大学英语阅读（1）-新版

刘毅等

目录

  • 1 Unit 1. American Farm Life
    • 1.1 Lead-in. Farm life in the United States and Britain.
    • 1.2 General Reading. Mr. Doherty Builds His Dream Llife
    • 1.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 1.4 Reading for Writing. Structure of a Paragraph
    • 1.5 Text Analysis. Cultural Terms and Topic Sentence
    • 1.6 Exercises
  • 2 Unit 2. Civil-Rights Heroes
    • 2.1 Lead-in. Black Slaves in America
    • 2.2 General reading.The Freedom Givers
    • 2.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 2.4 Reading for Writing. A Biographical Story
    • 2.5 Text analysis. Cutural terms, Text Organization and Direct Speech
    • 2.6 Exercises
  • 3 Unit 3. Security
    • 3.1 Lead-in. Security in the United States
    • 3.2 General Reading.The Land of the Lock
    • 3.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 3.4 Reading for Writing. A Contrast Between the Past and the Present
    • 3.5 Text Analysis. Keywords, Contrast and Irony
    • 3.6 Exercises
  • 4 Unit 4.The Human Touch
    • 4.1 Lead-in: O. Henry and His Short Stories
    • 4.2 General reading. The Last Leaf
    • 4.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 4.4 Reading for Writing.The Beginning of a story.
    • 4.5 Text Analysis: Structure of Short Story
    • 4.6 Exercises
  • 5 Unit 5. Making a Living
    • 5.1 Lead-in: Bill Porter as a Salesman
    • 5.2 General Reading. Life of a Salesman
    • 5.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 5.4 Reading for Writing: Writing about the Life of a Person
    • 5.5 Text Analysis: Feature Story
    • 5.6 Exercises
  • 6 Unit 6.
    • 6.1 Lead-in
    • 6.2 General Reading. Electronic Waste
    • 6.3 Text Explanations and Supplementary Readings
    • 6.4 Reading for Writing
    • 6.5 Text Analysis
    • 6.6 Exercises
    • 6.7 Appendix-1
      • 6.7.1 country life
      • 6.7.2 living in C&C
      • 6.7.3 preserves
      • 6.7.4 Ivy league
      • 6.7.5 dogsled
      • 6.7.6 Insurance
      • 6.7.7 trade of slavers
      • 6.7.8 quaker
      • 6.7.9 religion
      • 6.7.10 modern day slavery
    • 6.8 Appendix-2
      • 6.8.1 crime and security
      • 6.8.2 land of the lock
      • 6.8.3 airport security
      • 6.8.4 rape whistles
      • 6.8.5 count the carriages in her funeral
      • 6.8.6 port wine
      • 6.8.7 wicked I was
    • 6.9 Appendix-3
      • 6.9.1 door-to-door salesman
      • 6.9.2 handicap
      • 6.9.3 ads
      • 6.9.4 rights
Reading for Writing: Writing about the Life of a Person

Reading for Writing

After having studied this section, you’ll study the story in detail to learn some techniques about how to write a short biography, that is, an account of a person’s day. And then you’ll write a biography on your own.Your writing should be within the limits of 120-150 words.