《高级英语阅读/高等教育英语专业教材》题材广泛，包括政治、法律、道德、伦理、爱情、金融、市场、营销、网络、新闻、励志、传奇、危机、冒险、环境、宇宙等。全书共16单元，每个单元包括生词表、词组列表、课文导入、课文、课文注释、要点分析、练习题、思维训练等8个模块。单词和词组采用英汉双解形式，并有例句；课文中的长句和难句都在注释中作了详细分析和说明；课文的主题结构、写作手法等在要点分析中进行了归纳和提炼；习题包括词汇题、正误判断题、简答题、释义题、翻译题等，形式多样，有利于英语综合能力的训练和提高。
Lesson One Alienation and the Internet
网络离间了人群？
Lesson Two The Story of an Hour
阴差阳错一时间
Lesson Three Michael Dell's Two—Billion—Dollar Dream
迈克尔·戴尔的梦想——20亿美元
Lesson Four The Cult of Busyness
崇拜“忙碌”
Lesson Five The Thrill of Risk
冒险的刺激性
Lesson Six The Truth about TV News
电视新闻的真实性
Lesson Seven End of an Era
一个时代的终结
Lesson Eight A World We Have Not Known
一个未知的世界
Lesson Nine Easy Money
易得之财
Lesson Ten Morals in the Rat Race
老鼠赛跑的教训
Lesson Eleven The Promotional Mix
促销组合
Lesson Twelve How to Cope with Crisis
如何应对危机
Lesson Thirteen Is Love an Art？
爱是一门艺术吗？
Lesson Fourteen A License to Kill
杀人执照
Lesson Fifteen Empowering Species
给物种以生存权
Lesson Sixteen The Nature of Space and Time
时间与空间的本质
5.Take action.Businessman Jim Bluett felt helpless when a heart attack nearly killed him at age 31.Doctors said that if he didn't alter his habits and shed some of his 285 pounds， he might not be able to walk up stairs or even play with his two kids， "I didn't like the idea of becoming a cardiac cripple， " Jim says， "I knew it was time to make some changes."
Jim quit smoking， gave up coffee and went on a diet.Then with the advice of his cardiologist， he took up walking and， later， jogging.A year and a half later， Jim had lost 125 pounds and was in such sound health that he ran a marathon.
Jim might have followed any number of routes to recovery.However， as Prof.Nancy K.Schlossberg of the University of Maryland at College Park points out in her book Overwhelmed： Copin，g with Life's Ups and Downs： "It's not the commitment to a particular strategy that makes the difference， it's the commitment to mobilizing your resources to trying new things."
Not everyone benefits from every crisis， but many who go through the tempering fires of change successfully emerge better prepared to meet whatever challenges come their way.
Grace Shafir， who turned her faltering business around and later remarried， remembers that she once worried a lot about little things."But after Jere died， I learned to stop being afraid.I realized that once I'd overcome the worst life had to offer， I could handle anyt.hing."
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