图书信息：
书    名：大学英语阅读教程：社会篇
作    者：李新萍 陈俐丽
出 版 社：对外经济贸易大学出版社
出版日期：2008年5月1日

内容简介：
 大学英语阅读教程:社会篇》试图从不同地域、不同文化背景的视角，向大家展示目前社会上人们关注的大问题和小问题，以及对这些问题的不同看法。全书分为27个单元，每个单元两篇课文，附有注释和理解练习、语言练习。其中理解练习既照顾对全文的把握又考察对词汇等细节的理解；语言练习也根据其难易程度设计不同的形式。 该书可供各大专院校作为教材使用，也可供从事相关工作的人员作为参考用书使用。

目录：
Unit 1 Child Education
TEXT A Should You Homeschool Your Child？
TEXT B Teach Your Children Well

Unit 2 Health
TEXT A Can Work Kill？
TEXT B Mental Health

Unit 3 Your Ancestry
TEXT A So you Think You’re English？ （Part Ⅰ）
TEXT B So You Think You’re English？ （Part Ⅱ）

Unit 4 Parenthood
TEXT A Is There a Kipper in the House？
TEXT B You’re on Your Own Now

Unit 5 Environment
TEXT A A Film That Could Warm Up the Debate on Global Wanning
TEXT B No， it’s Not a Ski Resort —— it’s the South Pole

Unit 6 The Future of Money
TEXT A Paying by Mobile，That’ll do Nicely
TEXT B A Cash Call

Unit 7 Who’s to Blame
TEXT A America’s Tragedy
TEXT B Public Anger Will Follow Our Sorrow

Unit 8 Learning about the Past
TEXT A Where History Isn’t Bunk
TEXT B The Truth in Chains

Unit 9 Time and Space
TEXT A Shaping the Future
TEXT B Giant Step to Discovering Alien Life

Unit 10 Urbanization
TEXT A Head for the Hills but a Heart for the City
TEXT B China’s Chicago

Unit 11 Happiness
TEXT A The Secret to Happiness
TEXT B How to Plant the Seeds of Happiness

Unit 12 Women’s Role
TEXT A Breaking the Glass Ceiling is Harder Abroad
TEXT B I’ll Tell You Why Women Are Running Out of Men to Marry

Unit 13 Internet Security
TEXT A Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction （Part Ⅰ）
TEXT B Fighting the Worms of Mass Destruction （Part Ⅱ）

Unit 14 Character Education
TEXT A Character Education
TEXT B Creating a Framework for Excellence

Unit 15 What’s in the News
TEXT A The Month When Our Culture Collapses Into a Pile of Preferences
TEXT B Crime and Punishment

Unit 16 Scientific Attitude
TEXT A Citation Analysis
TEXT B After Dolly: The Future of Cloning

Unit 17 Health and Medicine
TEXT A Are Yanks Sicker Than Brats？ Or Are We Just a Bunch of Hypochondriacs？
TEXT B World’s Best Medical Care？

Unit 18 Human Nature
TEXT A We’re Born to Be Wild
TEXT B The Honesty Virus

Unit 19 Marketing
TEXT A Forces Affecting Modem Marketing
TEXT B The Impact of Advertising

Unit 20 Education
TEXT A Exams Work Because They’re Scary
TEXT B We are Obsessed With Having Fun

Unit 21 Sports Scandal
TEXT A If You Rig It，They Will Come —— How Capitalism Just Might Save Italian Soccer
TEXT B The Secret Steroid

Unit 22 Gender Roles
TEXT A Who’s the Daddy？
TEXT B Just Remember ——This Is a Boy Thing

Unit 23 Terrorism
TEXT A Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers
TEXT B The Terrorism Index

Unit 24 Future Life
TEXT A The Future of Books
TEXT B 2050 -and Immortality Is Within Our Grasp

Unit 25 Aging
TEXT A The Aging Boom
TEXT B Think Yourself Lucky

Unit 26 The Rights to Live and Die
TEXT A Euthanasia
TEXT B Diana， Princess of Wales， Divided the Nation

Unit 27 School and Society
TEXT A What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace
TEXT B How to Get On in the Real World
Appendix 1 Key to Exercises
Appendix 2 Glossary