promiseshealthier bodies and a healthier planet. Many chefs, food writers and politically minded eatersare outraged that　"Big Organic"　firms now use the same industrial-size farming andlong-distance-shipping methods as conventional agribusiness. "Should I assume that I have aGod-given right to access the entire earth's bounty, however far away some of its produce isgrown？" asks ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan in his 2002 memoir, Coming Home to Eat:The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. Nabhan predicted my apple problem when hevacillated over some organic pumpkin canned hundreds of miles from his Arizona home.　"Ifyou send it halfway around the world before it is eaten," he mused, "an organic food stillmay be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system？"　　……

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