《科技英语阅读实用教程/高校专门用途英语ESP系列教材》系统介绍科技英语的语言特点及科技文献的阅读技巧与方法，通过各种科技文体的阅读实践，使学生掌握常用的阅读技能并达到一定的熟练程度。
全书共12单元，每单元由3部分组成。部分“讲座”，主要讲解科技文献的阅读技巧和方法。第二部分“阅读”，课文内容突出中西方科技史特色，介绍人类发展进程中各个时期科学和技术的发展、科技大发明和大发现、科学家故事等。第三部分“拓展阅读”，目的是给学生提供更多的阅读实践机会；同时，通过大量阅读增加词汇量，开阔视野。
《科技英语阅读实用教程/高校专门用途英语ESP系列教材》具有技巧与实践相结合、知识性与实用性相结合、系统性与针对性相结合的特色，适合作为高校非英语专业学生的科技英语阅读教材，也可供广大科技人员和科技英语爱好者阅读参考。

Unit One Historical Development of Science and Technology
Part A Lecture 了解科技英语的语言特点
Part B Reading Technological Evolution of Humankind
Part C Extended Reading Invention of Wheel
Unit Two Ancient Civilizations
Part A Lecture提高科技英语阅读理解能力
Part B Reading Ancient Technology
Part C Extended Reading Development of Civilization
Unit Three History of Science in Early Cultures
Part A Lecture掌握科技英语文献的阅读方法
Part B Reading Science in the Greek World
Part C Extended Reading Plato and Aristotle
Unit Four History of Science and Technology in Ancient China
Part A Lecture确定中心思想
Part B Reading Science and Technology of the Tang Dynasty
Part C Extended Reading Science in Ancient China
Unit Five Science and Technology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Part A Lecture 辨认事实与细节
Part B Reading Medieval Science and Technology
Part C Extended Reading Johannes Gutenberg and His Invention of Movable Type Printing
Unit Six Impact of Science in Europe
Part A Lecture 识别逻辑衔接词
Part B Reading New Ideas During the Scientific Revolution
Part C Extended Reading Science in the Age of Enlightenment
Unit Seven Industrial Revolution
Part A Lecture 识别段落类型
Part B Reading The Steam Engine-A New Source of Power
Part C Extended Reading Machine Tools
Unit Eight Modern Science and Technology （Ⅰ）
Part A Lecture 了解衔接与连贯手段的使用
Part B Reading Science and Technology in the Electrical Age
Part C Extended Reading Development of Natural Sciences
Unit Nine Modern Science and Technology （Ⅱ）
Part A Lecture 猜测词义
Part B Reading Chips and the Internet
Part C Extended Reading In 1900，They Never Imagined
Unit Ten Modern Development in China
Part A Lecture 推理
Part B Reading Modern Development in China
Part C Extended Reading Yuan Longping-Father of Hybrid Rice
Unit Eleven Scientific Discoveries and Inventions
Part A Lecture 结论
Part B Reading Technology's Ubiquitous Reach
Part C Extended Reading The Telephone and Its Inventor
Unit Twelve Great Men and Women
Part A Lecture 判定作者的观点、态度和语气
Part B Reading Three Great Physicists
Part C Extended Reading Madame Curie and Radium
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