《科技英语报刊选读》的目标读者为具有大学英语四级水平以上的非英语专业本科生、英语专业高年级学生以及中高级英语学习者。
《科技英语报刊选读》结合专门用途英语（ESP）教学的趋势，旨在搭建学生由基础英语通往专业英语的桥梁。《科技英语报刊选读》遴选了十个常见的主题，涵盖物理、化学、生物、医学、环境、能源、气候、软件和建筑等当前比较热门的话题。课文既有严谨的科技成果报道，又有科幻色彩般的对未来新技术的探索，兼顾知识性和趣味性，满足了广大英语学习者的多样化需求。
Unit One Astrophysics
Text A In Search for Alien Life， Researchers Enlist Human Minds
Text B Warp Drive
Unit Two Climatology
Text A The Weekend of 100 Tornadoes: Are Killer
Storms Being Fueled by Climate Change?
Text B Experts Argue Global Warming's Impact on Sandy's Unusual Path to N.J.
Unit Three Renewable Energy
Text A Is the Future of Clean Energy a Pond
of Algae in Every Backyard?
Text B Sweet Hydrogen: How Sugar Could Help Satisfy the World's Energy Needs
Unit Four Chemistry
Text A Plant-Powered Plastics
Text B Full-Body Taste
Unit Five Medical Science
Text A Chemo in Pregnancy Does Not Necessarily
Harm Baby， Says Study
Text B Drug Trial Gives Hope of Longer Life to Women Fighting Ovarian Cancer
Unit Six Dynamics
Text A Solar-Powered Travel: Opening Up New Routes Across Sky， Sea and Land
Text B Hybrids Under the Hood
Unit Seven Paleontology
Text A Life in the Sea Found Its Fate
in a Paroxysm of Extinction
Text B An Underground Fossil Forest Offers Clueson Climate Change
Unit Eight Nanotechnology
Text A Fine-tuning Nanotech to Target Cancer
Text B Nanotechnology Can Launch a New Age ofSpace Exploration
Unit Nine Civil Engineering
Text A Prefabs Sprout as Britain Embraces
Timber-Frame Housing
Text B A Bridge Built to Sway When the Earth Shakes
Unit Ten Software Engineering
Text A Microsoft Windows 8 Consumer Preview-Review
Text B Katrina Changed Everything: New Software
Predicts How Water Will Spread
Appendix Key to Exercises
精品教材 更多
