大學英語教程(4)學生用書(第三版)（簡體書）

《大學英語立體化網絡化系列教材：大學英語教程4：讀寫譯（第3版）（學生用書）》選材充分考慮大學生認知水平發展和學習心理，題材貼近大學生生活經驗和思維水平，具有一定的文化影響力和思維深度。注重內容的時代性、新穎性和趣味性；語言形式的多樣性和準確性；各單元、各分冊主題內容的系統性和連貫性。選材的難度進階標準符合現行國家四、六級水平要求範圍。·

《大學英語立體化網絡化系列教材?大學英語教程4(讀寫譯):學生用書(第3版)》為學生個性化學習和大量聲像語言互動練習提供保證，形成有聲模仿、形式記憶、內容認知、文化習得、社會交際運用等學習活動組成的反復循環語言學習過程，滿足立體化、網絡化、個性化英語教學和學習的實際需要，建立計算機課堂教學的語言多媒體教學模式。

Unit 1 ALIENLIFE
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A Extraterrestrial Life
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B UFOs
Unit 2 WILDLIFE
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A The Grizzly
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B Our Disappearing Wildlife
Unit 3 SUPERSTITION
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A Why Superstitions?
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B Astrology
Unit 4 FACING ANXIETY AND DANGER
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A One Vote for This Age of Anxiety
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B The Man in the Water
Unit 5 PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A Symptoms
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B Cure Yourself of Unhappiness
Unit 6 HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A Inspire Your Kids to Achieve
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B Changing Your Lifestyles
Unit 7 COURAGE
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A Shadows of Darkness
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B Courage Sometimes Whispers
Unit 8 WAY TO SUCCESS
Part Ⅰ Language Skill
Part Ⅱ Language in Context
Text A Why the Most Successful People in the World Fail the Most
Part Ⅲ Toward Productive Language
Text B How to Achieve Successin Life
Appendix
Vocabulary·

Astrology, the world' s oldest theory of personality, is almost universally rejected by scientists. For example, two hundred leading American and European saentists recently collaborated on a book, Objections to Astrology, in which they pointed out that astrology is based on magical thinking-such as that Mars is red, like blood, so people born under the "sign2" of Mars are aggressrve3. But some people still believe in astrology-or half-believe.
Astrology claims that there are basically twelve different human types, and that finding out the astrological4 sign of a person allows one to describe and explain that person. "Claire is an Aquarius5. She acts that way because she is an Aquarius."It even-attempts to predict what a person will do.
Astrology began in the Near East more than five thousand years ago. Ancient peoples charted6 the course of the planets,the stars, and our sun and moon. They noticed that some very important events in their lives-for example, annual floods and changing seasons-were marked by changes in the patterns of the heavenly bodies7. Some early astronomers8 thought: "The heavens seem to control the weather and the crops-surely they also control human lives!"
In astrology "the heavens" are divided into twelve "houses," each controlled by a particular constellation9. The fate and acts of each human being are controlled by how the stars were arranged at the moment of that person's birth. Since fate is deternuned at the moment of birth, a good astrologer10 should be able to predict the exact course of any person' s life.Astrologers try to make up a precise map of "the heavens" as they were on the exact day and hour of the person's birth.This is called a horoscope11, which means "map of the hour."
DO ASTROLOGERS REALLY USE ASTROLOGY?
When an astrologer makes up a horoscope for a person,does the astrologer stick strictly to business? Does the astrologer pay attention only to the matching of birth hour with the positions of "the stars," or do other things make a difference12? In other words, do astrologers really practice astrology, or do other factors influence the predictions they make?
Two researchers selected eighteen astrologers who advertised that they do horoscopes by mail. The psychologists13 wrote letters to the astrologers that were supposedly14 coming from a couple who were thinking about getting married and were asking for advice about whether to marry or not. All of the letters gave the same information about the birth hour of each person. Hal.f of the letters added a sentence noting that the couple had been having a lot of arguments. The other half of the letters added a line stating that the couple really enjoyed being together and got along very well. So half the letters were negative and half were positive in their tone.Whether the astrologer got a positive or negative letter was determined by flipping15 a coin.